Route
Walk leader | Bernie |
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Route | Nenthead – Black Hill – Killhope Cross – Knowberry Hill – Nag’s Head – Dead Stones – Priorscale – Nenthead. |
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Weather | Windy, one light shower and one heavy shower. Gloves weather on top. |
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Walkers | Bernie, Ashley, Michelle, Michael, Sandy, Ron, George B. |
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Excuses | Carol - sore throat. Evelyn - recovering from eye operation. |
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Comments |
Bernie was wearing shorts and sunglasses (quote: “It is July”). The first and last sections were on tracks and relatively easy. In between the terrain was boggy and tussocky – hard work. We met a group of coast to coast cyclists at the county boundary. One had a bloody knee, while another had a 9kg carbon fibre bike worth £6500. We stood at the meeting of three different counties – Nothumberland, County Durham and Cumbria – marked by a small cairn. There were several stretches of fences, including some old fallen fenceposts providing useful navigational aids. We didn't meet any other walkers apart from Bernie’s sister, nephew and dog, a blue border terrier called “Sky”. Michael and Michelle did a short route. Bernie lost control of her legs , fell in the mud and got a boot stuck in the mud. Sandy route marched us back from Nag’s Head. We found several interesting stones. One in a wall looked like a grotesque face. A stone at Killhope Cross had the dates 17?5 – 1925 while another had 1865 on it . At Nag’s Head we found what appeared to be a milestone with the letters P and A and the number 10 on it. Also found various artefacts: a button mistaken for a Roman coin, a kitchen knife with a blue handle, a halogen headlamp and two ellipsoidal magnets. There was a rattly corrugated sheet at the lunch spot. The final section of the walk passed alongside a very steep shale ravine before going through old lead mine workings and a mine museum close to Nenthead, which had a large wheel. We took afternoon tea in the Miners Arms. There was a tortoiseshell cat sound asleep on a chair below a football shirt autographed by Wayne Rooney. The pub was also a stamping station for C2C. Wildlife/Flora/Animals: Birds: Meadow pipit, lapwing, grouse, curlew, skylark, ducks and seagulls Mammals/others: Two frogs, rabbit and horses. Plants/trees: Violets, wild iris, bog cotton, white and purple foxgloves, crowberries, forget-me-nots, thistles in flower, purple stocks. |
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Meal | ||||
Falcon’s Nest, North Gosforth. Very heavy thunderstorm on arrival. |
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Photo Gallery |
Ornamental well |
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Stone head |
Scenic view |
Walkers in Northumberland |
Group at cairn |
Bogs |
Fence |
Stone in wall |
Geese |
Sandy with horse
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Walkers
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What is it?
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Crossing moorland
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Pause for breath
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Lunch
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Carving in stone
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Mine
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