Teesdale

Gainford to Barnard Castle - 30 March 2024 An Easter Saturday walk to Barnard Castle with the clocks going forward an hour on Easter Sunday and the weekend weather looking quite good. If that is not enough to make you think about coming out the walks are following a section of the Teesdale Way beside the River Tees for much…

Langdon Beck to Middleton-in-Teesdale - 2 September 2023 Two waterfalls, one river and a beck. The beck is called Harwood Beck but within one and a half miles from the start of the routes the beck reaches the River Tees as it comes from Cowgreen Reservoir to the west. The first waterfall we reach is High Force followed shortly after…

Gainford to Barnard Castle - 16 April 2022 Can you see Barnard Castle from Newcastle? Probably not unless you have very good eyesight. Barnard Castle's latest claim to fame was back in May 2020 when the then chief advisor of the British Prime Minister, Dominic Cummings, was discovered to have driven to the town with his family during the COVID-19…

Middleton-in-Teesdale to Bowes - 19 March 2022 These routes were originally planned as walk 7 on the 28th March 2020. Unfortunately, although we managed to do walk 6 to Alston the previous fortnight along came the pandemic and everything got cancelled. So here we are nearly two years later ready to have another go so it's better late then never.…