About Us

The Durham Cow is a personal blog promoting health and well-being through outdoor activity, specifically ‘HIKE|RUN|BIKE’ in Northern England and over the border with Scotland. Since 2013, the site has been the online home of the Weardale Way and Teesdale Way, long-distance walking trails that explore County Durham and some of its neighbours including Tyne & Wear, Teesside and Cumbria.

I started The Durham Cow in 2012 as a way to share places I love to visit in my native County Durham, and the active ways in which I do it. Very quickly this extended into Northumberland, Tyne & Wear, Yorkshire and Cumbria and over the border into Scotland. Today you’ll find regularly updated details, descriptions, maps and GPS route files for both trails together with many other excursions in this uniquely historic part of the UK.

All of the information you’ll need to tackle our routes is FREE. We fund the site in a number ways including ‘Buy me a Coffee’ donations, affiliate links, Google ‘Adsense’ advertising and by selling bespoke merchandise in our Shop. Products include essential pocket-sized GUIDE BOOKS designed to take with you on both the Weardale Way and Teesdale Way, as well as tee-shirts and mugs with which to celebrate and remember your achievements.

How We Fund This Site

We use a variety of means to generate funding for this site including Google Adsense, Amazon’s Affiliate Program; Capital One Shopping and suitable retailers registered with affiliate marketing platforms Awin and Webgains. Most, if not all of the PRODUCT links on this website will be AFFILIATE LINKS. This means that we earn a small affiliate commission ONLY if you click the link and make a purchase. There is NO ADDITIONAL COST to you. ALL linked products are known to us and fully endorsed by us.

Contact Us

We value your feedback, stories, experiences or comments regarding any aspect of the site – good or bad. The best ways to do it are by emailing us (admin@durhamcow.com) or by commenting in any of the posts on our Blog. We read them all and do our best to reply to each. Don’t forget that you can also get in touch via Facebook, I nstagram, YouTu be or Strav a.