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Alnwick Waterside Trail and the Pastures

Alnwick · NE66 1YU
N 176 YD
2MILES
1h 5mON FOOT
55mCLIMB
CircularSHAPE
Off-road 90% 10% shares tarmac with cars
Field & moor path 70%Lane & track 20%Road with traffic 10%

Our drawing of the route — the shape of the walk, not a navigation aid. Carry OS Explorer on the hill. Off-lead information here is what walkers reported or what signage allows — never our advice. Whether and when a dog is off the lead is the owner’s decision and legal responsibility; keep dogs under control near livestock and follow signs on the day.

Starts at
The Alnwick Garden car park, Denwick Lane NE66 1YU
Parking
The Alnwick Garden pay-and-display car park, several hundred spaces and rarely full; Greenwell Road council car park is the free alternative a few minutes further on
Directions to the start →

Two miles from The Alnwick Garden car park down through the Pastures to the River Aln, west along the bank to the four-arch Lion Bridge with the Percy lion on its parapet, and back up under the castle walls. This is the Waterside Trail published by Northumberland Estates, who own the ground, and it is the walk to do in Alnwick with a dog, because the estate's other big option, Hulne Park, bans dogs outright. Grass and gravel path, gently rolling, one gate. The estate's own instruction is that much of this land is a conservation area, so dogs are to be kept under strict control, and the trail is currently diverted around the Riverbrook Gardens housing works.

THE SMALL PRINTNorthumberland Estates asks that dogs be kept under strict control because much of the land is a conservation area. There is a live diversion around the Riverbrook Gardens development.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on
REGION · NORTHUMBERLAND
GRID · 55.4166, -1.7003
SOURCE · HTTPS://NORTHUMBERLANDESTATES.CO.UK/THE-ESTATE/WALKS-TRAILS/
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Alnwick Waterside Trail, the long loop to Denwick

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3.6MILES
1:55TIME
95mCLIMB
90%OFF-ROAD
Livestock — leads on

The longer of the two Waterside Trail variants that Northumberland Estates publishes from The Alnwick Garden car park, about three and a half miles taking in the Lion Bridge, the north bank of the Aln past the castle's Capability Brown parkland, and a swing east through farmland towards Denwick Bridge before turning back. Field-edge and riverside path with two gates and a short stretch of estate track. The estate's stated rule is that dogs must be kept under strict control here because the land is a conservation area, and the field sections are stock-grazed. Do not attempt to link it into Hulne Park: the estate does not permit dogs there.

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