Isaac's Tea Trail, Allendale

Ramblings

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Nature, Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Science

4.5 • 768 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Clare Balding returns to her favourite county, Northumberland, to walk part of Isaac's Tea Trail, a thirty-six mile (58km) circular route, starting from Allendale. This long distance path, launched in 2002, was inspired by the tale of Isaac Holden, an itinerant tea seller and philanthropist who in Victorian times was a familiar figure on the rough tracks over Allendale Common and Alston Moor. Clare is accompanied on her walk by Roger Morris who devised and maintains the route, Andy Lees ,from The north Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and retired journalist Anne Leuchars, who blogs about the route and has walked it all . She explains why the area is her adopted home and the very special role Isaac played in the local community. The walk starts at Keenley Wesleyan Methodist Church and ends at Holden Hearse house. Grid Ref : NY803567 End ref at NY782523 Producer Lucy Lunt.

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0:38.1	sounds. This is a BBC Radio 4 download. You're listening to me, Claire Balding with another
0:44.5	edition of Ramblings. Today on Ramblings, we have come to my favourite county. I promise you, this is my
0:52.3	number one. We're in Northumberland. Not far from
0:55.1	Hexham and I'm going to walk a section of a relatively new walk called Isaac's T-Trail. You'll find out
1:01.4	all about Isaac and the route that we're taking. But if you want to sort of take a close interest in
1:06.6	where we're going, we're on Ordnance Survey Land Ranger 87, which is Hexham and Holt Whistle,
1:12.6	and we are starting not far from the Keenley- Wesleyan Methodist Church, which is good reference,
1:18.1	NY803-567, and we are going to be walking. Well, I'll find out actually how far we're going to
1:23.8	be walking and in which direction from Anne, Lucas, Andy Lees and Roger Morris, who are waiting here.
1:29.3	We've all got our hats and gloves on it.
1:31.2	It's a chilly winter's day, but look at this. We've got sunshine.
1:34.6	Glorious. We're going to get some views, aren't we?
1:36.5	We are. We're definitely going to get some views. That's. I'm just, I get a sort of buzz and I start having to jump up and down because I'm a bit fond of Northumberland.
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