There is some parking available, in a lay-by, at the road junction, at the western end of the village. Walk towards the centre of the village until you come to the church, on your left. Follow the path to the right of the church, continue heading north past Wheat Law, with the grassy dome on the left and the farm on your right. Descend alongside a plantation to the little valley of the Black Burn, which flows from a large pond, on your left. The track then rises slightly and continues to a surfaced road at West Wooley. Keep to the road, continue north-north-west to the North Road at Wooley.

Between the wars Wooley was a sanatorium for tuberculosis sufferers, then for a time it served as a convalescent home. Now it has been sold and the dilapidated wards have been pulled down. The right of way through the grounds has been diverted, a few yards to the west. Walk left along the road, past the smart new entrance gates, to a stile on your right, leading to a coniferous plantation. The path keeps to the east of the wood for a short distance then crosses diagonally left and follows the west side, through some trees down to a fence, which runs along the top of the bank above Dipton Burn. Turn left over the stile here, and keeping the bank-top fence fairly close alongside, on your right, pick your way through the slightly tangled woodland until the path emerges into the open. Still with the fence alongside. look for the stile in the far north-eastern corner, it is way-marked.

Go into the edge of Dipton Wood and follow the pine-needled path which keeps to a little spur down to the road in the Dipton Burn valley. Continue north on the road over the burn and up to the second gate on your right and the forest road to Lightwater cottages. Shortly before these are reached a sandy track leaves the road, to the left and goes straight up through the trees and occasional clumps of heather to the taller, more closely planted part of the wood. Where the track joins another forest track, bear left a little, and walk in a fairly straight line, north-easterly. The track is quite broad and clear, except where forestry clearing has churned up the ground and hidden the exact line, in wet weather these places are very muddy. An old broken wall which can be glimpsed at intervals on your right provides a useful guide, to those in doubt or without a compass. Eventually the track emerges onto the road at Corbridge Common.

Turn right and follow the road past Dipton Cottage, continue until the road bends to the right and you are travelling downhill. There is a gate, just past a wall enclosing the eastern edge of the plantation, turn right along the wide track under the tall trees. The handsome Dipton House is on the bankside over to your left. 

 Keep alongside the rather broken wall, ignoring any tracks off to the left, and follow the yellow way-markers down, to cross the Dipton Burn by a single plank bridge. Ascend the far bank on the narrow path towards the edge of the wood and the gorse bushes. In summer this path is crawling with ants, so picnicking is not advisable!

At the broad rough track, on your left, turn left between the walls and climb the ladder stile near Todburn Steel Farm. A few yards to the right is another stile into a field. Over this, turn left alongside a narrow plantation and through another gate a little to the right beyond that. Follow the western perimeter of the next field and come out onto the North Road via a stone stile in the corner. Cross straight over the road to another stone stile.

Continue down the field edge with the fence on your right, then cross the stile and continue south with the fence on your left. Cross the Black Burn by the double plank footbridge and follow the fence, on your left, roughly south-west to a stone stile, which takes you to the other side of the field boundary. Now walk with a short wall, then a fence, on your right, to the farm road at Peel Flatt. Turn right past the farmhouse and then turn to the left and go through the field gate and head for the left hand ladder stile, heading slightly downhill. Then, looking for the new tall ladder stile, ahead, turn to your right and walk through the fields, south, to a copse to the left of the caravan site at Slaley Townfoot. A low stone stile leads out onto the road. Walk west through the village of Slaley as far as the church. The Fox and Hounds, in the centre of Slaley, is open at lunchtime and serves bar meals, in a pleasant garden at a pleasant beer garden, at the back, in summer.