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The Cheviot - Wednesday 11 June 2014

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 Hethpool - College Valley - Mounthooly - Auchope Cairn - Cairn Hill - The Cheviot - Scald Hill - Broadhope Hill - Coldburn - College Valley - Hethpool

Hethpool (Free) - Grid Ref NT894281

18 miles - in order to shorten the walk there is parking available at Cuddystone Hall - Grid Ref NT888252

Some road walking at either end of the walk on the College Valley road - other than that good mountain paths although there is a boggy section on Scald Hill but nothing too onerous

Warm & cloudy with good visibility

8hrs 20mins

3677ft (1120m)

OL16 - The Cheviot Hills (Jedburgh & Wooler)
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Walk Description

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We had been wanting to walk the College Valley for a while and therefore had planned a route where we could also get up on to The Pennine Way and get over to The Cheviot too.  We were staying near Wooler therefore we started the walk from nearby Hethpool where there is plenty of free parking on the edge of the village.

There is quite a bit of road walking at the start of the walk but this is on a very quiet track - we saw a handful of cars all day and anyway the views all around make up for this.  Passing Mounthooly Youth Hostel, the road ends and tarmac is replaced by springy turf as the route starts to ascend up on to the Auchope ridge with good views over to The Schil and West Hill.  Reaching the ridge you join the Pennine Way and the Auchope refuge hut soon comes into view.  There is now a steep ascent to gain Auchope Cairn from where there are good views over to The Cheviot.

The path from Auchope Cairn is now flagged and crosses very boggy ground, particularly at Cairn Hill where the flagstones really come into their own.  After another mile or so The Cheviot is reached and it is a shame to say it but the summit is a featureless place, let down by its breeze blocked Trig Point. If we were Pennine Way Walkers and had made the mile and a half detour to visit here we would feel a bit let down but after all a walk is still a walk at the end of the day.

Leaving The Cheviot the route heads down over intermittent boggy ground to Scald Hill and on to Broadhope Hill before joining a good but very long path back to Cuddystone Hall & the Memorial in College Valley.  The road is now followed all the way back to the start at Hethpool.  Whilst this is a long walk, the feeling of solitude both in the valley and up on the ridge is fantastic and it was good experience for our Pennine Way attempt next year.

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The Car Park at Hethpool - the starting point for this walk
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The road leaving the Car Park heading up College Valley
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The excellent track continues through the College Valley
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If you do not fancy the long road walk, cars can be parked here at Cuddystone Hall
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The Memorial over the road from Cuddystone Hall
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In such a small area there were at least 13 crash sites in The Cheviots
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Looking back down College Valley
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Mounthooly Youth Hostel
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The road track ends at Mounthooly and we were on to springy turf as we headed towards Auchope
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College Burn accompanied us virtually all the way to Auchope.......
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...... which Fudge really enjoyed.  The ridge up to Auchope can be seen behind him
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Auchope Cairn now in view - White Hill is to the left of the deep valley of Hen Hole
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Now on The Pennine Way - refuge hut and Auchope Cairn ahead to the right
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The refuge hut at Auchope - used by many a Pennine Way walker
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The gradual ascent to Auchope Cairn from the refuge hut
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The Schil
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Looking back down the ascent from the refuge hut - the path over to The Schil heads right
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One of the two Cairns on Auchope
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The well flagged path of the Pennine Way was most welcome - looking back to Auchope Cairn
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It was a bit boggy at Cairn Hill - thankfully the flagged path saved our boots........
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..... but not Fudge
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The summit of The Cheviot - not the greatest hill we have ever climbed for views.  The sterile breeze blocks underneath the Trig say it all really 
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Looking to the whale back of The Cheviot from near Scald Hill

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