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
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
On our last visit
Wildlife: Sheep and lambs, swallows.
Weather: Ferociously windy, but mostly sunny with temperature in mid teens.
July 2020
Also on this walk
Linhope Spout ★★★
Location
Key info
Always open
Free
There is no quicker access to the waterfall than by the route described above.
