Rowlands Gill to Consett 		 

 

You now leave Gateshead - Tyne & Wear and enter County Durham

Right across road then left through picnic area / car park to re-join the railway path again - cross the river viaduct and continue ahead.


A typical scene on the Derwent Walk
picture courtesy Gateshead Council

Pass over two lofty viaducts and cross the B6310 twice (rail overbridges removed) and ahead several miles to the end of the Derwent Walk.

Bear left on SUP - over school access road and alongside cemetry wall to A691 - use Toucan crossing and jink left right onto off road SUP.

Choice of Route

Via Berry - only recommended for Mountain Bikes due to very rough track
Continue ahead on rough track - short section of road and rough track again along Berry Edge.
Cross A692 and follow track ahead to Lydgetts Junction and the Smelt Wagon.

Via Consett - and stamping point
Turn left into St. Aidan's Street - at church (L) cross road into Consett - Blackhills Park - bear right through park to exit.

Cross Park Road B6322 and jink right / left into Genisis Way - uphill passing on segregated cycle (SCP) passing 2 smelt wagons (R) then cross to other side of road and ahead to roundabou

For NCN 7 & C2C to Sunderland via Town Centre and stamping point turn left

Use cycle paths to continue ahead on SCP towards next roundabout. Bear right on to off road track and pass the Terris Novalis sculptures (L) - follow off road track and pass the Smelt Wagon to

Lydgetts Junction and the 4-way Millennium Milepost.

For NCN 7 & C2C to Sunderland direct - at 2nd Rbt. anti-clockwise and cross road

Use links below to continue

Terris Novalis
by Tony Cragg

Two stainless steel artworks, one a theodolite and the other an engineers level situated on the site of the old Consett steelworks.

The design is inspired by the regions industrial past but the sculptures boast feet of  various animal designs which may suggest a site returning to nature in the way that the site of the steelworks is now restored to gently rolling pasture and woodland.

Photo shows the cycleway from Lydgetts Junction
passing around the two sculptures towards Consett.
NCN routes 7 and 14

 


Smelt Wagon at Lydgetts junction - after repainting.
photo by David Grey - Sustrans

Choice of Route

Continue to Durham via Lanchester Walk

Back to Rowlands Gill

Continue to Sunderland - C2C

Waskeley Way - C2C

Places of Interest / Landmarks

Bridges

Doug on the Tyne 2004