Walk · Northumberland

Simonside and Lordenshaws ridge

Rothbury
Simonside 429m Dove Crag 395m N 880 YD © OpenStreetMap contributors
7.1MILES
3h 24mON FOOT
350mCLIMB
CircularSHAPE
The route A-road B-road Lane Track Path Water Woodland
Off-road 97% 3% shares tarmac with cars
Field & moor path 67%Lane & track 30%Road with traffic 3%

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
Lordenshaws car park, off the Rothbury to Great Tosson road
Parking
Free National Park car park at Lordenshaws, roughly 25 spaces, full by 10.30am on fine weekends; the approach lane is single track with no passing verges to park on
Directions to the start →

Seven miles and 350 metres of climbing in three and a half hours, from the prehistoric rock art at Lordenshaws along the sandstone crags of Simonside and Dove Crag with the Cheviots laid out to the north, returning on forest tracks. Start at the Lordenshaws car park off the Rothbury to Great Tosson road, free with about 25 spaces and full by mid-morning at weekends, with no verge parking on the narrow lane. The forest tracks on the return are a good off-lead run, but the heather ridge is grazed and holds ground-nesting curlew, red grouse and merlin, so the National Park’s Take the Lead campaign asks for dogs on leads on the open moor, and the crags drop away abruptly on their north side.

THE SMALL PRINTNorthumberland National Park asks for dogs on leads across the Simonside heather moor for ground-nesting curlew, grouse and merlin, and for the grazing sheep; the crag edges are unfenced with a sheer north face. Forest tracks on the return are off-lead.

House rules, decoded

Off-lead allowed
Livestock — leads on
REGION · NORTHUMBERLAND
GRID · 55.2906, -1.9296
SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.KOMOOT.COM/SMARTTOUR/E993634366/LORDENSHAWS-SIMONSIDE-LOOP-NORTHUMBERLAND-NATIONAL-PARK
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