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Walking is one of Britain's favourite leisure activities, and this great pocket-sized walking guide to Durham & Northumberland features a variety of mapped walks to suit all abilities. Contained within the guide are 50 walks of 2-10 miles and all the practical detail you need, accompanied by fascinating background reading on the history and wildlife of the area, and an introduction to each walk. All walks are annotated with local points of interest and places to stop for refreshments. And every walk is given a summary of distance, time, gradient, level of difficulty, type of surface and access, landscape, dog friendliness, parking and public toilets.
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This guide, as suggested in the title, contains 50 (though some walks are entered twice as a short and extended walk) walks in the Durham, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear areas.
As with the Pathfinder Guides (Northumberland and the Scottish Borders: Walks (Pathfinder) and Durham, North Pennines and Tyne and Wear: Walks (Pathfinder Guides)) to the area it contains a snapshot at the start of each walk that runs through all the important information one would need in deciding whether to choose a particular walk - distance (in miles and kilometres), duration, gradient, level of difficulty, parking and landscape. Each walk also contains a sketch map to act as a guide, though unlike the Pathfinder Guide, you need to take an OS map with you as it is just a sketch map.
There are some good aspects to this guide book that set it apart from the Pathfinder Guide for the area, mainly in that it tends to offer walks in the areas of each region that the Pathfinder Guide does not, such as the Hexham area of Northumberland and the northern areas of County Durham. However, there are some aspects where the Pathfinder Guides offer advantages over this guide. The maps, as mentioned, are sketch maps, which are clear enough and can easily be marked on the equivalent OS map. However, one annoying thing about the sketch maps is the failure to draw each map with North at the top of the page, which admittedly is a small, yet inconvenient annoyance.
Overall, a good walking guide, though I would recommend that it is bought alongside the Pathfinder Guides mentioned to give a range of walks that covers the whole region.
As with the Pathfinder Guides (Northumberland and the Scottish Borders: Walks (Pathfinder) and Durham, North Pennines and Tyne and Wear: Walks (Pathfinder Guides)) to the area it contains a snapshot at the start of each walk that runs through all the important information one would need in deciding whether to choose a particular walk - distance (in miles and kilometres), duration, gradient, level of difficulty, parking and landscape. Each walk also contains a sketch map to act as a guide, though unlike the Pathfinder Guide, you need to take an OS map with you as it is just a sketch map.
There are some good aspects to this guide book that set it apart from the Pathfinder Guide for the area, mainly in that it tends to offer walks in the areas of each region that the Pathfinder Guide does not, such as the Hexham area of Northumberland and the northern areas of County Durham. However, there are some aspects where the Pathfinder Guides offer advantages over this guide. The maps, as mentioned, are sketch maps, which are clear enough and can easily be marked on the equivalent OS map. However, one annoying thing about the sketch maps is the failure to draw each map with North at the top of the page, which admittedly is a small, yet inconvenient annoyance.
Overall, a good walking guide, though I would recommend that it is bought alongside the Pathfinder Guides mentioned to give a range of walks that covers the whole region.
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