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County Durham Ramblings - A walk around Butterwick Moor

  Butterwick is a small, agricultural based hamlet which is situated approximately 2 miles due East of Sedgefield in County Durham in open farmland. According to Wikipedia Butterwick was originally mentioned in history in 1156 when it was called Boterwyk which loosely translates to butter farm. Roll the clock forward nearly nine hundred years and I would say the name is as apt now as it was then. I actually did this walk in April 2023 as part of my seemingly never ending quest to walk every public right of way on the Ordnance Survey explorer map number 305, and was the first time I'd walked in this part of the county. The walk itself starts and finishes at a convenient lay by at the junction of Salter's Lane and Butterwick Road. Salter's Lane being a public bridleway. The lay by is large enough to park safely off the road and also boasts a dog waste bin for dog walkers.  The above map shows the basic route along with the start/finish point which is SE of Fishburn on Butterw

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