Bamburgh and Seahouses – Apr 2021

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£12.00

Date: Saturday 3 April 2021
Start time: 10.30 am
Distance: 8 miles
Difficulty: Easy

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Description

Bamburgh and Seahouses

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Bamburgh and Seahouses visits two of the great places on the Northumbrian coast.  Historical Bamburgh, with Bamburgh Castle  dominating the village.  Seahouses is a tourist hotspot and fishing village, famous for fish and chips and boat trips to the Farne Islands.

Details

Hills: General - AscentKey1-98x27 Some small hills
Distance: General - DistanceKey1-98x27 Medium distance
Grade: General - GradeKey1-98x27 Easy
Map: General - 340-HolyIslandBamburgh-Map-thumb
This walk is on OS map 340 Holy Island and Bamburgh.  Click on map image to buy this map.
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Start

We will start in one of the beach car parks to the North of Bamburgh and take the path directly onto the beach.  This will provide spectacular views of the Castle, coastline and out to sea.  You might also see the decorated tank traps on the beach.

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Training and refresher

We have some new walkers who haven’t done Nordic Walking before.  So, we will do a training session on the beach.  It’s been a while since we all did any Nordic Walking.  So, a little refresher will be good and the walk is a great time to practice what we have learned.

Northumberland Coastal Path – Bamburgh to Seahouses

Once we have completed the training, we will leave the beach and walk round the back of the castle and out towards the road.  We will cross here and follow the Northumberland Coastal Path.

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The Northumberland Coastal Path runs from Cresswell to Berwick upon Tweed.  For this section it is also St Oswald’s Way.  Unusually, at this point it doesn’t follow the coast and crosses fields inland.  We will follow this route towards Seahouses.  As we will use this route on the way there, on the way back we will get the beach with the tide fully out.

Seahouses

We will stop for lunch at Seahouses.  If you like, you can get fish and chips.  There is a terraced seating area, overlooking the harbour, to sit and eat.

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Once we have finished lunch, we will leave Seahouses and head out along the road before descending to the beach at St Aiden’s Dunes.

The beach – Seahouses to Bamburgh

This beach is one of the best in Northumberland.  It’s big and great to walk on and you get a great view of Bamburgh Castle.

Once we are past Shorehouse, Monk House and Greenhill Rocks we will be on the widest part of the beach.  This bit is less accessible, so less populated.  We can walk where we like here.  Just past Bamburgh Castle, we return to where we started and go across the dunes to the car park.

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After we finish, we will head back into the village for take-away tea and cake.

Hope to see you there.

Julie & Martin x

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Location

This shows the start location for this walk.

Nearest postcode:   NE69 7DD
OS Grid Reference:  NU17737 35469

Toilets:  In the village just after the turning for the Winding.

Parking: When driving along The Winding (also signposted golf course), the car park is the 2nd beach car park.  It is higher than the first one, sitting on top of the dunes.