[1] From the car park, cross the road and turn left onto the pavement. This will lead you along the road and to the 'Shepherd & Shepherdess' pub.
[2] Cross the road in front of the pub and walk around the pub and turn left into 'Hammer Square Bank'. Follow this narrow road for a while.
Take care as the road is narrow.
[3] After a distance, the road forks. Bear left here to follow the public footpath and to walk along Hammer Square House. Go through the gate (or over the stile) and follow the public footpath for a while.
[4] You will reach a junction of paths. Continue straight ahead and follow the path downhill.
[5] On your left you will see parts of Beamish Museum. You will reach another junction, the left path leads to a church which belongs to the museum and uphill you can see Pockerley Farm. Turn right here to walk towards Flint Mill. Ignore the paths leading you away from the houses. Walk directly past the houses. At the last house, in the left corner, you will see a small sign and stile.
[6] Cross over the stile and follow the steps downhill and bear right to get onto a meadow and a footbridge over a beck. Cross the bridge and turn right to follow the obvious path through the grass.
Take care as the steps may be muddy in wet weather.
[7] This path leads you slightly uphill to a gate. Go through and follow it to another gate. Again go through and walk through a meadow. At the end, you cross over a stile and come to another footpath. Turn right to walk downhill.
[8] After a while, you will reach the road. Turn right here and follow the road over a small bridge and turn left after this to get into Ousbrough Wood Reserve. Follow the footpath leading you down to the river.
[9] Cross the footbridge at the bottom and turn right to follow the river around. Walk along this path for a long distance. The river will be on your right and after a while you will see a Wheel sculpture on your left.
[10] You will see some buildings in front of you and a footbridge on your right. Go over the footbridge and turn left when the paths forks into different directions. Walk up the steps and follow the path uphill. At the end you will end on another footpath in front of a field with a fence.
Take your time going up the steps as it is steep.
[11] Turn right here and follow this path uphill for a distance. It will go downhill after a while and uphill again. Exit the footpath through a gate and you may see hens and geese on your right and a bridge on your left.
[12] Turn left here and walk towards the bridge. Before the bridge turn left and walk downhill to follow the path that will bring you to the Consett & Sunderland Railway path that leads underneath the bridge. At the end of the slope, turn sharp right to follow the railway path.
[13] Follow this path for a distance, walking underneath a blue painted footbridge. After a while, the path forks, bear right here and walk uphill. Exit the railway path through a gate.
[14] Turn right to walk up 'Station Road' along the houses of Beamish. Follow the pavement until you reach the 'Shepherd & Shepherdess' pub at the end of the road.
[15] Cross the road in front of the pub and turn left onto the small footpath which leads you along the road and back to the starting point.
In the run-up to the Olympic Games 2012, Beamish Museum held an ‘Edwardian Sports Day’. This day marked the one month countdown to the beginning of the Games. 13 schools from around the area took part in activities like sack jumping and an ‘egg and spoon’ race.
On 24th August, the Paralympic Flame Celebration took place at Beamish. A variety of disability sport projects were showcased that day and you could experience many Paralympic sports demonstrations as well as taster sessions for different sports like archery, cycling and wheelchair football. Lee Curry, a community coach from Gateshead Thunder, was nominated to go to London and bring back the Flame to Beamish.