Whether you want a full day's hiking or a gentle stroll, Walkingworld walks are the best that you can get. Each walk has easily followed instructions with a photograph for every decision point on the route, and a downloadable Ordnance Survey map. Most walks are on footpaths or tracks and the database includes many sections of the National Paths. Click on Home (above) for more details of Walkingworld.

Walks in "Durham"     County Index

Name length (KM) Grade
Circular Walk by Wolsingham12.3Easy Walk
Easington Colliery8.36Easy Walk
Bishop Auckland - Jock's Bridge - Bishop's Bridge - New Coundon - Bishop Auckland5Easy Walk
Weardale Way - Westgate to Cowshill7.57Easy Walk
"Hamsterley Forest: Blackling Hole, Whisky Gill"2.42Easy Walk
"Hamsterley Forest, Bedburn Valley"3Easy Walk
Hawthorn6.49Easy Walk
Grassholme Reservoir - Hury Reservoir16.1Moderate Walk
Seaham3.85Easy Walk
Tunstall Reservoir3.54Easy Walk
Littletown - High Haswell - Littletown6.44Easy Walk
Hutton Henry - Hurworth Burn Reservoir9.27Moderate Walk
Crimdon Dene5.54Easy Walk
Cow Green Reservoir - Cauldron Snout6Gentle Stroll
Sunderland Bridge - Whitworth Hall Country Park - River Wear10.47Easy Walk
Weardale Way: Chester-le-Street to Durham10.03Moderate Walk
Witton le Wear5.46Easy Walk
Durham Peninsula5Easy Walk
Barnard Castle - Deepdale - Lartington - Barnard Castle9.66Moderate Walk
Cotherstone - Romaldkirk - Cotherstone9.2Easy Walk
Edmundbyers Common15Moderate Walk
"Waskerley, Castleside and Horsleyhope "12.08Moderate Walk
Haswell to Hart14.49Easy Walk
Waldridge Fell4Easy Walk
Brancepeth - Tallyho Gate - Brancepeth8.05Easy Walk
Stanhope - Crookledy Crag - Stanhope4Easy Walk
Cassop Vale6.44Easy Walk
Denemouth and Blackhall Colliery3.7Easy Walk
Bowlees - Dirt Pit - High Force - Bowlees6.44Easy Walk
Houghall Discovery Trail4.03Easy Walk
Weardale Way: Witton le Wear to Wolsingham12.51Moderate Walk
Stanhope - Stanhope Dene - Stanhope Burn Mine6.44Easy Walk
Weardale Way: Wolsingham to Frosterley7.63Easy Walk
Egglestone Abbey - Greta Bridge - Brignall10.3Moderate Walk
Shincliffe Wood5.18Easy Walk
Denemouth - Durham Coastal Path - Horden4.91Easy Walk
Weardale Way: Durham to Sunderland Bridge9.26Moderate Walk
Brignall Banks - Brignall Mill - Greta Bridge – Brignall11.27Moderate Walk
Blackhall Rocks5.31Easy Walk
Bishop Auckland - Sunny Brow4.83Gentle Stroll
Hardwick Hall Country Park (Durham)2Gentle Stroll
Weardale Way: Fatfield - Chester-le-Street7.58Moderate Walk
Seaham Hall Beach - Easington Colliery8.86Easy Walk
Beamish Woods - Causey Arch and Railway - Beamish6.44Easy Walk
Dalton le Dale - Dawdon6.5Easy Walk
Dipton - Hamsterley Mill - Dipton7Easy Walk
Cassop Vale - Cassop Moor - Old Quarrington 8.89Moderate Walk
Cow Green Reservoir - Pennine Way - Cauldron Snout12.88Hill Scramble
Westgate and Middle Hope Valley8.28Easy Walk
"Barnard Castle, Green Lane and Mount Eff Lane."6.44Easy Walk
Bishop Auckland - Escomb - Bishop Auckland7.5Easy Walk
Cold Hesledon7.79Easy Walk
Croxdale Hall10.8Moderate Walk
Bowlees - High Force - Cronkley Bridge - Dirt Pit 12.59Moderate Walk
Around Cockfield Fell7.25Easy Walk
Lumley Park and Castle (Chester-le-Street) 5.6Easy Walk
Bedburn - Hamsterley Forest - Potato Hill - Bedburn 9.66Easy Walk
"Etherley Dene, Escomb and the River Wear"5Easy Walk
Weardale Way: Sunderland Bridge to Bishop Auckland 13.01Moderate Walk
Witton-le-Wear3.2Easy Walk
Derwent Gorge and Muggleswick Woods Circular9.66Moderate Walk
Durham City8Easy Walk
Wolsingham and Tunstall Reservoir8.81Moderate Walk
Weardale Way: Bishop Auckland to Witton le Wear7.91Moderate Walk
Middleton-in-Teesdale - Grassholme Reservoir13.17Moderate Walk
Oakenshaw Nature Reserve3.22Gentle Stroll
Low Barnes Nature Reserve (Witton Le Wear)2Gentle Stroll
Middleton-in-Teesdale - High Force - Middleton-in-Teesdale16.1Easy Walk
Castle Eden Dene5.5Easy Walk
High Moorsley - Pittington Hill5.64Easy Walk
Whitworth Hall Country Park - Byers Green and Back6.68Easy Walk
Brafferton12.88Moderate Walk
Forest-in-Teesdale - Pennine Way - Langdon Beck9.61Moderate Walk
Weardale Way - Frosterley to Stanhope8.94Moderate Walk
Bowlees Picnic Area - Low Force - Bowlees Picnic Area4.03Easy Walk

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