The Highs and Lows of Newton

 The Highs and Lows of Newton. September 25th

Back to the coast after last Friday’s country walk from Blackhall.

Today’s outing starts from the village of Embleton. Head north, turn off for Denwick north of Alnwick and follow the sign posts for Embleton. Or use a Sat Nav

The walk is covered by OS Explorer 332 Alnwick and Amble and OS Explorer 340 Holy Island and Bamburgh. 

We parked on Front Street, next to the Dunstanburgh Castle Hotel which serves breakfast and TTL.

Definitely not for the calendar but it's where we parked by the Dunstanburgh Castle Hotel.

After breakfast in the hotel we walked up Front Street, turned right, past the Greys Inn, took the first turn on the left and almost immediately, went across  stile  on the right and through a small plantation out to some fields.

        Thr first stile of the day, and there were several awkward ones.

We walked the edges of recently harvested fields  for the best part of two miles until we reached the road leading to Dunstan Square. Through the farm yard, through a gate, across fields to a low gap in the Heughs and we were facing the North Sea, and Dunstanburgh Castle.

                            The horses of Dunstan Square
              Below.              Dunstanburgh castle, built on the orders of Thomas of Lancaster in the 14th century, damaged in the Wars of the Roses and left to go to ruin.

We walked on the footpath round the castle (King Charles III/England Coastal Path,  and after a short distance on the dunes descended to the beach of Embleton Bay where we found......

Still alive if not exactly kicking, we threw it back into the sea although the incoming tide may have returned it.

About half way round the bay we left the soft sand and took to the footpath round the edge of the golf course, through the holiday chalets and to the square of cottages at Low Newton by the Sea. 

The open square of cottages at Low Newton. Managed by the National Trust and the Ship Inn in the corner is a favourite of the Sunday supplements. We had a Herbie: cookies, Skinny Whips and Mrs A supplied sweet and savoury.

Moving on after about 5.5 miles walking we followed the footpath near the sea and round Newton Point to Link House Farm. From here we followed the road to High Newton by the Sea.

Village Green at High Newton.

There is a large car park just outside the village and at the entrance there is a footpath that we followed round the edges of several fields. The path is marked with bright yellow arrows and is easy to follow because it is fenced on both sides, no walking across fields. Crossing Kelsor Hill, more of a bump really we came to a difficult stile:

Tricky one this.

Had we known we could have avoided the stile by using a gate less than 100 yards away. Instead we walked the edge of a ploughed field, joined a good grassy path to North Farm, mostly a collection of holiday homes, turned left and walked along the road to Embleton.

The end of the road is nigh.

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The walk is about 10 easy going miles, sea views and a splendid castle even if it is ruined