📌 Cheviot Hills, Northumberland
★★★
The impressive iron age fort atop Humbleton Hill offers commanding views over Glendale from its prominent location on the edge of the Cheviots – a fine defensive site, though surely often a windswept one. The 300-metre summit is a short and straightforward ascent from nearby Wooler; this circuit first contours the northern slopes of the hill before climbing it from the rear (west) side, with a detour through Wooler Common on the return.
📷 Chronological photo guide
Wooler 
Ramsey Lane 
Cheviot encounters! 
Minor road to Humbleton 
Humbleton 
Humbleton Hill 
Track around the north side of Humbleton Hill 
Track around the north side of Humbleton Hill 
Ascent to Humbleton Hill 
View across Glendale 
View back to Monday Cleugh 
Humbleton Hill summit 
View southwest into the Cheviots 
View west 
Descent towards Wooler 
View back from the descent 
Link track south to Wooler Common 
Wooler Common 
Wooler Common 
Leaving Wooler Common 
Final descent to Wooler
🌍 Location
📌 Start / finish on Ramsey Lane, Wooler town centre
🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NT 991280
🛰️ GPS coordinates: 55.545546,-2.015528
🚌 Bus to Wooler
🚗 Car park, or nearby street parking
📝 Key info
▶ 8 km / 5 mi | ▲ 300 m | ⌛ 2-2.5 hr
Features: 🏠 Wooler ★★★; △ Humbleton Hill (298 m) & fort; 🦆 Wooler Common
⬤ Moderate | Tracks, paths & minor roads, some ascent.
Download file for GPS➡️ Anticlockwise circuit: start – Broomey Road – Highburn House Holiday Park via public footpath – Humbleton – Humbleton Hill via north then west side – descend to east – Wooler Common – start
🥾 On our last visit
Wildlife: Cheviot sheep & lambs, horses, rabbits. Buzzards, collared doves, mallards & ducklings, moorhens.
Weather: Mostly sunny, 16°C, a light wind.
May 2023
