No TR from Saturday this week, the weather was rather wet and I only took one pic, this one of the River Greta from Fitz Park, getting alarmingly close to the riverside buildings. Thankfully the river level has gone down now.
We walked about four miles in total with half time spent in Mrs F's eating cake and drinking tea. The vegan chocolate cake is just as lovely as their other cakes
We were too late up on Sunday to get to the Lakes so we got the bus to Haydon Bridge and we would end up in Hexham. We have done this walk a few times but not for a while . I thought it was about 10 miles at the most from what I remembered.
The view from the climb up to The Tofts
It wasn't a bad day, very windy but we had blue sky and sunshine
Beefy and Squeaky on the lane from The Tofts
Babby Lambs
On the byeway to Lanefoot
The view from the byeway
It was very windy here and it seemed to get worse as we descended along the byeway.
We stopped for some lunch sheltering behind a wall. We 'd only been walking for an hour and 15 minutes but there was shelter here, we might not get any further on.
The byeway from our lunch stop
More babby lambs near Newbrough
We were getting a bit tired on the climb up to Prudhamstone House, there are lots of ups and downs on this walk. The rain started falling as we were on another climb, up to the Laverick Plantation. It didn't last long however and the views that had disappeared were seen again once the clag lifted.
We did get a few rainbows
Beefy and Squeaky on the path alongside the Laverick Plantation
The view from the Laverick Plantation
Squeaky could have a run about off the lead once we got to the park at Hexham. She tired quicker than normal with the long walk we'd done.
We got to Hexham and sat in the waiting room at the bus station for our bus, resting our tired legs. I measured the walk at home. 19.8km and about 400m ascent. No wonder we were tired, I must check these walks properly because my memory is useless these days, it was over 12 miles not 10!. The route was Haydon Bridge - The Tofts - Page Croft - Byeway by Fell House - Lanefoot - Stonecroft - Newbrough Hall - Prudamstone House - Whinny Hill - Laverick Plantation - Bridge End - Riverside path to Hexham.
