Hadrian Wall Path
Cawfields to Housesteads
Distance 10km Climb 350m
Sunday 1 June 2014
Again another walk I have been a little slow in writing up. Follow link to another time I did this walk as part of my Hadrian Wall Path.
It started as another nice day and there was a promise that it would get warm. We got off the buses at the Cawfield car park, once sorted we moved north of the pond in the disused quarry.
We turned eastwards through Hole Gap climbing up onto Cawfield Crags.
We dropped down and up at Thorny Doors. With the weather being good we had clear views in all directions all day, brilliant.
Following the Wall we dropped down to Caw Gap, crossed the road and climbed up the far side.
Up and down the Wall goes, continuing we moved east.
Another short drop and climb to Windshields Crags, for a short rest.
Moving along we passed the 345m trig point.
As the path dropped slightly we could see the heights of Steel Rigg and the waters at Crag Lough in the distance, a future part of our walk.
Crossing Peel Crags we continued east.
We dropped down hill and climbed up a a number of rises.
A fantastic view looking east over a mile castle towards Crag Lough.
After another short drop we came to the world famous Sycamore Gap - famous from the Kevin Costner film "Robin Hood Prince of Thieves". In an early scene in the film, a young lad is running from the Sheriffs men and their dogs and he climbs the tree to get away from them. Kevin Costner and Morgan Freeman save him.
We continued down and up to the path above Crag Lough. Walking through the trees gave us a little cover from the sun.
Passing Crag Lough we dropped down and turned north east and climbed back up to Hotbank Crags, where we turned more east.
The Wall continues east, we passed the path that turns north, along the Pennine Way. I have previously walked the Pennine Way. You can see how I got on if you look at the relevant posts on my blog. I have also walked the Roman Wall with Anne and my brother David, again you can check this out on other posts within my blog.
From Housesteads we turned south east and took the footpath downhill to the information centre where we met up with the buses. We had covered approx 10km with approx 350m climb. A very good day walking with very good friends.
More to follow.
Boz North
Details correct at time of walking.
If you have enjoyed reading my walk or found it useful you may also like to read other walks I have done on The Hadrian Wall Path or other areas. Please check out the links on the right hand side.
Follow link to when I walked this as Day 12 of my Pennine Way
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