{"id":5671,"date":"2025-11-05T08:51:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T08:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/?page_id=5671"},"modified":"2025-11-06T11:35:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T11:35:55","slug":"newcastle-way-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/newcastle-way-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle Way – 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bryansford to Castlewellan and the Castlewellan lakes – 5th November 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wet and very windy start today, though things improved as the morning went on. Bryansburn to Castlewellan is mostly country roads then there is a loop around the forest on tracks, returning to Castlewellan via the castle for some lunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Heading away from Tolleymore forest this time. The sun trying to break through – unsuccessfully.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Heading up into the rain.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Looking back can still see little of the mountains.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The lake at Castlewellan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Supposedly a bronze age henge but little info available.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The lake from the far side.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The massive trees that came down in the recent storm that trapped me in Penrith.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The castle peeking through the trees.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Which has the de rigueur long driveway.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Back at Station Road where I started on Monday. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Newcastle Way now complete though I did the Newcastle to Dundrum bit a while ago in May. A need a further two days to add to this to complete the Mourne Way which will take me from Bryansburn to Rostrevor via Hilltown – someday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bryansford to Castlewellan and the Castlewellan lakes – 5th November 2025 Wet and very windy start today, though things improved as the morning went on. Bryansburn to Castlewellan is mostly country roads then there is a loop around the forest on tracks, returning to Castlewellan via the castle for some lunch. Newcastle Way now complete […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5671","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5671"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5685,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5671\/revisions\/5685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}