Park in Embleton Village. We parked beside the hotel, opposite the village shop. Do not park at the front of the hotel, in the parking spaces, or in narrow streets. There is a little parking available next to the children's play park.
(S/E) From the road beside the hotel and village shop walk in an easterly direction, heading towards the coast. The narrow road has a good footpath on the left hand side as you descend to the golf club house. Pass beside the clubhouse and follow the path across the links until you come to a wooden bridge over the stream.
(1) Do not cross the bridge, but take the path on the right, this will lead you through the dunes and onto the beach. (It is possible to walk along the dunes if you wish as an alternative) Turn right and follow the beach, heading towards the castle. Follow the sand all the way to the start of some boulders.
(2) At the start of the boulders leave the beach and take an obvious path between the boulders and the dunes and then the side of the golf course. The path follows the coast and passes a WW2 pillbox before turning to the right and passing under the embankment of the castle, Contour around, beneath the castle and take the lower, right hand path heading towards a rocky gorse covered mound. (You can also take the left hand path and go up to the castle entrance. It is well worth exploring when it is open) The path passes between rocky outcrops and onto an open field where it crosses diagonally to a gate and the path from Craster.
(3) Go through the gate and follow the heavily trodden path back to Craster but look out for a grassy path on your right crossing the field diagonally. Take this up to the top corner.
(4) Cross a stile and follow the path down a natural break in the escarpment. Go through a gate and follow the path to Dunstan Square farm.
(5) Go through a gate and turn right, take the farm road towards Dunstan Steads, passing another WW2 pillbox and an old lime kiln on the far edge of the woods, a third ill box is in the field just past the woods.
(6) At the end of the track (Dunstan Steads) turn left and follow a farm track beside the field with the hedgerow on your right. This soon leads to an opening on the right. Go through the opening and into the next field, turn left immediately and follow the path with the field on the left; you are essentially walking straight on, but either side of the field boundary. At the corner of the field cross the stream and enter some woods. The path cuts through the woods and follows the edge until a path across the field is seen.
(7) Turn right and take the path over the field to the corner of a hedgerow opposite. Cross into the next field and cut diagonally over it into some trees to emerge onto the road. Turn left and follow the road to a junction.
(8) At the junction, cross to the other side and turn right. Follow the road and then path into Embleton.
(9) At the junction turn left and walk down past the play park, then turn right at the next junction, opposite the church, and walk to the hotel and your car. (An alternative from (9) is to go straight on and then turn left and walk past the village shop to your car. (S/E)
