Walk · Northumberland

Football Hole and Newton Pool

Newton by the Sea · NE66 3EL
High Newton by the Sea Low Newton-by-the-Sea N 440 YD © OpenStreetMap contributors
3.2MILES
1h 30mON FOOT
40mCLIMB
CircularSHAPE
The route A-road B-road Lane Track Path Water Woodland
Off-road 88% 12% shares tarmac with cars
Field & moor path 70%Lane & track 18%Road with traffic 12%

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
National Trust car park above Low Newton square NE66 3EL
Parking
National Trust car park at the top of the village, free to members and charged otherwise, about 100 spaces; cars are not allowed down into the square
Directions to the start →

A three-mile ninety-minute circuit from the square at Low Newton over the links to the sheltered cove called Football Hole and back past the bird hides at Newton Pool. Park in the National Trust car park at the top of the hill above Low Newton, since the square itself is closed to cars; it is charged for non-members and holds around a hundred. The beaches carry no seasonal dog ban and are off-lead, but the freshwater pool behind the dunes is a reserve where leads are asked for, and the tern colony fencing at the Long Nanny begins a mile north.

THE SMALL PRINTLeads requested on the path round Newton Pool nature reserve behind the dunes, and on a short lead through the roped tern colony at the Long Nanny from May to August. The beach itself is unrestricted all year.

House rules, decoded

Off-lead allowed
REGION · NORTHUMBERLAND
GRID · 55.5120, -1.6180
SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.NATIONALTRUST.ORG.UK/VISIT/NORTH-EAST/EMBLETON-AND-NEWTON-LINKS/OUR-WORK-AT-EMBLETON-AND-NEWTON-LINKS
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