Walking St Oswald’s Way, Stage 1: Heavenfield to Portgate

Easter Monday, 2026 and my middle son, new baby and I set off on a pilgrimage. St Oswald's Way runs 100 miles from Heavenfield on Hadrian's Wall to Berwick-upon-Tweed on Northumberland's Scottish border. A much less well-known National Trail than the Hadrian's Wall path, which we walked last year, it has been calling out to... Continue Reading →

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Walking to Holy Island, the Pilgrim’s Way

Situated on the Northumberland coast close to Bamburgh and Berwick-upon-Tweed, Holy Island, or Lindisfarne, is a place you should go out of your way to visit, if you are ever in the area. It was here that St Cuthbert (634-687 A.D.) presided over the monastery that would go on to produce the breathtakingly beautiful Lindisfarne... Continue Reading →

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