Walk · Northumberland

Holy Island: the Heugh, the Lough and Emmanuel Head

Holy Island · TD15 2SE

4.6MILES

1h 55mON FOOT

25mCLIMB

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The route A-road B-road Lane Track Path Water Woodland

Off-road 84% 16% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 64%Lane & track 20%Road with traffic 16%

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. 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

Chare Ends main car park, Holy Island TD15 2SE

Parking

Large pay-and-display at Chare Ends, the island’s only car park; it fills solid in the middle of the safe crossing window in summer

Directions to the start →

A four and a half mile circuit of the island in under two hours, past the priory and the Heugh to the castle and limekilns, north to the white pyramid at Emmanuel Head and back over the dunes by Coves Haven and Snipe Point. Park at the main pay-and-display car park at Chare Ends, the only car park on the island, and check the published safe crossing times before you set out because the causeway floods twice a day. Lindisfarne National Nature Reserve requires dogs to be kept on a short lead or at heel across the reserve, with the North Shore the one place they may be let off; the flats hold internationally important wintering geese and waders.

THE SMALL PRINTNatural England requires dogs on a short lead or at heel throughout Lindisfarne National Nature Reserve; a zoning scheme allows off-lead exercise on the North Shore only, maximum two dogs per person. The causeway is submerged twice daily and crossing times must be checked.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on

REGION · NORTHUMBERLAND

GRID · 55.6700, -1.8095

SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.GOV.UK/GOVERNMENT/PUBLICATIONS/NORTHUMBERLANDS-NATIONAL-NATURE-RESERVES

Holy Island: the Heugh, the Lough and Emmanuel Head

House rules, decoded

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