Byrness
230½ MILES ALONG THE PENNINE WAY FROM EDALE
Accommodation
Forest View Walkers Accommodation
Mr & Mrs Colin & Joyce Taylor
7 Otterburn Green, Byrness, Northumberland, NE19 1TS[MAP]
Tel: 01830 520425 or 07928376677
Email: joycetaylor1703@hotmail.co.uk
Website: www.forestviewbyrness.co.uk
Info: 18 beds in 2, 3 & 4 bedded rooms; 4-star Visit Britain inspected property with a good drying room and small shop on site. Two course evening meal £8, packed lunch £5; Fully Licenced, and we stock 16 different bottle-conditioned real ales.
Option of a two-night stay with a lift to/from Trows,
1¾ miles from Russell's Cairn, halfway between Byrness and Kirk Yetholm (£5 per trip). Price from £17pppn.
OS Grid Ref: NT764027
Border Forest Caravan Park
Cottonshopeburnfoot, Otterburn, Northumberland, NE19 1TF
Tel: 01830 520259
Type: B&B accommodation, Camping and Caravan Site
Info: Just off the Pennine Way 1 mile prior to Byrness
The Byrness
Byrness Village, Near Otterburn, Northumberland, NE19 1TR
Tel: 01830 520231
Type: Guest House accommodation and Camping Site
Info: On the Pennine Way
Camping
Border Forest Caravan Park
Cottonshopeburnfoot, Otterburn, Northumberland, NE19 1TF
Tel: 01830 520259
Type: B&B accommodation, Camping and Caravan Site
Info: Just off the Pennine Way 1 mile prior to Byrness
The Byrness
Byrness Village, Near Otterburn, Northumberland, NE19 1TR
Tel: 01830 520231
Type: Guest House accommodation and Camping Site
Info: On the Pennine Way
Public Transport
National Express coaches stop here every day in both directions, and there is also a local bus service every day except Sunday.
Click here for bus service information:
www.traveline.org.uk/index.htm
Hexham Train Station is located in
Station Road, Hexham, Northumberland, NE46 1EU [Map]
Bus Services at Hexham Train Station connect to
Bellingham, Byrness, Greenhead and Once Brewed (Twice Brewed) on the Pennine Way
Notes on the Final Stage of the Pennine Way
This final section of the Pennine Way, Byrness to Kirk Yetholm, is known in polite circles as `a bastard’. The distance is 27 miles, and includes over 1600 metres of ascent.
However, there are ways and means of breaking the 27-mile walk into more comfortable mileages:
Option 1: Do not visit The Cheviot. This saves 2 miles and at least an hour in time. Perfectionists may insist the Pennine Way walker should visit The Cheviot, but in truth most Pennine Way walkers ignore it, and some refuse even to make eye contact with it.
Option 2: Rest the night in one of the two refuge huts and hope there is room.
Option 3: Descend to B&B accommodation part-way along the route, making up the height the next day.
Old Photograph of Catcleugh Reservoir
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Reproduced courtesy of Francis Frith.