We headed out of Corbridge along the main road before taking a left turn onto a quiet country lane and then re-joined the main road, which was manageable but not the most enjoyable....

Gemma

We headed out of town along the main road before taking a left turn onto a quiet country lane. We joined back up with the main road and walked along the grass verge for about 5-10 minutes. Setting off again we walked parallel to the train track and the River Tyne....

Emerald

It begins along a pavement on a busy road out of Corbridge, breaking away for a while along a woodland track and lane before rejoining. It’s then footpaths following fields and then up a track and across more fields until finally you cross over the busy A695....

Polly

Again, it's unpaved, but we eventually join a footpath that runs alongside the railway. We come out at pretty little Wylam station (it feels more like a heritage railway station rather than on the Carlisle-Newcastle mainline), and, through the opposite carpark, we join the reopened Keelmans Way: a metalled footpath, although wet or muddy in places, that runs alongside the river Tyne....

Hiking Historian

There is a mixture of walking on pavements and along quiet country lanes, with sections through agriculture and occasional woodland....

Philip Le Marquand

Walking from Prudhoe, I didn’t feel that Wylam Wood Road was at all bad, and it did afford some lovely views of Wylam Bridge and Hagg Bank Bridge (former railway) as they cross the River Tyne. From here, the cycle track route alongside the river was an absolute doddle, well-surfaced with good views of the river....

Mary Oz

At Thornbrough we returned towards the busy B road for a short section of verge-walking before turning off along a very quiet road designated as cycle route 72. Eventually we crossed the River Tyne and a slightly tricky road, to Stocksfield Station (trains available into Newcastle), where we had to cross the railway by a pretty stepped footbridge....

Mary Oz

Out of the trees and through a meadow, we reach the clutch of houses, where we carry on along the unpaved road ahead, which soon becomes an overgrown tarmac path that leads to another path in long grass running alongside the A69. A stile brings us onto a bridge over thr main road; it's unpaved, but we soon head down another footpath. It's uphill here, and we soon reach Toftshill Plantation, an explosion of oak and rhododendron. Paved until the hall, ahead it's uphill along a narrow unpaved road. Unpaved drives around the school bring us to fields, and we're soon heading downhill towards the A69. Through a field of wheat, we soon come down into Ovingham, passing the church on an unpaved road, then across the footbridge over the Tyne and into Prudhoe. An uphill climb on pavements, passing the castle, we're soon in the centre of the town and the end of the route....

Hiking Historian

This is a great route which is only spoilt by the short stretch of Wylam Wood Road and the footpath leading down to Wylam station....

Philip Le Marquand

Follow the path up through the woods rather than onto the fairways, and you should soon be passing the club house and carpark on the right hand side. Turn right at the road and follow this road around the back of the hotel and through the black gates. The path alongside the A69 is easy to follow and partly paved, but the noise from the road takes any rural joy away. When leaving the Medburn road at Woodhill Farm make sure you pick up the path after heading downhill through the first field....

Andyhoth

It then joins the Holeyn Hall Road from Wylam and continues along the road for 3-4 kilometres. The path alongside the A69 is easy to follow and partly paved, but the noise from the road takes any rural joy away. The turn Northwards away rom the A69 is marked by a small indicator on the fence next to the road, but there is no clear evidence of a path when I walked it, due to long grass in the field....

Andyhoth

As an alternative I would always contine a short way North at Hagg Bank, cross the railway and use the old train line route along the North bank of the river, before crossing and rejoining this route at Wylam station....

Andyhoth

This route has been repaired and is now open...

John Kelly

This was a great route but unfortunately due to a river bank slip the route has been closed for public safety by the local council The landowner, the council, EA and NR are all working on a solution but it could take 1-2 years to reopen the pathway....

muddy boots

The footpath from Brockhole Burn to Newton starts on the south west side of the field boundary and crosses it at the end of the first field - the OS map does not show this. The road through Newton is normally very quiet, but the short path shown on the map going from a minor road fork going north east does not exist....

roger newman