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Rookhope Arch – Groverake Mine Headframes loop from Stanhope

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Rookhope Arch – Groverake Mine Headframes loop from Stanhope

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Rookhope Arch – Groverake Mine Headframes loop from Stanhope

02:21

33.3km

650m

Cycling

Hard bike ride. Very good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: June 18, 2026

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North Pennines National Landscape

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4.77 km

View Across the Valley from the Coast to Coast Route

Highlight • Trail

Climb up from Rookhope and you are rewarded with this view

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7.14 km

Rookhope Village

Highlight • Cycleway

This former lead and fluorspar mining village was once described by WH Auden as 'the most wonderfully desolate of all the dales.' Indeed, it is superb walker's territory, surrounded by …

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8.72 km

Rookhope Arch

Highlight • Monument

Remains of the archs that carried the flue from the smelting mill

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12.1 km

Groverake Mine Headframes

Highlight • Historical Site

Groverake (or Grove Rake) mine is an area of abandoned headframes from what was once the largest mining operation in the region.

The mine originally produced ironstone between 1819 and …

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15.7 km

Allenheads to County Durham Border Climb

Highlight • Mountain Pass

Nice road climb out of Allenheads through a small forest. Ends at Durham/Northumberland border

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16.6 km

Gin Hill Mine Shaft

Highlight • Historical Site

There is little of the old mine itself, other than the narrow entrance to the mine shaft. Easy to confuse with a well, but the information board prevents that.

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