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Few Northumberland landscapes compress so much later prehistory into such a small compass as the slopes around Rothbury.

On the north side of the valley sit Old Rothbury Hillfort and West Hills Camp. On the south side are Tosson Burgh and Lordenshaws.

All four occupy carefully chosen spurs, knolls and terrace edges above the middle reaches of the River Coquet, and all are now protected as Scheduled Monuments.

Jon, the Shepherd from Shepherds Walks, gives you his honest thoughts on Cheviot, which sometimes, and in his opinion justified, gets a bad press.

In my eyes to make it onto the list of the best long distance trails in Northumberland the walk has to be varied. I don’t want to walk for a week looking at the same type of landscape. I want the walking to vary from day to day.

Therefore these are my favourite long distance trails that we have or pass through Northumberland.