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Walk · Northumberland

Craster, Dunstanburgh Castle and Embleton Bay

Craster · NE66 3TW
N 1 MILE
4.6MILES
2h 20mON FOOT
95mCLIMB
CircularSHAPE
Off-road 92% 8% shares tarmac with cars
Field & moor path 60%Lane & track 32%Road with traffic 8%

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
Craster quarry car park, above the harbour NE66 3TW
Parking
Northumberland Coast pay-and-display in the old quarry, around 150 spaces and the village’s only car park; full by 10am in summer
Directions to the start →

The best-known walk on this coast: four and a half miles and a little over two hours, level turf out to the castle, then sand round Embleton Bay and farm tracks back over Dunstan Square. Start from the Northumberland Coast car park in the old quarry at Craster, pay-and-display and the only real parking in the village, which is full by ten on any decent summer day. The clifftop grazing means leads on for the cattle between Craster and the castle, but Embleton Bay is dogs-all-year sand with no council restriction, and there are two gates rather than stiles on the inland return.

House rules, decoded

Off-lead allowed
Livestock — leads on
REGION · NORTHUMBERLAND
GRID · 55.4730, -1.5975
SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.NATIONALTRUST.ORG.UK/VISIT/NORTH-EAST/EMBLETON-AND-NEWTON-LINKS/CRASTER-TO-LOW-NEWTON-COASTAL-WALK
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Craster Seafood Restaurant

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Craster Seafood Restaurant is a place to eat in Craster. It is listed here so you know it is there, but we have not yet established whether dogs are welcome — so there is no verdict on this page and no stamp. If it is your business, claim the page and tell us, and we will stamp it.

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Craster to Boulmer coast path

Craster · NE66 3TW
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6.5MILES
3:10TIME
110mCLIMB
90%OFF-ROAD
Off-lead allowed Livestock — leads on

A six and a half mile linear half-day of about three hours along the least-walked stretch of the Northumberland Coast Path, past Cullernose Point, Howdiemont Sands and Sugar Sands to the fishermen’s village of Boulmer. Start at the Craster quarry car park; there is no bus back on Sundays, so either arrange a lift from Boulmer or accept a thirteen-mile day. Long empty beaches with no seasonal dog restriction and burns to drink from, but the cliff path is unfenced above Cullernose, several fields hold cattle, and the last mile into Boulmer crosses grazing where the fixed penalty for a dog off lead near stock is the farmer’s to report.

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880 YD © OpenStreetMap contributors 4.4 MI · LOOP
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Cullernose Point and Howick from Craster

Craster · NE66 3TW
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4.4MILES
2:15TIME
105mCLIMB
82%OFF-ROAD
Livestock — leads on

Four and a half miles in two hours, south from the harbour along low cliffs to the basalt columns of Cullernose Point, then inland by Howick Hall and field paths back to the village. The start is the quarry car park at Craster; it is pay-and-display and the busiest on the coast, so an early arrival or a weekday is worth planning for. Fulmars nest on the Cullernose cliffs and the path runs unfenced along the top, so leads on for that half-mile, then cattle and sheep on the fields inland; the Howick Burn gives a drink and the whinstone shore below has no seasonal dog ban.

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