20.7 km (12.8 miles)
Our 30th Wedding Anniversary and a couple of days away in Northumberland. We stayed in the Hope and Anchor in Alnmouth and, after visiting The Alnwick Garden on Sunday decided on this walk on the Monday (the actual date of our anniversary).
We began from Boulmer (pronouced "boomer) GR NU 265 139 and the first part of our walk took us along an unmarked road and past the helicopter station at RAF Boulmer. The road eventually reaches the village of Longhaughton, a linear village that stretched for over a kilometre. At the end of the village a path led through fields to join yet another road (GR NU 243 166) at Howick Grange. This road runs down and passes Howick Hall, famous for its gardens and arboretum.
Here, thankfully, the road walking finished and we headed out across fields and over the shoulder of Hips Heugh before cutting through Arnold Reserve and emerging in Craster (GR NU 258 198). This is a delightful Northumberland finshing village which owes much of its popularity to its proximity to Dustanburgh Castle.
The approach to the castle is a good walk along the coast with the castle itself dominating the horizon.
Here we picked up our normal cache - grabbing a trackable which, I later found out, had arrived from the Netherlands two days previousy.
We returned to Craster and then returned via. the coast path back to our start point in Boulmer.
A fantastic day's walking - the coastline walk was absolutely spectacular and I'm sure that my photographs do not do it justice.
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