Greenlee Lough
Circular walk
Greenlee Lough is a lake and national nature reserve in Northumberland.
OS Map: OS map available here.
Photograph: Nilfanion at English Wikimedia
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Useful Information
How to get there: Follow the B6318 to the crossroads with the National Park Centre at Once Brewed. Take the turning signposted Steel Rigg.
Grid Reference: NY 747 690
Nearest Postcode: NE47 7AN
Parking: Permissive Car Park (or Steel Rigg Car Park, to the south).
The Walk
A walk around Greenlee Lough, close to Hadrian's Wall.
Map with thanks to Ordnance Survey.
Walk
1 Leave the car park and cross the Caw Burn over bridge, heading up the hill.
2 You will reach a sign to Greenlee Nature Reserve, head through the gate and walk ahead. Head through three further gates, and continue on the edge of the wood to the beginning of the boardwalk, continuing onto this, remaining on it as it heads around the Lough.
3 When you reach the end of the boardwalk, follow the path keeping the fence to your left, and through the gate at the corner of the wood. Heading along the edge of the woodland, keep the fence to your right, over a small bridge.
4 At the signpost, take a left following the path walking uphill. Take the path around the farm, turning left onto the farm track. Follow this track back to the car park.
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Say thanks with a coffee.
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