Brough Law and the Breamish hillforts

Four and a quarter miles and 250 metres of climbing in two and a half hours up onto the ramparts of the Iron Age fort on Brough Law and round by Ewe Hill and Cochrane Pike above the Breamish. Start from the free National Park parking strips along the valley road past Ingram, where there is space for dozens of cars but almost all of it is on the grass verge and it fills with picnickers on hot days. The Breamish is beside the road at the start and makes a fine shallow paddle, and the hill tracks are good off-lead ground, but the fell is grazed all year, ground-nesting curlew and lapwing mean leads from March to July, and there is no water once you are on the tops.