Walk · Northumberland

Walltown Crags and Thirlwall Castle

Haltwhistle · CA8 7JB

4MILES

2h 20mON FOOT

175mCLIMB

CircularSHAPE

Off-road 88% 12% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 62%Lane & track 26%Road with traffic 12%

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

Roman Army Museum car park, Carvoran, near Greenhead CA8 7JB

Parking

Museum car park, free to visitors and paid otherwise; Walltown Quarry country park car park just up the road is free with toilets

Directions to the start →

Four miles in two to three hours with some sharp short climbs, along the switchback of Walltown Crags and down the Pennine Way to the ruin of Thirlwall Castle above the Tipalt Burn. Start from the Roman Army Museum car park at Carvoran, free for museum visitors and charged otherwise, with Walltown Quarry country park a few hundred yards on as a free alternative. Walltown Quarry has a mown lawn and a pond where a dog can run, but the crag section is grazed by sheep with an unfenced drop on the north face, and Thirlwall itself is a fenced consolidated ruin.

THE SMALL PRINTLeads on along the crags for grazing sheep and the unfenced northern drop; dogs are not admitted inside the Roman Army Museum.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on

Off-lead allowed

REGION · NORTHUMBERLAND

GRID · 54.9878, -2.4700

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