Pennine Way Days 15 & 16 - Byrness to Kirk Yetholm
The wonders of the Cheviot Hills reveal themselves over 2 glorious days
Difficult Hiking
- Distance
- 44 km
- Ascent
- 1.6 km
- Descent
- 1.7 km
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The wonders of the Cheviot Hills reveal themselves over 2 glorious days
Difficult Hiking
Explore the Western Pentlands with a rather boggy, but beautiful ridge walk providing fantastic views!
Moderate Hiking
Follow gravel roads and grassy tracks alongside stone walls and wood fences, through farmland and rolling moorland, then into historic West Linton with its charming brick buildings and clock tower.
Moderate Hiking
Warm the legs with a climb up aptly-named Wideopen Hill, then continue through surrounding towns and farmlands, passing one old castle, and bridging River Teviot near Monteviot House.
Moderate Hiking
Rejoin the River Tweed and follow it through a valley of verdant pastures between wooded hills.
Easy Hiking
Leave town roads in the valley for tracks through hilly moorland and forest with abundant elevated viewpoints.
Moderate Hiking
Follow an Old Roman Road, then paths along the meandering River Tweed and through St Boswells village, then between the Eildon Hills to finish near the stately Melrose Abbey.
Moderate Hiking
A superb long distance trek from the Lowlands to the Highlands, across the country of Scotland.
Difficult Hiking
The classic natural ridge line trail out of Peebles
Difficult Mountain Biking
Classic black-graded XC trail at the UK's leading MTB trail centre.
Severe Mountain Biking
A fantastic trail ride up to the views of the windswept Minch Moor before a fast, flowy, and rocky descent.
Severe Mountain Biking
The route covers the full length of the River Tweed that, for a number of miles, acts as the border between Scotland and England.
Difficult Hiking
Pass through fields and the tiny village of Carlops, then ascend a grassy glen with groves of pine into heather moorland of the Pentland Hills, and down the other side into boggy farmland.
Moderate Hiking