ENGLAND
                                              The Pennine Way, Central and North
Six stages of the Pennine Way, in the central and northern part of the route. Here you can find more information about the Way, how to come there (from Holland) and about accommodation. We took the train from Leeds to Appleby in Westmorland ( the Leeds-Carlisle line) and from the station there it’s four kilometres walking to our start in Dufton.

Map: we bought in Appleby the Pennine Way Central, Horton in Ribblesdale-Greenhead,  Harvey, scale 1:40.000. and the Pennine Way North, Greenhead to Kirk Yetholm. Good maps, waterproof, useful in rainy England! Although the route is very well marked, you need a map. And with fog: a compass.

April 2008: six stages from the Pennine way, through the Northern Pennines and the Northumerland National Park. And between that a fine stage along the Hadrian Wall, the wall   made by the emperor Hadrian (AD 117-138) “to separate the Romans from the Barbarians”.

Day 1: Dufton - Carrigill  *

Day 2: Carrigill - Slaggyford
Day 3: Slaggyford - Greenhead

Day 4: Greenhead - Once Brewed
Day 5: Once Brewed - Bellingham
Day 6: Bellingham - Byrness **

 

And by train form Carlisle to Leeds.

 

* At this stage you climb Cross Fell and great Dun Fell: the Fells are prone to dense hill fog and fierce winds. So, listen to the locals and with bad weather: don’t do it!

** The B&B at Bellingham picked us up at Byrness. From Bellingham it’s easier to get to Carlisle.

On the route: the Way goes through meadows, passes farmhouses, along rivers, wet moor lands, and in the northern part forests.

Between the little villages “the complete nothing”, isolated, desolated, silence. ……..You are on your own now…..

And: the “famous” grouse, many of them.

Return to start

Between Slaggyford and Greenhead

Near Bellingham

Map