Start the walk from the car park of the Walter Wilson store behind the main street. Leave the car park by it’s main entrance and turn right up Fair Hill and continue to the top a distance of about 200 yards.
Turn left down a footpath between a new housing development and a detached house. The path is signposted to ‘Pyke Dyke Neul’. Continue on this path through a kissing gate and along a clearly defined path with a playing field on your left, until you reach another kissing gate at the bottom of the field.
Turn left with the Haltwhistle Burn on your right continue on to a metalled road. Turn right and very shortly turn right again to cross the burn. Over the burn turn immediately left and go through a kissing gate. Follow a clearly defined path, which was an old mineral railway, this will take passed a picnic area and over a footbridge, so the burn is on your right. Pass through another kissing gate and over another footbridge, past a tall chimney and disused drift mine.
One more kissing gate and footbridge will take you up to the Military Road. Turn right along the road and walk on the grass verge to the crossroads. Turn left down the road signposted to ‘Cawfields’ and after a few hundred yards take the footpath which is signposted on the left to Milecastle on the wall.
Turn right at Milecastle and walk along the wall until you reach a metalled road. Cross over the road and turn right to cross a vallum and head for the left corner of the stone wall in front of you where you will join a farm track which leads back to the Military Road.
Cross the Military Road and metalled road to the farm on the right called ‘Hallpeatmoss’. Immediately passed the farm take the stile on your right, quickly followed by another. Head diagonally left for the far bottom corner of a large field and cross the ladder stile over the wall.
Follow the stone wall on your left to reach a stone stile over the wall. Climb slightly to your right to reach a rough farm track, bear right along this until you reach a field gate. Initially keep to the stone wall on your right and then gradually move away from it and aim to cross the line of overhead electric cables just to the right of the pylon before crossing a small stream a ford.
Aim for the field gate on the skyline. Pass through the gate and bear right over a rough grass field and to the right of an old cottage called ‘Hollincrag’ and then through a field gate. Follow the farm track which turns first left and then right before passing two field gates in the wall, before going through another metal field gate.
The track continues until you reach the highway by way of another metal field gate. Turn left and after a short distance take the signposted path on the right. Stay close to the stone wall on your left until you reach the far corner. At a bend in the path a stream runs under the path and then flows on the right of the path.
Go through a metal kissing gate and follow the stone wall on the left down a steep hill to a metal kissing gate at the bottom of the field. Cross a track and go down a flight of wooden steps to a footbridge over the Haltwhistle Burn and then up a steep flight of stone steps to a metal kissing gate a the top
Take the path back to Fair Hill. turn right and at the bottom turn into the
car park.