Location OS Landranger sheet 87 Start point NY 964504 
Length 5 Miles
How to get there From A68 south of Corbridge take B6306 west through Edmonbyers (Sharp right in the village take your time) to car park North through village.
A circular walk up onto the moors. Views down into the River Allen valley.
Blanchland is a beautiful village attracting many visitors. You will see very few of them on your walk. Pictures of the village at the end of the walk.
Download walk instructions Click Here
See also Blanchland 2 (the walks can be conjoined)
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My pictures of Northumberland
Start:- Turn right from the car park, cross the road and then take the first lane, left. Follow the waysign immediately left again.
PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT THERE IS
A BAN ON WALKING DOGS ON SOME STRETCHES OF THE WALK
IN THE INTERESTS OF BIRD NESTING PROTECTION
At the highest part of the track a footpath turns up through the bracken to a gate.
Through the gate follow the fence left, down along the side of the field and on the grassy track to a metal gate. Beyond this gate the path leads past a shed and cottage gardens to another gate.
This is Shildon. Take the roadway down toward the old Iron Mine and take a right following the road up the hill towards Pennypie House.
Beyond the gate take the road going right, to the next corner a few hundred yards on, to where a direction sign points left over Bulbeck Common to Burntshield Haugh.
Take this path.
Go through a gate in the wall and follow the track south. This track is a stretch of the ancient "Carrier's Way"
Before the gate, down to the left on the fell is a superb sheepfold, accessible over a stile. A detour is recommended
Following the track beyond the gate will bring you to another gate and on again to a stone enclosure.
