Happy Valley Walks

This 4 mile walk is a circuit on rough tracks and quiet roads around a quiet valley near Wooler. It runs out through grazing and farmland and back along the flood plain.

To reach Happy Valley, leave Wooler along Cheviot Street and continue along the minor road beyond. Cut right at the first junction, then follow the road to Middleton Hall before turning right onto the road signposted to Langleeford. Park in a space to the right of the road just after it joins the burn.

Walk along the road, towards the bridge across the Carey Burn. Climb the slope beyond and walk on, with an oak wood spreading down the valley slope to the left.

When a fence comes in from the right, go around it and cut right, on a well trodden path. Continue in this direction until a dyke and a line of hawthorns cross ahead. Turn left, and follow the dyke to the foot of the field; then turn right, through the gate, and follow the path beyond along the edge of the valley, towards a plantation.

Cross the style to the right of this and continue, keeping the trees to the left. At the edge of the field cross a further style, and then a footbridge. Climb the slope beyond to join a track. Turn left to reach Middleton.

Once the track reaches the road turn left, and go as far as the ford over the burn. To the left of the ford is a footbridge. Cross this and turn left, along a clear track through dense conifer and broad leaved woodland by the burn side.

When the woodland ends continue across the grazing land on the flood plain, back to the bridge. At one point the burn swings to the north, and it is necessary to follow a path through the gorse scrub up to the right.