Wooler - Gateway to Glendale and the Cheviot Hills

This website will introduce you to some of the charms that Wooler & Glendale has to offer. Take time to click through our pages and we look forward to seeing you in the near future.

Welcome to the Wooler & Glendale Community Website...

Looking from Weetwood towards the Cheviots

Wooler, an attractive stone-built Market Town in Northumberland, perched high above the Wooler Water in the foothills of the Cheviots is a natural gateway to Glendale and Northumberland National Park. Click here for a fantastic slideshow of the Cheviot Hills

The clean air and natural beauty of the area has built the reputation of Wooler & Glendale as a place to relax and recuperate. Early visitors included Daniel Defoe, Sir Walter Scott and local heroine Grace Darling. The magnificent backdrop of Humbleton Hill is mentioned in the opening scenes of one of the countries greatest literary works – Shakespeare’s Henry IV.

The bustling main street serves the rural area of Glendale and hosts specialist shops and cafes and a wide range of accommodation is on offer to entice visitors to stay and sample the best of the great outdoors, there's plenty to do for all the family throughout the area:

• Circular walking routes on quiet footpaths & byways

• Fishing on the Till and Tweed

• Exhilarating road & mountain bike routes

• 19th Century working corn mill and light railway and the many attractions on Ford & Etal estates

• Iron Age & Bronze Age settlements

• Hillforts and rock carvings

• Gliding, Golf, Climbing, Tennis etc.

The long distance Pennine Cycleway and St Cuthbert’s Way walk bisect the area and the stunning Northumberland coastline and Alnwick Garden are only 35 minutes away.