Last week we had a few days in Northumberland, we stayed in the same cottage as last year. It’s called Whistlestop as it’s an old railway cottage in Redesmouth. It’s prefect for us, it’s comfortable and well equipped and they allow dogs…
The weather wasn’t brilliant but it wasn’t bad. It rained most days but usually in the afternoon so we walked in the morning and only once got a bit damp.
We drove up to Kielder which is a huge reservoir and forestry commision land, there’s lots of footpaths and signposted routes. This time we went up to Kielder village and walked a bit in the forest and then down to the viaduct just a short distance down river. The viaduct isn’t used anymore by trains so it’s been turned into a footbridge. The view from the top was lovely…
The following day we walked round Hadrian’s Wall, this is the Roman wall started in AD122, it runs for 73 miles from the east coast to the west coast. A surprising amount is still intact. I say surprising (apart from the fact that it is 2000 years old,) but also because for centuries it was a useful source of stone for housebuiling. There is even a village called Wall of which many earlier houses are built with stone from the wall.
We parked by Housesteads Fort and did about a 5.5 mile walk.
The geography of this area fascinates me with it’s steep escarpments…
The views were amaing, I find up her that you feel quite high up from what feels like a small hill. I think the topography is undulating so you can see a long way. Just as an aside, I read up at Keilder that from one of their nearby fells you van see both coast of Britain.
I’m trying to get fitter at the moment, lock-down and operations have taken their toll, so I bought myself a Garmin watch, it’s not one of their fancy ones but it does what I wanted (plus lot more!) It tracks my walks and then uploads the to my computer and Strava. It does give you a bit of encouragement to see the mils add up.
Anyway, I thought I might do a regular weekly slot on walks, maybe call it Wandering Wednesday. Some weeks I might have been somewhere intersting, other times it might be round my neighbourhood. We’re walking up Buckden Pike on Monday.. so watch this space!
thecraftycreek 
I love to read and see about your walking adventures.
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Many years ago I had a short walk along Hadrian’s Wall, and remember the stunning landscape around it. Thanks for reminding me of it this morning.
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It’s a very different landscape to Yorkshire, I keep meaning to look up the geography and geology of the area as it does fascinate me
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I love the scenery you share in your walks, and hearing about the places. š
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Even though the weather was not what you hoped the scenery looks pretty awesome!
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I visited Hadrian’s Wall on a school field trip when I was about 12 years old. That’s the farthest north I’ve ever been ^^
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That’s further north than a lot of people š
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lol yes I grew up in Biggin Hill, Kent. Some people there thought anything north of the Dartford Tunnel was “north” but I knew better (grandparents were from Gateshead & Middlesbrough).
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I had a friend from Epsom when I trained as a nurse in London, she’d never been further north than Watford Gap and believed me for a couple of weeks when I told her it took two days to drive to Yorkshire š
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rofl
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As you say it is amazing so much of the wall still exists. It looks beautiful even if the weather wasnāt all sunshine
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Lovely part of the country to walk in.
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It is, we’ve got the Hadrian Wall walk on our list to do one year š
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