Walk: Linhope Spout walkabout

📌 Cheviot Hills, Northumberland
★★★

The walk to Linhope Spout is one of the easiest introductions to the east side of the sprawling Cheviot Hills range, which straddles the Anglo-Scottish borderlands between Carlisle and Wooler. The drive up the Breamish Valley is part of the appeal, as this is the loveliest of rivers; the fertile haugh provides myriad perfect picnic spots, surrounded by rolling moorland dotted with ancient hill forts. As for the walk itself: the route is a continuation of your journey so far up the scenic glen, on easy tracks which transition to something steeper and rougher in the immediate vicinity of the powerful, 18 metre-high falls.

📷 Chronological photo guide

🌍 Location

📌 Start / finish at Hartside Farm, minor road end 3 mi west of Ingram

🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NT 977162

🛰️ GPS coordinates: 55.439710,-2.038766

❌ No public transport within 1 mi

🚗 Verge parking – do not block access

📝 Key info

▶ 5 km / 3 mi | ▲ 150 m | ⌛ 1.5 hr

Features: 🌊 Linhope Spout ★★★

⬤ Moderate | Tarmac lane and stony / grassy tracks for majority of route. Last section to the falls is on a rougher path with steep descent; less rough for return.

➡️ Anticlockwise lollipop walk: start – Linhope – fork right downhill to burn where trees end – Linhope Spout – Linhope – start by outward route

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🥾 On our last visit

Wildlife: Sheep and lambs, swallows.

Weather: Ferociously windy, but mostly sunny with temperature in mid teens.

July 2020

Linhope Spout ★★★