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1 Wallsend to Newcastle 2 Newcastle to Heddon-onthe-Wall
3 Heddon-on-the-Wall to Chollerford 4 Chollerford to Housesteads
5 Housesteads to Greenhead 6 Greenhead to Banks
7 Banks to Crosby-on-Eden 8 Crosby-on-Eden to Burgh by Sands
9 Burgh by Sands to Bowness    

 

DAY 2 - NEWCASTLE TO HEDDON-ON-THE-WALL - 22/03/06

 
13 walkers for this 10 mile walk on a beautiful bright spring morning, initially cold, but warming up considerably further into the day. This section of the path took us along a very pleasant paved riverside footpath alongside the Tyne passing several Tyne bridges including the Swing Bridge, built by William Armstrong in 1910.

Just after Elswick the path left the river, followed the main road for a while, before picking up a footpath created on a dismantled railway line to rejoin the river at Newburn. This was near to the site of the battle of Newburn Ford of 1640 which decided the result of the Second Bishops' War, a conflict between England and Scotland, caused by fierce Scottish reaction against Charles I's attempt to reform the Scottish church.

Here we stopped off at The Boathouse pub for a drink. At the corner of The Boathouse the wall incorporates stones which record flood levels showing the level of the 1771 flood up to the second floor and several others at a lower level (1815, 1832, 1852 and 1856).

The photo on the right shows Connie pointing out the 1815 flood level.

The great flood of 1771 destroyed or seriously damaged all the bridges spanning the Tyne, except the present bridge at Corbridge, Northumberland, making it the oldest existing bridge across the Tyne.

From here we continued through the Tyne Riverside Country Park before joining the Wylam Waggonway for a short while. The waggonway linked Wylam colliery to the staiths at Lemington from where the coal was taken down the River Tyne on flat bottomed boats called keels.

We then walked through a golf course then up a fairly steep uphill section into Heddon where we visited a nearby section of Hadrian's Wall. Afterwards we filled in the time at the Three Tuns pub while waiting for the bus to take us back to Newcastle.