Upper Teesdale Walk

I was going to a school reunion in Barnard Castle, Co. Durham, and decided to travel up a day early so as to go for a walk in the lovely Upper Teesdale countryside. From a selection of walking routes I had, I chose walk 44B from my 1990 AA Tours and Walks of Britain.

I pretty much followed the route as described... I started at Bowlees Visitor Centre, went down to and crossed the river by Low Force, along the river past High Force for another 3 miles or so, turned left and up the hill to walk back along the top via the Green Trod and Silver bank to Holwick, then back down to Low Force.
About 9 miles in total and it took me about 3 3/4 hours.

Not only was the scenery lovely, the weather was too and there were plenty of wild flowers and birds to be seen.

Here is a selection of views along the way...



Bowlees Visitor Centre.



Low Force.

And here was a wild Hybrid Monkey Flower,  Mimulus x robertsii.





High Force.



Further up river.

Bleabeck Force.





Lapwing in flight.



Holwick Scars.

As the inscription said underneath the concrete sheep statues near Low Force... "A wonderful place to be a walker".
You can find more details of my route in my Map My Walk log (although I forgot to start my tracker until over an hour into the walk) and the rest of my photos of it here on Flickr.