Walk: Hindhope Linn – Kielder’s best kept secret?

📌 Byrness, Northumberland
★★

“One of the area’s best kept secrets”, promises the Kielder Forest Park trails guide – yet this beguiling little waterfall walk starts under a mile from one of the main roads between Scotland and England. Close to the confluence of the Blakehope and Hindhope burns, a slender waterfall tumbles over a mossy lip into an intimate amphitheatre amidst Scots pine and larch. The waymarked loop also takes in a few other minor waterfalls and tracts of mixed woodland, making a good introduction to the vast area of forest stretching south from here, past Kielder Water as far as Hadrian’s Wall. And we didn’t see a another soul on our late May visit.

📷 Chronological photo guide

🌍 Location

📌 Start / finish at Blakehopeburnhaugh, off the A68 1 mi south of Byrness

🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NT 785002

🛰️ GPS coordinates: 55.295462,-2.340633

🚌 Extremely infrequent bus stops on A68 at Cottonshopeburnfoot (1 mi)

🚗 Car park

📝 Key info

▶ 2 km / 1 mi | ▲ 30 m | ⌛ 45 min

Features: 🌊 Hindhope Linn ★★

⬤ Easy | Clear paths, some steps and ascent / descent and just a little mud on the slightly rougher return section. Route signposted.

➡️ Anticlockwise lollipop walk with detour to foot of waterfall: start – follow track south until just beyond houses – head right on path into forest – anticlockwise loop via Hindhope Linn & Blakehope burn – return by outward route

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🥾 On our last visit

Wildlife: Small birds in the forest, beetles.

Weather: Temperature in mid teens, sunny intervals, breezy.

June 2019

Hindhope Linn ★★