Walk #48 - Cheviot Hills
Northumberland
Overall Rating - ✪✪✪✪
Suggested Difficulty - Moderate
My Difficulty Rating - ✪✪✪
Suggested Time - 3 h 30m
Actual Time Taken - 3h 11m
Distance in book - 10.9km
Map my walk Distance - 11.46km
I've given the walk a 4 star for it's great views, easy to follow route and for generally being a pretty peaceful place.
As the route partly follows the Pennine Way, it was pretty easy to navigate. There was only one small section which required a bit of a scramble to find a path where the directions went a tad vague. On the whole, thumbs up emoji.
The walk had a fair degree of difficulty as it involves climbing four separate hills, 3 of which are a bit of an up and down roller coaster along a ridge line. The walk was also made slightly more difficult by the gale force winds along the top of the hills. Thankfully, the paths along the grassy terrain were pretty easy to walk on.
As you can see from the pictures, the views throughout this walk across the top of the hills were fantastic. Even on a fairly dull, overcast day I was treated to some great panoramic views. In all honesty, the main reason I wanted to go on this walk was to try taking some 360° photos on my phone for my new VR headset (nerd alert!) it didn't disappoint.
After tackling Staerough Hill, Sunnyside Hill, Wildgoose Hill and Latchly Hill there is a bit of shelter from the windy tops as you drop down into a valley before coming to the ruins of Old Halterburn Head.
After walking up a grassy track to meet the Pennine Way, the walk enters England for about 10 minutes, and of course I behaved like a child jumping from Scotland to England whilst there was nobody around...
As you cross back over to the Scottish border there is a short photo stop at the Stob Stones. The book informed me that this is a spot where gypsy kings and queens were traditionally crowned, fun(ish) fact of the day.
After the Stob Stones, there is a straight forward decent back to the car park.
I would definitely recommend this one. The views throughout are outstanding and it offers a bit of difficulty with the numerous small hill climbs.
Hopefully I wont have to wait as long for the next walk, but until then, thanks for reading.
Stef.
Map my walk Distance - 11.46km
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| Grass car park near Halter Burn, start/finish |
Happy New Year! Slightly late reporting on this walk from new year's eve but that is what happens when you are a newly qualified teacher! I welcomed in 2017 whilst in the Scottish Borders and this walk was about a 40 minute drive from where I was staying near Hawick. It's a bit strange that it says Northumberland in the walking book when probably 95% of the walk is North of the wall in Scotland!
I've given the walk a 4 star for it's great views, easy to follow route and for generally being a pretty peaceful place.
As the route partly follows the Pennine Way, it was pretty easy to navigate. There was only one small section which required a bit of a scramble to find a path where the directions went a tad vague. On the whole, thumbs up emoji.The walk had a fair degree of difficulty as it involves climbing four separate hills, 3 of which are a bit of an up and down roller coaster along a ridge line. The walk was also made slightly more difficult by the gale force winds along the top of the hills. Thankfully, the paths along the grassy terrain were pretty easy to walk on.
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| Looking down on Kirk Yetholm |
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| Jiminy on top of Staerough Hill |
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| Looking back at Staerough Hill |
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| About all the company you get up here! |
As you can see from the pictures, the views throughout this walk across the top of the hills were fantastic. Even on a fairly dull, overcast day I was treated to some great panoramic views. In all honesty, the main reason I wanted to go on this walk was to try taking some 360° photos on my phone for my new VR headset (nerd alert!) it didn't disappoint.
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| Ruins of Old Halterburn Head |
After tackling Staerough Hill, Sunnyside Hill, Wildgoose Hill and Latchly Hill there is a bit of shelter from the windy tops as you drop down into a valley before coming to the ruins of Old Halterburn Head.
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| Border control |
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| Stob Stones |
As you cross back over to the Scottish border there is a short photo stop at the Stob Stones. The book informed me that this is a spot where gypsy kings and queens were traditionally crowned, fun(ish) fact of the day.
After the Stob Stones, there is a straight forward decent back to the car park.
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| Decent back to car park |
I would definitely recommend this one. The views throughout are outstanding and it offers a bit of difficulty with the numerous small hill climbs.
Hopefully I wont have to wait as long for the next walk, but until then, thanks for reading.
Stef.
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