It started well from Northallerton High Street, on footpaths, to the pretty village of Brompton. From Welbury to West Rounton and then to Picton it was more of the same with thick vegetation hiding bridge crossings, broken or no stiles, locked gates, waist high grass in some places. From here the route was easy to follow across fields, woods and footpaths through Kirklevington, ending in Yarm High Street....

Jeanne Hetherington

However, there was no signage to show the right of way, and the field we needed to cross ( and the route suggested straight through the middle of the field was the way to go) was just just thigh high long grass all the way. We were left having to circumnavigate a huge slurry heap and pools of stinking ‘liquid’, which was sat right across the suggested public right of way, on quite uneven land and yet more extremely long grass, and then between the farm and the house there were 2 5-bar gates to walk through about 20 yds apart, both of which clearly hadn’t been opened for some time and the overgrowth between the two ( now waist-high), made it quite a tricky part of the walk.. Once safely past Northfield House we then stayed on the Coast to Coast path along the farm access track down to meet Long Lane and continue on. The Slow Ways route actually takes you over a field to access Long Lane via a stile, but once again there was no stile to be found just heavy hedge planting so the farm access track was our preferred option here. We both agreed on reflection that actually a better option would be to have stayed on Fullicar Lane, pass Stobthorns Farm and stay on that farm access road until you meet Long Lane, turn left at this junction and walk up to Wray House, where you are back on track, avoiding all obstacles, missing stiles, and locked and/or blocked gates. A small length of road walking here again before crossing Low Lane to climb up through a couple of fields ( both with disinterested cattle) and passed Carrbridge Farm....

Rosemary McNulty

After a short section of road pavement, you're onto Barwick Lane which is a surprisingly lovely cycle/pedestrain path into the centre of Ingleby Barwick....

Jo Paterson

From here the pathway follows the river to Middleton One Row, a very pretty village with a hotel and extensive village green. The only road walking follows a fairly quiet road into Neasham for about a quarter of a mile or so and then follows the Tees Way road along a broad footpath into Hurworth....

Jeanne Hetherington

A really well signposted walk and good well set paths along tracks, through woodland and over fields linking Yarm to Hurworth on Tees, for most part hugging the beautiful River Tees. Only one part of the walk ( just after Neasham Grange Farm and before we walked past the beautiful red brick dovecote building on the outskirts of Middleton One Row) was the path quite overgrown with nettles. After passing the dovecote you walk past a lovely little weir on the river, then emerge into the pretty village of Middleton One Row....

Rosemary McNulty