County Durham Rambles - Lumley Castle to Penshaw Monument
Two years ago I started walking the Weardale Way from Killhope in upper Weardale to Roker beach at Sunderland. The brief as far as I was concerned was to walk it section by section using wherever possible public transport and avoid out and back routes. Up until reaching Chester Le Street this had worked rather well, or should I say the logistics had been quite simple with the respective start and finish points being connected by a convenient bus routes, or in the case of the Bishop Auckland to Durham and subsequent Durham to Chester Le Street sections a train.. I always knew however, that the twenty odd miles from Chester Le Street to Roker were going to be a problem; something which was only exasperated when I injured my right leg. Prior to injuring my leg I would have hoped to have walked this section in it's entirety, sadly this is now out of the question and I had to break it into two. After some thorough researching of various bus company timetables I discovered that Go
