{"id":5164,"date":"2025-02-16T21:29:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T21:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phoenixwalks.xyz\/?p=5164"},"modified":"2025-03-01T20:54:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T20:54:26","slug":"250212","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/phoenixwalks.xyz\/index.php\/2025\/02\/16\/250212\/","title":{"rendered":"250212"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Distance 17 Km\u00a0 (10.6 miles)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Ascent\u00a0 \u00a0332 m\u00a0 (1088 ft)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Average moving speed\u00a0 4.69 Km\/hr\u00a0 (2.9 mph)\u00a0 \u00a0 Start\u00a0 10.07 am\u00a0 \u00a0Finish\u00a0 15.52pm<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Starting the walk at Weetwood Bridge, on a very overcast morning, six of us headed NW along the road past Weetwood Hall and then headed NE along St Cuthbert’s Way to E Horton.\u00a0 Here we found a seat for three of the group, while the rest stood or sat on a rock and had our morning coffee stop.\u00a0 On our way again, we gradually climbed\u00a0 along a good farm road up Town Law and then down to the Hetton Burn.\u00a0 Crossing a bridge over the burn, we then climbed again.\u00a0 At some point along this farm road, I managed to trip and measure my length.\u00a0 In addition I shattered my good camera, it didn’t like 14 stone landing on it.\u00a0 A little while later we arrived at a road.\u00a0 We followed this NW for a short distance before zig-zagging to North Hazelrigg.\u00a0 As it had started drizzling we began looking for some cover for a lunch stop.\u00a0 On the map, Mill Race Plantation looked a possibility, but unfortunately it was surrounded by fencing and didn’t look particularly inviting.\u00a0 So we carried on heading NE before turning right on the far side of a fence to rejoin St Cuthbert’s Way.\u00a0 This brought us to a minor road near Old Hazelrigg.\u00a0 This road climbed through an area of open access with good views of the crags of Bowden Doors.\u00a0 After just under a kilometer we passed through a gate to enter the open access area and headed towards Bowden Doors.\u00a0 I had suggested we have lunch in the crags which would provide some shelter and after a short distance the girls at the front of the group decided they had found a good spot so they descended into the crags.\u00a0 The rest of us joined them and it was a good sheltered spot with rocks to sit on.\u00a0 As we were well ahead of my timing, we had a lengthy lunch-stop.\u00a0 Eventually we started walking again and made our way, very gingerly, SE over a very rough surface with a “path” invisible most of the time.\u00a0 Arriving at a fence I couldn’t see any way over it down the hill to the left, so I turned uphill and eventually came to a low wooden structure over a gap in the fence.\u00a0 Crossing this structure with care, as it was very slippy, we then made our way over a better surface to the B6349\u00a0 After passing thro the gate, we turned right onto the road.\u00a0 After a fairly level walk along the road there was a steep descent down Lyham Moor to Old Lyham.\u00a0 After a further descent we turned left onto a wide but rather rough and muddy track heading south.\u00a0 This gradually descended to the Lyham Burn which we had to cross using the ford. Fortunately the water level was lower than the top of our boots, but not by much due to the recent wet weather.\u00a0 The track did not really improve after the ford until we reached Chatton Park Farm.\u00a0 As Ann wanted some eggs which were on sale and we were still slightly ahead of time, we all had a short stop here.\u00a0 After passing thro the farm, we turned right onto the B6348 and headed westwards over the River Till and on into Chatton.\u00a0 So ended a quite hard walk (Bowden Doors) in miserable weather.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u00a0Click on any photo to view full screen.\u00a0 \u00a0 Move through the gallery using the\u00a0 \u00a0<\u00a0 >\u00a0 arrows.<\/p>