Independent Trails: Fact File NCCSB1

Bamburgh to Warkworth

Trail Facts

Total distance: 26 miles (41.5km)

Duration: 3 nights, 2 days walking

Minimum/maximum daily distances: 12 miles (19 km)/14 miles (22.5 km)

Waymarking: The route is extensively waymarked and is very easy to follow

Season: All year

Starting point of holiday: Bamburgh

End of holiday: Warkworth

Tour code: NCCSB1

 

Itinerary

 

Day 1: Travel to Bamburgh

 

Day 2: Bamburgh to Craster                                      14 miles (22.5 km)

 

Day 3: Craster to Warkworth                                      12 miles (19 km)

 

Day 4: Depart from Warkworth

 

What's included?

 

• 3 nights accommodation in selected hotels, inns or guesthouses
• Full English breakfast
• Door to door luggage transfer along the trail
• Maps showing the route and a guidebook describing the trail
• An information pack containing an itinerary, detailed instructions on how to find your accommodation each night, town plans, information about facilities and places of interest along the trail and a kit list
• Detailed travel instructions on how to get to the start of your holiday and back from the end of it
• Emergency assistance

 

Travel Information

 

Detailed instructions on how to get to the start of the holiday and back from the end of it are sent to you on booking. A summary is given below.

 

Most convenient major city and International airports: (1) Newcastle or (2) Edinburgh.

(1) There are fast and frequent trains from Newcastle to Berwick-upon-Tweed. The journey takes 45 minutes. From Berwick there is a regular bus service to Bamburgh. The journey takes 40 minutes.

(2) The journey from Edinburgh to Berwick-upon-Tweed takes 50 minutes. From Berwick there is a regular bus service to Bamburgh. The journey takes 40 minutes.

 

Outward journey from London to Berwick-upon-Tweed: There are fast and frequent trains from London Kings Cross to Berwick-upon-Tweed. The journey takes 4 hours. From Berwick there is a regular bus service to Bamburgh. The journey takes 40 minutes.

 

Return journey to London at the end of the holiday: Bus from Warkworth to Alnmouth railway station (approximately 20 minutes), then train to London Kings Cross (3 hours 45 minutes).

 

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