Definitely Craster this time......(Northumberland)
November 15th.
After last week's logistical problems we are definitely going to walk from Craster this week;
Brian, John x3., Dave, Ben, Harry and me, up the coast from the kipper village to Seahouses the Fish and Chip capital of the county.
Craster is north up the A1 to Alnwick and then follow road signs.
The portly gentleman from north of the border told us to expect cold north east breeze and showers. He was right. Two maps cover the walk: OS Explorer 332 Alnwick and Amble, OS Explorer 340 Holy Island, but using the old adage of keeping the sea on your right you could live without a map.
The familiar car park, for which there is a fee, £4 for a full day is on the right as you enter the village and is in an old quarry from which, once upon a time, road stone was carried to the harbour by a zip wire and loaded onto boats.
Another action car park for you my girls. Almost empty on a dismal November day
Breakfast, not at Tiffany's, but at....
The Shoreline café; bacon, tea and coffee. Well worth a visit
We set off, down the street, past the Jolly Fisherman pub, the kipper factory and round the edge of the small and almost empty harbour, past the row of cottages and into the fields on our way to Dunstanburgh Castle.
The tower on the right was the end of the zip wire for quarried stone. That is not a submarine in the background.
The footpath across the fields towards the castle was, not surprisingly, muddy. Interesting names of the sea area, Nova Scotia, Cushat Stiel on the way to the ruin and Rumble Churn beyond it.
Ruined gatehouse of a once proud castle built by the Gaunts of Lancaster. The castle is a National Trust/English Heritage property.
The walk, which is nearly all on the Northumberland Coast Path/St. Oswald's Way, goes below the castle walls, or what's left of them. On the sea side is the famous anticline, on the land side a WW2 pill box which defends the golf course.
Anticline
Pill box.
We left the footpath and walked down to the beach, very sandy and very firm, very pleasant after last week's mud. Near the Golf Club car park and club house we had to climb back on to the dunes as a small stream was quite swollen by all the recent rain. By now we had split into two groups, one of five and one of three.
The famous five walked back onto the beach until we reached the bird hide at Low Newton by the Sea, thinking the others would have stopped there for lunch. They hadn't so we settled down to watch the birds on the pond and have a Herbie. Titans, Ben's ginger biscuits, Mr. Kipling's chocolate slices and mini flapjacks.
There were quite a lot of birds on the pond, ducks and geese scurrying, grebes and a heron. Beyond the pond a flock of swans were looking for ugly ducklings.
Lunch over we continued north. Just beyond Low Newton we took the path across fields between High Newton Farm and Newton Point. Usually we go all the way round the point but it was cold and we had had a couple of showers.
The Ship at Low Newton. Pub/brewery/resturant. Favourite for travel pages in the heavy papers.
Looking back across Embleton Bay
We stuck with St. Oswald across fields and links until we came to the footbridge across Long Nanny, a stream that enters the sea at Tughall Mill Links. Thanks to the modern miracle called the mobile phone we were able to connect with the other three who were Herbieing in the lime kilns at Beadnell.
They had gone by the time we got there.. but they did call to say they would catch a bus to Craster and bring cars to rescue us.
Long Nanny
Lime Kilns at Beadnell.
We five headed on our way to Seahouses, initially on the road then down on the dunes, with a detour round a fairly new house whose garden cut thye footpath. Back down on the beach for a short distance before heading back to the road at Annstead Bridge and heading for the Olde Ship pub near the harbour. Always a popular pub particularly with the locals, it had several hand pulled ales on offer, Directors and Ruddles, plus.
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This walk is about 10.5 miles long, easy going, no hills.
Photos from Dave
November 15th.
After last week's logistical problems we are definitely going to walk from Craster this week;
Brian, John x3., Dave, Ben, Harry and me, up the coast from the kipper village to Seahouses the Fish and Chip capital of the county.
Craster is north up the A1 to Alnwick and then follow road signs.
The portly gentleman from north of the border told us to expect cold north east breeze and showers. He was right. Two maps cover the walk: OS Explorer 332 Alnwick and Amble, OS Explorer 340 Holy Island, but using the old adage of keeping the sea on your right you could live without a map.
The familiar car park, for which there is a fee, £4 for a full day is on the right as you enter the village and is in an old quarry from which, once upon a time, road stone was carried to the harbour by a zip wire and loaded onto boats.
Breakfast, not at Tiffany's, but at....
We set off, down the street, past the Jolly Fisherman pub, the kipper factory and round the edge of the small and almost empty harbour, past the row of cottages and into the fields on our way to Dunstanburgh Castle.
The footpath across the fields towards the castle was, not surprisingly, muddy. Interesting names of the sea area, Nova Scotia, Cushat Stiel on the way to the ruin and Rumble Churn beyond it.
The walk, which is nearly all on the Northumberland Coast Path/St. Oswald's Way, goes below the castle walls, or what's left of them. On the sea side is the famous anticline, on the land side a WW2 pill box which defends the golf course.
We left the footpath and walked down to the beach, very sandy and very firm, very pleasant after last week's mud. Near the Golf Club car park and club house we had to climb back on to the dunes as a small stream was quite swollen by all the recent rain. By now we had split into two groups, one of five and one of three.
The famous five walked back onto the beach until we reached the bird hide at Low Newton by the Sea, thinking the others would have stopped there for lunch. They hadn't so we settled down to watch the birds on the pond and have a Herbie. Titans, Ben's ginger biscuits, Mr. Kipling's chocolate slices and mini flapjacks.
There were quite a lot of birds on the pond, ducks and geese scurrying, grebes and a heron. Beyond the pond a flock of swans were looking for ugly ducklings.
Lunch over we continued north. Just beyond Low Newton we took the path across fields between High Newton Farm and Newton Point. Usually we go all the way round the point but it was cold and we had had a couple of showers.
We stuck with St. Oswald across fields and links until we came to the footbridge across Long Nanny, a stream that enters the sea at Tughall Mill Links. Thanks to the modern miracle called the mobile phone we were able to connect with the other three who were Herbieing in the lime kilns at Beadnell.
They had gone by the time we got there.. but they did call to say they would catch a bus to Craster and bring cars to rescue us.
Lime Kilns at Beadnell.
We five headed on our way to Seahouses, initially on the road then down on the dunes, with a detour round a fairly new house whose garden cut thye footpath. Back down on the beach for a short distance before heading back to the road at Annstead Bridge and heading for the Olde Ship pub near the harbour. Always a popular pub particularly with the locals, it had several hand pulled ales on offer, Directors and Ruddles, plus.
This walk is about 10.5 miles long, easy going, no hills.
Photos from Dave
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