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Live timing and big screen: the Coquet Valley Challenge Walk goes high-tech (and gives back to Rothbury schools)

Live timing and big screen: the Coquet Valley Challenge Walk goes high-tech (and gives back to Rothbury schools)

For the first time, friends and family can follow walkers live around the route, track checkpoint progress and watch finish times appear in real time. Discover how Shepherds Walks is using technology to create a better event experience while supporting local schools through the Coquet Valley Challenge Walk.

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Four Hillforts of the Valley

Four Hillforts of the Valley

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.

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