Northumberland

40 Coast and Country Walks

History has left its mark on England's rugged northern frontier and the prehistoric hillforts, ancient castles, fortified bastle houses, ruined abbeys and, of course, Emperor Hadrian's great wall, all testify to a turbulent past. The forty short walks in this book visit many of Northumberland's famed historical attractions including Holy Island, bamburgh and Dunstanburgh - as well as many less well-known ones - on a tour which also takes in rolling moorland, craggy hillside, verdant gorges, beautiful farmland and a coastline packed with pretty harbours, hidden coves, vast sandy beaches and windswept dunes.

Walks Include

Berwick, Wooler and Bamburgh

• Berwick Walls
• Flodden Battlefield Trail
• Yeavering Bell
• Humbleton Hill
• Holy Island
• Budle Bay
• Bamburgh circular
• Beadnell to Seahouses

Alnwick, Alnmouth and Warkworth

• Tour of Alnwick
• Brizlee Tower
• Dunstanburgh Castle
• Craster and Howick
• Around Almouth
• Alnmouth to Warkworth
• Warkworth Castle and the Hermitage

Breamish, Coquetdale and Rathbury

• Breamish Hillfort Trail
• Thrunton Woods
• The Drake Stone
• The Lady's Well
• Rothbury to Thropton
• The Carriage Drive
• The Old Railway Line
• Lakes of Cragside
• Selby's Cove and Simonside

Kielder, Hadrian's Wall and Hexham

• Hareshaw Linn
• Black Middens and the Reivers Trail
• Kielder Water and Bull Crag
• Kielder Observatory
• Walltown Quarry and the Nine Nicks
• Housesteads and Vindolanda
• Haltwhistle Burn to Cawfields
• Bardon Mill and Allen Banks
• The Meeting of the Waters
• Swallowship Pool

Morpeth and the southeast

• Wallington Hall
• Bolam Lake and Shaftoe Crags
• Morpeth Loops
• Plessey Woods
• Druridge Bay
• Ashington to Newbiggin-by-the-Sea