August Totals

All green !
Monthly Average : 11,324 steps
Best Day : 34,375 steps - Wednesday 20th August

Wednesday 20th August was a longer than originally planned walk up the Northumbrian Coast path detailed here. 

Cragside

Cragside was the home of Victorian inventor and engineer Lord Armstrong.  It is now a National Trust house and grounds.  In fact the grounds are huge !  There are several suggested walks around the grounds, and while we started one, we soon found ourselves wandering off left and right to see some of the other areas.

The grounds are so extensive there is actually a suggested car tour, with many car parks from which other walks start.

The Armstrong Trail at Cragside

Craster to Low Newton via Dunstanburgh Castle

We wanted to walk to Dunstanburgh castle, but carried on for a bit, going from Craster all the way to Low Newton and back.  Unwittingly we had followed a route I found later on the National Trust web site (actually we did it as a figure of 8 rather than the long winding oval they suggest).

The Route

Lindisfarne (Holy Island)

We arrived in Lindisfarne around 9am and just before the tide covered the access road.  This meant we hard the island almost to ourselves for the morning.  We explored the village, and circumnavigated the priory before going out on a set walk to the north west dunes.

We closely followed Walk 2 in my book "Short Walks in Northumbria" by the Ramblers Association, as show in the route map below.  However we did an extra there-and-back trip all the way up to Castlehead Rocks.

The approximate route