Craster Howick Hall and Beach Walk

After breakfast this morning Dawn and I went on another walk.

This time we did one from the guide book I'd bought, the excellent Slow Travel guide to Northumberland. This was our route.

You can read a description of the walk here.

Here are some of my photos.

The route took us round the back of Craster to start with.

Then it was inland towards Howick Scar farm.

We passed some glamping huts. I'm not I'd want to drive up the track to them unless I had a 4x4.

Looking back at Howick Scar and the cliffs of the Long Heugh.

We passed underneath Hips Heugh which has a trig point at 58m a little further along.

As we approached Howick Hall we passed some gunnera plants.

The autumn colours are a little more advanced than at home.

We tried getting access to the Long Walk from the road, but couldn't so paid our entrance and walked through the grounds of Howick Hall.

We visited the chapel.

The kneelers are nicely decorated.

There is a turnstile as the Long Walk goes under the road.

It follows the Howick Burn down to the sea.

There are lots of paths you can wander along criss-crossing the burn.

There is another turnstile at the bottom end which lets you out but not in.

The path comes out at Low Stead Links, where it joins the Coast Path (and St. Oswald's Way).

We had lovely scenery as we followed the path back to Craster.

We soon started to see Dunstanburgh Castle in the distance.

This is known as the Black Hole.

And this is the Hole o' the Dike.

The path goes through the beer garden of the Jolly Fisherman, where we found the rest of the family. We didn't linger long over our drinks as the wind was quite strong and rather cold.

A lovely walk, but it is worth taking longer over Hocik Hall and visit the tearooms. We were going to return to do that but ran out of time to reuse our tickets before they closed.

You can find more details of our 6.9 mile route here on MapMyWalk (or download a GPX file here) and see more of my photos here on Flickr.