It heads in a south-easterly direction through the village of Otterburn, and then past Kirkwhelpington.
After his retirement as Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, on 6 April 2005 he was created a life peer as Baron Stevens of Kirkwhelpington, of Kirkwhelpington in the County of Northumberland.
John Stevens, Baron Stevens of Kirkwhelpington, whose career included head of the Metropolitan Police Service, and Chancellor of Northumbria University.