Walk: Hindhope Linn - Kielder's best kept secret?
Northumberland | Byrness | Short walk | ★★★
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[Hindhope Linn] |
"One of the area's best kept secrets", promises the Kielder Forest Park trails guide - yet this beguiling little waterfall walk starts under a mile from one of the main roads between Scotland and England. Close to the confluence of the Blakehope and Hindhope burns, a slender waterfall tumbles over a mossy lip into an intimate amphitheatre amidst Scots pine and larch. The waymarked loop also takes in a few other minor waterfalls and tracts of mixed woodland, making a good introduction to the vast area of forest stretching south from here, past Kielder Water as far as Hadrian's Wall. And we didn't see a another soul on our late May visit.
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[Steps through the forest] |
📌 Walk: Hindhope Linn - Kielder's best kept secret? ★★★
Start / finish at car park at Blakehopeburnhaugh, off A68 1 mi south of Byrness, G.R.: NT 785002 ///rocks.event.paces
▶ 2 km / 1 mi | ▲ 30 m | ⌚ Short | ⬤ Easy
Features: Hindhope Linn
Terrain: Clear paths, some steps and ascent / descent and just a little mud on the slightly rougher return section.
Route & map
Car park - follow track south until just beyond houses - head right on path into forest - anticlockwise loop via Hindhope Linn & Blakehope burn - return by outward route. Route signposted, and in leaflet here (route U).
Route credit: Forestry England
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On our visit
Wildlife: Small birds in the forest, beetles.
Weather: Temperature in mid teens, sunny intervals, breezy.
Also on this walk
📌 Hindhope Linn ★★
On the Hindhope Burn, G.R.: NY 780998 ///foggy.firm.surfer
💬 Quickest access to the waterfall is a 15-min walk using the outward route described above.
Chronological photo guide
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[Start of the walk at Blakehopeburnhaugh] |
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[Forest paths] |
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[Steps descend to Hindhope Burn] |
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[Beetling about] |
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[Hindhope Linn] |
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[Hindhope Linn] |
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[Hindhope Burn] |
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[Blakehope Burn] |
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[Blakehope Burn] |
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[Woodland return] |
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