Our drawing of the route, over road and path data from OpenStreetMap. It shows where the walk goes and what it goes through. It is not a survey and not a navigation aid — carry OS Explorer on the hill.
Four and a half miles in a little over two hours up a wooded ravine of old industrial workings to Cawfields Quarry, returning on lanes and the old railway line. Start in Haltwhistle itself, where the station and Market Place car parks are both free for up to three hours and rarely full outside market day. The burn runs alongside for the first mile and a half, so there is water and shade the whole climb and stretches where a dog can be off the lead, but the upper fields are grazed and the last section joins a quiet road.
Three and three quarter miles in about an hour and a half over rolling country with a fine stretch of Wall, east to Caw Gap and back by Great Chesters fort. Start at the Cawfields Quarry car park north of Haltwhistle, a National Park pay-and-display with picnic tables beside the flooded quarry, which is the easiest parking anywhere on this section. The quarry lake is fenced with steep sides and deep water so dogs are better kept out of it, the Wall pasture is grazed by sheep with several ladder stiles, and the Haltwhistle Burn provides the only drinkable water.
A small, quiet campsite between Haltwhistle and Once Brewed, well placed for the crags and popular with wall walkers and birdwatchers. Dogs are accepted with a limit of two per pitch and must be kept on a lead while on site. Everything around it is livestock farmland, which the owners are direct about.
Glamping pods, a lodge and a touring field on the hill above Haltwhistle, set up for dogs down to a hot-water dog wash by the wash block. The site publishes its own dog checklist and local dog walks. Cawfields Quarry and the wall are a mile and a half up the lane.
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