Supporter Graeme Kitching, a regular on the touchline for more than 25 years, decided to organise the event to coincide with the first XV’s final league game of the season – the promotion decider against South Shields Westoe.
Setting off from Langdon Beck at 6am, he completed the 22 miles in about seven-and-a-half hours.
When he arrived at the Demesnes, he was clapped onto the field by veterans taking part in a Barnard Castle v Richmond old boys game.
Mr Kitching said: “I could not believe it.
“I walked down and the vets game was on. They stopped their game and they all started applauding. It was fantastic.”
Mr Kitching, from Gainford, was joined on the walk by his son, and former Barney rugby player Martin, along with Martin’s brother-in-law Richard Brown.
He had set a £1,000 target for the walk, but with money still coming in, that has been passed.
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