Devil's Punch Bowl

Not a serious walk, but we took my parents to Hindhead Common and the Devil's Punch Bowl.  As we did technically follow two Natural Trust walks, I thought they should be recorded here.

Walks at the Devil#s Punch Bowl

We did a short there-and-back to the Sailors Stone and a modified loop of 'Miss James Walk', with the car at the start point, but when near the Cafe, they cut off to that, while I dashed back to get the car.

September Totals

Monthly Average : 7,624 steps
Best Day : 16,901 - Saturday 20th September

My long run of green days was finally broken by a cold which lasted several weeks.

Saturday 20th September was my walk along the Pang, through Pangbourne and past Pangbourne College detailed here.

Pang, Pangbourne & Pangbourne College

A walking Saturday and I choose Ramble 7 from Rambling for Pleasure around Reading Series 2 entitled Pangbourne College and River Pang.  However I started and finished at The Greyhound in Tidmarsh & then walked up Sulham hill and home.

The Route

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