5.0 miles
Explorer Maps 306 & 308 - Middlesbrough & Hartlepool / Durham & Sunderland
This walk starts and finishes in the Cowpen Bewley Woodland
Park. On the outward leg a quiet farm road is used to get to the village
of Greatham.
The return from Greatham uses a field footpath, firstly beside the
Greatham Creek and then beside the railway line.
The walk is very easy to navigate and there are no stiles or gradients
of any note.
At the start of the walk there is a small hill to climb in the Woodland
Park, but this is optional.
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Park in the Cowpen Bewley Woodland Park car park. (NZ479
259).
Take the track into the park (through a gate), then turn right to continue
on the track up a gentle hill.
The track continues past a lake. Ahead is a small hill which can be climbed
for a view over the surrounding countryside.
Now follow tracks in the Country Park in a North Westerly direction, with
the Greatham Creek on your right.
Follow the tracks / footpaths beside the creek until you come to the Cloff
Bridge.
Here turn right on the farm road.
CAUTION : This road, although quiet, is used by cyclists and past Field
House Farm by cars as well.
Continue on the road until you come to a sharp left hand bend. On your
right, on this bend, is a footpath that takes you to Greatham.
In Greatham , turn right and head past the Hospital of God and the church.
At the end of the road is a footpath which takes beside the Greatham Creek
towards the railway line.
At the railway line, turn right and follow the footpath back to the Cowpen
Bewley Woodland Park.