Teesdale Way – Dufton to Cow Green (Section 1) – 28th February 2025 John McCullagh of the Teesside Walking & Talking Society kindly sent me this report of their day out walking the Teesdale Way’s most challenging section, from Dufton, in Cumbria, to Cow Green, in the wilds of Upper Teesdale on 28th February 2025. […]
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White Kirkley Footbridge I’ve recently been advised by Paul N from Northumberland LDWA that the footbridge over the Bollihope Burn (pictured) in Fineburn Quarry, White Kirkley, on Section 5 of the Weardale Way has been closed due to its being unsafe. I visited on 13/02/25 and found the advice to be correct with an advisory diversion
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Harperley Park Footbridge (Section 7) I’ve been advised by Durham County Council’s Access & Rights of Way team that the footbridge over the beck in Harperley Dene (pictured) approaching Wadley Farm, has been closed temporarily due to its condition. A signed diversion using other public rights of way and a short section of the A68 is
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Sunday 26th March 2023 On the day the clocks went forward, with spring very much in the air, we decided to drive over to Teesdale to visit High Force, England’s largest waterfall. Primarily, it was in the hope of photographing the Tees spilling into the secondary, northern, falls – an event that has so far
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I think we might have to face it: the Rookhope Inn has been closed for a couple of years now and doesn’t look like it’s about to open any time soon. When I was last up there (18/03/23) there was no activity; in fact it appeared to be derelict to all intents and purposes. I’m
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26th February 2023 Despite the promise of Spring, the weather had taken a slight turn for the worse and with me nursing a hopefully minor knee injury we decided to have a weekend ‘off’ and visit Shildon’s Locomotion Railway Museum – somewhere I’ve never been, have wanted to go for years but somehow never managed.
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Beaurepaire Manor House Translating as ‘beautiful retreat’ from the French by which it was originally known, this now ruinous building stands on a promontory above the River Browney – two miles to the west of Durham City – in what was once the Prior of Durham Monastery’s enclosed, 1,300-acre deer park. The location is still
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Visitors to Barnard Castle will be hard-pressed to miss a distinctive two-storey building acting as a roundabout at the junction of The Bank, Newgate and Market Place in Barnard Castle. Since its construction in 1747 the Market Cross – also known as the ‘Market Hall’, ‘Butter Market’ and ‘Butter Mart’ – has been used as
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If you’re walking through Teesdale on the Teesdale Way you’re bound to encounter pairs of what look like milk churns or chimney pots, split down the middle and usually rust-red in colour. Inscribed vertically on each are the names of the Teesdale parishes they mark: Middleton-in-Teesdale, Eggleston, Romaldkirk, Hunderthwaite, Cotherstone, Lartingon, Barnard Castle, Startforth, Marwood,
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We’re happy to say that the footbridge across the Rookhope Burn leading into Rookhope village at the end of Section 3 (or beginning of Section 4) is now OPEN. The bridge lies inconspicuously alongside an imposing sliding gate which, when it’s closed, might make it look like there’s no access. The Rookhope Inn however, remains
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