5.5 miles
Explorer Map OL31, - North Pennines, Teesdale & Weardale.
You don't need an OS map for this walk. Instead, a trail guide is
obtainable (fre) from the Hamsterley Forest Visitors Centre.
The route followed is the Three Becks Walk.
Almost all of the route provides easy walking. However, there is one
section where there is a steep and slippery descent and great care
is needed.
This section is found on a track from the Southernmost point of the
walk on the way to the Bedburn Beck.
For a Memory Map overlay of the walk described, please select the above
link.
(Overlay made with Version 5 of Memory Map)
Some new mapping software is now available 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!!
Start from the main car park in Hamsterley Forest, near
the Visitors Centre (NZ09258 31191). Fee to pay.
Collect a trail guide from the Visitors Centre.
Follow the Three Becks Walk, clearly indicated by markers with a white
arrow on an orange background.