The road to Weardale
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Image: © Gordon Hatton Taken: 22 Mar 2018
This minor road climbs out of Newbiggin and over the moor top at Swinhope Head before descending into Weardale. Here it is just leaving the cultivated land at around the 400m contour before crossing miles of open moor.