Walking: Walk, Cotherstone - Romaldkirk, Teessdale

Walk, Cotherstone - Romaldkirk, Teessdale, Approximately 4.0 mile 6.2 Kilometers.

As this walk is along an old railway it is flat and relatively straight but we did come back the same way as we went.

We left via the back gate of the Caravan Club Site, Doe Park just outside Cotherstone, the Twins were with us on the their bikes, so its a good job it was a flat walk. We followed the path across the field until we came to the the The Tees Valley Railway Path, which follows the path of the old Barnard Castle to Alston line. We turned right and followed the path.

The path is very well surfaced and it was quite easy for the girls to ride along. Just before Romaldkirk the path slopes up and veers away for the old railway, as the old route passes through some private property. There is a picnic table there so we have our food before continuing with the walk.

The next part of the walk was quite dangerous for children, as we had to walk along a short stretch of road with no path to walk on. It would all be safer and nicer if the path just continued along the old rout of the railway into to village. We walked through the village and back up to the railway path but nobody wanted to go any further, so we went back into the village to find a shop for an ice cream.

There isn't a shop but there are two pubs, so we sat out side one of them instead. Inside I ordered two beers and two ice cream, I took the beer back outside, the ice creams were going to be brought out by the waitress. Well the girls were most displeased when I told them there was no ice cream, "thats not fare you have a beer" they said. You should have seen their faces when their ice creams arrived in posh bowls with fancy wafers.