8.5 miles.
Outdoor Leisure Map No 31, - North Pennines, Teesdale and Weardale
Hamsterley Forest is an excellent
choice for walking when the weather isn't too good, - as well as when
it is excellent! On this walk, there was a high wind, and the Forest
provided some refuge from the worst effects of this.
For a Memory Map overlay of the walk described, please select the above
link.
(Overlay made with Version 4 of Memory Map)
The start of the walk was from the Grove, 065297.
Take the track that heads West South-West from behind the Grove, to King's
Crag and Neighbour Moor.
At the junction 026285 take the South Easterly track to the Pennington
Plantation.
Frank Lockwood's bench can be found at 037276.
Continue on the track to the Tinker Hills Plantation, to continue alongside
the Spurlswood Beck back to the Grove.