📌 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.
Download file for GPS➡️ 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. Route signposted, and in leaflet 🔗 here (route U)
🥾 On our last visit
Wildlife: Small birds in the forest, beetles.
Weather: Temperature in mid teens, sunny intervals, breezy.
June 2019
Also on this walk
Hindhope Linn ★★
🌍 Location
📌 On the Hindhope Burn
🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NY 780998
🛰️ GPS coordinates: 55.292541,-2.346584
❌ No public transport within 1 mi
🚗 See info for walk route above
📝 Key info
⌚ Always open
🎫 Free
💬 Quickest access to the waterfall on its own is a 15-min walk (each way) using the outward route described above (⬤ Easy).