Walk · Northumberland

Warkworth beach and Birling Carrs

Warkworth

3.6MILES

1h 40mON FOOT

35mCLIMB

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

Off-road 88% 12% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 74%Lane & track 14%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

Warkworth beach car park, at the end of Beal Bank

Parking

Council pay-and-display at the beach, about 70 spaces, no overflow; the village car parks are half a mile inland

Directions to the start →

Three and a half miles in an hour and three quarters, over the dunes to the sand and north along the beach to the rock scars at Birling Carrs, returning by the links path. Start at the Warkworth beach car park at the end of Beal Bank, a charged council car park that is the only parking on this side of the river and fills on the first warm Saturday of the year. Dogs run free on the whole beach with no seasonal ban anywhere in this parish, and the Coquet mouth is a good swim on a calm day, but the dune grassland is grazed and the estuary end holds roosting terns in late summer.

House rules, decoded

Off-lead allowed

Livestock — leads on

REGION · NORTHUMBERLAND

GRID · 55.3532, -1.6018

SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.NORTHUMBERLAND.GOV.UK/PUBLIC-PROTECTION/ANIMAL-WELFARE-AND-DOG-CONTROL

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Warkworth beach and Birling Carrs

House rules, decoded

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