Wannie Line walk
This circular walk takes you onto both the Wannie and Rothbury railway lines as they cross Wallington estate. Trains once steamed along these routes carrying stone, lime, coal and livestock, as well as passengers, although they have long since been abandoned and left for nature to reclaim. Along the trail you'll find other remnants of Wallington's industrial past, including an abandoned quarry and several old limestone kilns.
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WallingtonStart point
The car park behind the former National Trust Regional Office at Scot's Gap, grid ref: NZ037864Trail information
Total stages: 13
Total stages: 13
Start point
The car park behind the former National Trust Regional Office at Scot's Gap, grid ref: NZ037864
Stage 1
The walk begins at the back of the former National Trust Regional Offices. At the back of the car park, facing the field, turn right and then left, along a path between two fields. Turn right down some steps onto the Wannie Line. Walk along the line until it splits. Here you need to take the right-hand fork onto the Rothbury Line.
Stage 2
Once on the Rothbury Line carry on walking, passing over five bridges.
Stage 3
Keep going until the Line crosses the Delf Burn. Look out for a waymarker on your left, which takes you down off the line. Head right, across the corner of the field, and through a kissing gate. Continue on the path that follows alongside the burn.
Stage 4
Follow the path and waymarkers through the Delf Burn plantation, keeping the burn to your right. Exit the plantation through a kissing gate onto a field. Head diagonally right, across the corner of the field and though a small gate in the line of beech trees.
Stage 5
Once through the gate, cross directly over the field to the fence line opposite. Turn left and keep to the fence line, turning right and then left, until you reach a field gate on your right. Go through the field gate, straight across the field and through a kissing gate onto a green lane.
Stage 6
Once on the green lane, walk straight ahead, past the farm. Continue past an old stone farm building and down the hill towards the road. Cross over the road and into the field on the left.
Stage 7
Walk down through the fields, with the boundary on your right. At the far end, turn left down the field edge until you reach the farm track.
Stage 8
Turn right onto track and follow it across the stream and past the cottage on your left.
Stage 9
Directly after the cottage turn left off the track onto another field. Walk with the wood on your left and cross over a little bridge. Carry on in this line, uphill across the field, looking out for a stile. Go over the stile and immediately turn right and walk along the field edge, going over a ladder stile and a small bridge. Continue along the field edges with the hedge line on your right.
Stage 10
Go through a kissing gate into a block of woodland and exit through another gate at the far side. You will see Chesters Farm on your right. Carry on in this direction, down another field, crossing over a bridge and going through a kissing gate. Follow the field edge before entering another woodland block. Once through this block you can see the Wannie Line ahead. Cross the field and go over a bridge towards the kissing gate up onto the line.
Stage 11
Once on the line turn left through the belt of trees. Continue to follow the railway line until you reach the road. Cross straight over the road and back up onto the line at the other side.
Stage 12
Continue along the line. You will climb some steps and cross another road at Rugley Walls before descending back onto the line.
Stage 13
Keep following the Wannie Line and you will end up back where the two railway lines join. Retrace your steps back to the car park at Scot’s Gap.
End point
The car park behind the former National Trust Regional Office at Scot's Gap, grid ref: NZ037864
Trail map
Wallington's Wannie Line trail map May 2024 | © GIS
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