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OS Map: OL42 Kielder Water and Forest. Distance: Six miles/10km. Time: Three to four hours. Directions: The route to Deadwater Fell from Kielder Castle is well way-marked with red posts and signs.
The iconic Lonesome Pine Mountain Bike Trail, a beloved feature of Forestry England’s Kielder Forest since 2009, has reopened on the third anniversary of Storm Arwen. While a huge swath of the ...
Kielder Forest will host the British Rally Championship in April after the Severn Valley Stages were cancelled due to the impact of Storm Darragh. Kielder Forest, the largest in England, has had ...
Trails which were closed for up to three years after Storm Arwen in 2021 are inaccessible to the public again following Storm Éowyn. Forestry England has temporarily shut all footpaths and ...
Kielder Forest in Northumberland on the England-Scotland border has just dropped a brand-new set of mountain biking trails, and they’re as wild as the landscape they carve through.
Kielder Forest accounts for 25% of England’s timber production. Once the ground has rested a bit, new saplings are planted with vigour and verve, with volunteers joining in. Tending, ...
Now, there are 10 nesting posts in Kielder Forest and the Northumberland Wildlife Trust has set up a high definition webcam for the Ospreys to be observed all hours of the day.
Work began on Kielder Water in May 1974 with 1,500 people on the job for seven years. The £176 million project saw families moved out of their homes and farms that would have been submerged by ...
Kielder supplies around 180 trees every Christmas for civic spaces, including to Ipswich, Sheffield and Stockton-on-Tees. It ensures the future supply of large trees by planting seedlings every year.