📌 Cheviot Hills, Northumberland
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Yeavering Bell is one of the northernmost summits in the Cheviot Hills, overlooking the River Glen a few miles west of Wooler. It’s named after the Anglo-Saxon settlement and royal court of Gefrin (or Yefrin / Yeavering / Hill of the Goats) which was located on a terrace above the floodplain in the 7th century. Several hundred years earlier, iron age forts were constructed at the top of the hill; an impressive stone rampart encircles the two grassy summits, within which the imprints of over 100 roundhouses have been discovered – now visible as grassy hollows.
📷 Chronological photo guide
🌍 Location
📌 Start / finish at Old Yeavering track junction on B6351, 1 mi east of Kirknewton
🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NT 924304
🛰️ GPS coordinates: 55.567102,-2.122388
🚌 Infrequent bus to Kirknewton, with track link to west side of walk route
🚗 Space to park at track junction (don’t block gates), or Ad Gefrin layby 300m east, with path link to north of B6351
📝 Key info
▶ 5 km / 3 mi | ▲ 330 m | ⌛ 2 hr
Features: △ Yeavering Bell (361 m) & fort
⬤ Moderate | Clear tracks & paths, steep in places especially on descent.
Download file for GPS➡️ Anticlockwise circuit: start – track southwest up valley to 164m spot height – track southeast to 268m spot height – Yeavering Bell (east & west tops) – descend north by permissive footpath – start
🥾 On our last visit
Wildlife: Sheep & cows (on / close to track), several red grouse, butterflies.
Weather: Sunny with cloudier skies to southwest, very windy, 20°C.
August 2023
