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- The Great Outdoors
Hadrian's Wall Path: Wallsend to Bowness-on-Solway
by: Henry Stedman
UPDATES
Updated information
Thank you to the readers who sent in the following updates in particular Ken, Rich & Sophie Eames, John Nichols.
The information has not yet been checked by Trailblazer but it will be for the next edition.
June 2011
p 124 Chesters Fort. The Dovecote B&B is located just up the hill from Chesters Fort at Lincoln Hill. The owner is Jane Bradley.
July 2011
English Heritage sites along Hadrian's Wall will only be open weekends during the winter season from 1st November 2011. For up to date information, please check the English Heritage website - www.english-heritage.org.uk
31 August 2011
Lanercost. Abbey Mill B&B was our favourite stop by some distance, leading the rankings on comfort, friendliness, and breakfast.
The Crosby Lodge Country House Hotel continues to welcome walkers, and to serve tea and sandwiches all day in an atmosphere reminiscent of an Agatha Christie "Miss Marple" TV adaptation; we kept expecting a retired Colonel to be foully done to death in the smoking room.
Walltown. The Riverside route just East of Walltown still doesn't appear to have opened.
November 2011
page 40. Taking dogs along the Hadrian's Wall Path. Stiles in Northumberland are ladder stiles with narrow rungs and there are a lot of them so you will need to carry your dog over stiles. Stiles in Cumbria tend to be gates which are easier to negotiate.
Also taking your dog with you limits where you can stay and where you can eat and often on this walk with your dog with you you will have to eat outside. There are of course exceptions to this and there are B&Bs which take dogs but do enquire before you start the walk.
page 107. Heddon-on-the-Wall, Hadrian's Barn, Edgehill, Hillhead. An excellent B&B - a converted barn with twin beds, living room and kitchen, self-cook and serve breakfast. Tel: 07811 020018. wwwhadriansbarn.co.uk
page 122. Chollerford/Humshaugh. Walwick Farmhouse B&B. On the road climbing up from Chesters. Magnificent position with views down the Tyne valley, superb food and dog friendly. Tel: 01434 681823. www.walwickfarmhouse.co.uk
Page 154. Saughy Rigg Farm, near Steel Rigg. Has a drying room, is dog friendly and offers transfers in a minibus – call them and they will come and pick you up.
Page 188. Carlisle. The County Hotel takes dogs.
Page 206. Taxis to Carlisle. Bowness-Carlisle Metro Taxis on www.cumbria.gov.uk which gives a timetable. £6 per trip. Well worthwile.
21 November 2011
page171, map 29. At the western end of the map you come out of the field onto the road and the route now goes right and left over a small new bridge rather than left and right.
page 193, map 39. On the western end of the map a large new road is under construction.
