Walking the Teesdale Way - Redcar to Middlesbrough
Last year I completed the Weardale Way and it seemed a natural progression to walk the Teesdale Way in 2025. This I planned to do, albeit over the summer months. The trouble with plans however, is that they have a habit of changing, either that or sometimes the best plan is not to have one at all, which is why on the last Sunday of January I boarded a train for Redcar with the intention of walking the ten miles back to Middlesbrough. The Teesdale Way itself is approximately 90 miles long and runs between the village of Dufton (in Cumbria) which is situated in the Eden valley near Appleby in Westmorland and Redcar on the north Yorkshire coast. At the Redcar end there are two start/finish points one being at the South Gare which is at the mouth of the River Tees and the other on Redcar seafront itself. Having decided to walk from East to West (uphill) I also elected to start on Redcar seafront for the simple reason that I was travelling to Redcar by train and the statio...
