Holy Island & very North Northumberland

A few pics and vids from an outing I had with Joel (usual gateboy, but his birthday this time).

Went all the way to Holy Island (Lindisfarne) on A roads and over the causeway. Back via a selection of green lanes as a research trip for the upcoming Northumberland outing with Brett (Maverick) and a few others, Dave (S200KYS) is missing that trip for obvious reasons. Most of the lanes in these pics/vids are not going to be on that run as they are too far North (and not that exciting to be worth the trek).

Holy Island:


J999MNY itchin' to go...




It even has a green-lane on the island, with a confusing sign:


and a castle and a monastery...



Then needing to get going there was this sign of a vitara in difficulty...


so we got out of there safely

Onto some greenlanes next. About time! it took 3.5 hrs to get to Holy Island!

1st lane then. Not that exciting, but scenic:


another much the same:


Odd bridge on the way with a restriction of 2ton and narrow bollards (no probs in a Jimny however ):


and another, this one has a crossroads halfway, so we decided to take the right and see what it was like (looked more interesting than the left). we returned and carried on:



Next (after a butty/brew stop at a local petrol station) was an unusual concrete ford. Not one for when the waters high...


Onwards to a well maintained (gamekeepers) track with a nice ford in the middle:


Then onto a little used track down to a tricky small ford. Steep in & out and a bit muddy. Nothing we couldn't handle but watch it when waters high:


Next was Brandon on the way to other lanes I forgot to record, so this the last video, but not the last lane, we just carried on


Good day out overall. One mystery thing spotted, wonder if anyone knows what it is? Marked as a 'Radio station' on OS maps:

I saw you had posted this trip on YouTube earlier, lovely bit of the world. Thanks for sharing!

Are these 'green lanes' open to public traffic. I'm aware that in some parts of England 4WDs are banned.

Nice one! thank you for sharing that!

Bob1050 wrote: Are these 'green lanes' open to public traffic. I'm aware that in some parts of England 4WDs are banned.

That's not quite how it works. Our byways are given various classifications like BOAT byway open all traffic or ORPA other route public access etc. These in turn are then subject to various types of TRO traffic regulation order which are either permanent temporary or seasonal restrictions on vehicular use. These in turn are monitored and published by the relevant local government some of whom are less tolerant than others but have to be referred to for upto date information . Scotland is different again.

Riccy nice job lad and thanks for taking the time and effort to share it with us got a "are you watching other people driving jeeps again" form her self so thats like a 5 star rating ....nice one.