Our drawing of the route — the shape of the walk, not a navigation aid. Carry OS Explorer on the hill.
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.
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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