(S/E) Start from the car park in Elsdon. Cross the bridge back into the village and turn left, following the road to Newcastle and Morpeth around the village green.
(1) Just outside the village take the right hand fork (signed Newcastle) over the bridge with metal railings. Cross the small stile on your right. Head straight across the field, cross the small footbridge and follow the line of the wall/fence up the hill (keeping the fence on your right). At the corner of the field go through the gate on your right and follow the grass track to the line of trees ahead of you. Follow the footpath along the original cart track to Haining.
(2) Pass in front of the house, now derelict, go through an old gateway and follow the wall on your left as it turns the corner. Now head for the dense block of conifers on the skyline in front of you. At the conifers, the footpath then follows the fence line on your left to a gate onto the road.
(3) Go through the gate on the other side of the road. Castle Hill lies on your right, keeping the wall on your left walk over Gallow Hill, stopping to admire the view at the highest point. Continue to follow the wall to the gate in the corner of the field. Go through the gate and keeping the wall now on your right, head for Hillhead Cottage. Go through a small wooden gate and follow the line of the old wall on the ground almost up to the house.
(4) At the corner of the house turn left and walk to a stile in the fence. Cross the stile and walk downhill to the barn ahead of you. At the tarmac farm track turn right and then left over the ladder stile after the barn. Go straight down the field and through the gate at the bottom.
(5) Follow the road back to the village. (S/E)
