Category Archives: pub

A Christmas walk at Corbridge 16th December

Posted on December 18, 2018 by Family Walking Group

With many of our children at University or already graduated and out in the big wide world, this is the walk when we are guaranteed to see them all together. For the last few years we have started from Corbridge … Continue reading →

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Sunderland Bridge and Croxdale Hall 11th November

Posted on December 3, 2018 by Family Walking Group

Autumn 2018 has been a delight. It started early with a chilly stretch of weather in early October and that kick-started the colour change in the trees. Dry and still weather followed with cool nights and so we had an … Continue reading →

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Rambling in Rowlands Gill; February 18th

Posted on March 16, 2018 by Family Walking Group

  Do you think it’s best to get a steep climb out of the way early in a walk or wait until the end? For this walk we were straight into it from the off. Starting out in the Derwent … Continue reading →

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Walking around Featherstone 20th August 2017

Posted on September 5, 2017 by Family Walking Group

It’s a lovely couple of miles’ drive to the start point of this walk once you have exited the A69, just past Haltwhistle. Fantastic undulating, winding country roads that pass through verdant pasture full of contented looking sheep. The grassy … Continue reading →

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A stroll in Slaggyford June 11th 2017

Posted on August 2, 2017 by Family Walking Group

  Go on then, hands up who had heard of Slaggyford?? Me neither until I found this walk in the excellent book Walks in Tynedale & Allendale and was intrigued. This walk started in the village of Slaggyford itself – … Continue reading →

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Hexhamshire 2nd April 2017

Posted on April 5, 2017 by Family Walking Group

Well here we are again after a long-ish #walk break due to logistics problems. Our return to walking saw us in sunny #Hexhamshire – and boy was it sunny! We started out in the car park opposite the lovely Dipton … Continue reading →

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Haltwhistle, August 21st 2016

Posted on September 26, 2016 by Family Walking Group

This was the first walk of our new 6-month programme, taking us up to the end of the year. The theme is Landmarks. The landmark for this walk was Hadrian’s Wall. Heard of it? Good. We did this walk earlier … Continue reading →

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Corbridge 20th December

Posted on December 28, 2015 by Family Walking Group

Amazingly we are here at the end of another year and another programme of walks too. Our traditional Christmas walk followed by Christmas lunch is always one of the highlights of the year with a good turnout guaranteed. Today was … Continue reading →

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