Friday 14th May - Hethpool (Cheviots)
Cicerone Norhumberland Guidebook Walk#1
(Hethpool, Old Yeavering, College Burn) 6.33 Miles, 2hrs 40 mins.
We decided to round off our trip with a short-ish walk in the Cheviot hills further north. The one we chose was a fairly low level valley walk, with views of the Cheviot hills rather than up and from them.
Weather: Cloudy with showers.
We parked at Hethpool, just up from a row of cottages in a largish car park. The track continued on but not general access for motor vehicles.
We walked back up the road past the cottages and tok a right onto grassy tracks.
The route was fairly level across grassy tracks and fields with open views of the cheviot hillsides across the valley.
We joined a road past Old Yeavering and this led us into the village of Kirknewton.
The statue head below was atop a gateway.
It then began to rain, so waterproofs were donnned and we trudged through quite narrow grass paths and gorse/shrubs in the rain.
The rain did ease after a while and the path adjavent to college burn is quite pleasant, but would have been more so without the rain.
Cicerone Norhumberland Guidebook Walk#1
(Hethpool, Old Yeavering, College Burn) 6.33 Miles, 2hrs 40 mins.
We decided to round off our trip with a short-ish walk in the Cheviot hills further north. The one we chose was a fairly low level valley walk, with views of the Cheviot hills rather than up and from them.
Weather: Cloudy with showers.
We parked at Hethpool, just up from a row of cottages in a largish car park. The track continued on but not general access for motor vehicles.
We walked back up the road past the cottages and tok a right onto grassy tracks.
The route was fairly level across grassy tracks and fields with open views of the cheviot hillsides across the valley.
We joined a road past Old Yeavering and this led us into the village of Kirknewton.
Quite a bit of road/verge walking, but not too many vehicles using the road.
once through the village we ate our packed lunch (and soup) at a road bridge over a stream/burn and continued on.
The statue head below was atop a gateway.
It then began to rain, so waterproofs were donnned and we trudged through quite narrow grass paths and gorse/shrubs in the rain.
The rain did ease after a while and the path adjavent to college burn is quite pleasant, but would have been more so without the rain.
We arrived back at the car park, having enjoyed most of this walk, spoilt a little by the rain towards the last few miles.
Our Walk Score : 6.5/10
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