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The Pennine Way information board
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Climbing out of Bellingham - at 8am!
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Bellingham again
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Sign board at the first farm
- the farmer saw us taking a picture and assured us it was true!
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Whitley Pike... which way or which bog to go into.......?
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........the wrong bog because this one was Whitley Pike !
The last one was Deer Play hill
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9 miles and many ups, downs and bogs later ...
approaching Kielder Forest
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Down again..... !
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....and up again only to land in Rumbling Dike Bog ( yet another )
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Finally on a hard surface in Kielder Forest- a very hard surface after 16 miles!
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Kielder sign board
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A last gentle mile or two following the river Rede into Byrness
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St Francis of Assisi church now closed but used to be the Anglican parish church circa 1750
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A lonely 'Meandertal' far from home
and propped up by a sign board!
(The Meanderthals are another group of elderly walkers of which John is a member.)
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