10.6 miles
Explorer Map No 309, - Durham and Sunderland
Choose a fine day and this will be a superb walk.
Starting from Lyons Lake in Hetton Lyons Country Park, you have
a brief exposure to Hetton-le-Hole itself before continuing through
Hetton Park and Hetton Bogs to Rainton Meadows Nature Reserve.
The walk then continues to East Rainton, High Moorsley and Low
Pittington before returning via the old railway track bed to Hetton-le-Hole.
All paths are clear and well defined, and there are no gradients
of any concern.
Plenty of views and plenty to see in as regards natural history.
For a Memory Map overlay of the walk described, please select the
above link.
(Overlay made with Version 4 of Memory Map)
Some new mapping software is now availabe which you may want to try, - QUO mapping. You can download the software for free from the link below, complete with demonstration maps. Having installed QUO, you can import and export Memory Map overlays. Thus YOU DON'T NEED Memory Map to use any of the overlays provided on the Grey Panthers website, - just use QUO!!
The walk was taken from one published in "Country
Walking".
By selecting the thumbnail image below, the walk as decsribed in Country
Walking is shown on a large sized JPG image.
