Walks you can reach from Billingham by train
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Horden to Hartlepool (Durham)
30 minutes direct from Billingham.
Recommended: A varied route through nature reserves and beaches.
Coastal: four fifths along the coast.
Time: 7h30 (6h walking, 1h30 lunch)
Warnings: About two miles around the port alongside a main road.
Walk details: Railwalks.
Seaham to Horden (Durham)
30 minutes direct from Billingham.
Recommended: A quiet walk, separated from built-up areas, with several steep climbs and descents.
Coastal: nine tenths along the coast.
Durham Coast (National Trust)
Time: 6h (4h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)
Lunch: No food or drink en route after Seaham.
Warnings: Several steep climbs and descents.
Walk details: Railwalks.
Sunderland to Seaham (Durham)
45 minutes direct from Billingham.
Recommended: Scenic for most of its length, with a choice of walking high, low, or on the beach.
Coastal: four fifths along the coast.
Time: 5h (3h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)
Walk details: Railwalks.
Stockton to Middlesbrough (Durham)
7 minutes direct from Billingham.
Recommended: A direct town-centre-to-town-centre route, under 20% on roads with the rest flat and well-surfaced tarmac path mostly along the riverside. Passes through a semi-industrial landscape and runs close to the river.
Waterway: two thirds along the River Tees.
Time: 3h30 (2h walking, 1h30 lunch)
Warnings: Follows a busy road for a sixth of the walk.
Walk details: Slow Ways.
Yarm to Stockton (Yorkshire)
7 minutes direct from Billingham.
Darlington to Stockton (Durham)
7 minutes direct from Billingham.
Time: 8h (6h walking, 1h30 lunch, 30m break)
Warnings: A track between roughly NZ4003 1630 and NZ4036 1628 may be blocked and impossible to walk; be prepared to divert.
Walk details: Slow Ways.
East Boldon to Sunderland (Durham)
45 minutes direct from Billingham.
A good route making use of a riverside path and off-road sections as far as possible through otherwise urban areas and including an attractive park. Some path closures near a quarry require short detours. Passes Fulwell Quarry, which has many alternative paths.
Time: 3h30 (2h walking, 1h30 lunch)
Walk details: Slow Ways.