Castle Close Industrial Estate Crook County Durham DL15 8LU

Parking is available at the Castle Close Industrial Estate in Crook. You can also access this route via public transport. Take the Arriva bus no. 49A or 49 from Durham to Crook. It will bring you to the Market Place from where you can easily get to the starting point.   

[1] On leaving the Castle Close Industrial Estate, turn right and cross the Crook to Howden le Wear Road.

Take care crossing this busy road.

[2] Turn right down the pavement towards Howden for 100 yards and where the road bears right, turn left into a road marked by a public footpath sign.

[3] Where the road turns right marked Hollowdene, continue straight ahead on an unmade track marked Beechwood Lane.

[4] Where this bends right, bear slightly left down a tarmac footpath between fences.

[5] Where this joins a road (Beechwood Park), cross the road and turn right along the road pavement.

Take care crossing this road.

[6] At the next junction turn left uphill, and then at the roundabout at the end bear half right down a path to the left of No. 93.

[7] Enter Glenmore Park through a hedge and turn right downhill along a tarmac path and follow this as it bears left and continues on the level to three pine trees and then turn left.

[8] Follow the footpath under some fir trees keeping a large property on the right. Where the footpath turns sharp right, follow it and exit onto the drive of the property and follow this to the main Crook to Howden le Wear road.

[9] Cross this road and turn left down the pavement and follow this back to the Castle Close Industrial Estate.

Take care crossing this road.

Crook AFC won the FA Amateur Football Cup on 5 occasions.  In 1913, they went on a tour of Spain and beat Barcelona twice.