Devised by author and former Campaign to Protect Rural England president Bill Bryson, the walk is the longest straight line you can travel in the UK without crossing a sea and runs from Cape Wrath in Scotland to Bognor Regis.
A small team from Tanager Wealth Management, an American firm with staff in the UK and Europe, is aiming to raise £100,000 for charity by completing the Bryson Line.
The fund-raisers were met by members of the Northumberland branch of the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) at Whin Sill, as they trekked the Pennine Way and heard about the history surrounding Hadrian’s Wall.
Walk organiser and founding Tanager partner Jeff Hedges said: “The walk has been long and challenging already, but along the way there have some real highlights, like walking alongside the ancient Roman Wall.”
“It was great of Colin Adsley and Leslie Ashworth of CPRE Northumberland to come along to support us and fill us in on some of the historic sights and beautiful landscapes we were passing through. It’s a wonderfully picturesque place and we’ve been blown away by the beauty of Northumberland.”
Walkers Roger Saller, Alex Eichhorn and Kate Hedges are walking 19 miles a day in a bid to complete the line in a single month.
On the day they met members of CPRE Northumberland, they had walked south from Bellingham, passing between Greenlea and Broomlea Loughs before reaching Whin Sill.
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