7.6 miles/12.2 km
Total miles: 204 miles/329 km
Today marked the eastward transition of the Pennine Way from Greenhead before it begins its push to the border. We deliberately made today a shorter day at only 12km to give us a more manageable day tomorrow as we head into Bellingham, the last town of any size before Scotland.
It was nice to have such a short day today so we made the most of it so only leaving Greenhead at 10 AM. The trail almost immediately came upon Thirlwall Castle just outside town. Thirlwall means ‘gap in the wall’ in old English and refers to a break in Hadrian’s wall. The castle was built with stone from the wall and the nearby Roman fort of Carvoran.
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