The Cleveland Way and the Yorkshire Wolds Way

Includes 1:25,000 Cleveland Way route map booklet

By Paddy Dillon

ISBN

9781852848231

Availability

Published

13 Jul 2016

Reprinted

21 Sept 2020

Edition

Second

Pages

192

Size

17.20 x 11.60 x 1.10cm

Weight

310g

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A walking guidebook to the Cleveland Way and Yorkshire Wolds Way National Trails, plus the Tabular Hills Walk. Crossing the North York Moors National Park, coastal scenery and quiet countryside, the three routes can be joined to create an easy circular route of over 250 miles (400km). Includes a 1:25,000 scale OS map booklet of the Cleveland Way.

Seasons

All year round, though winter can be bleak and wet on the moors.

Centres

Scarborough, Whitby, Filey, Helmsley, Osmotherley

Difficulty

Suitable for all: the trails are divided into sections ranging from 2½-12 miles. There are some isolated stretches.

Must See

Yorkshire's Heritage Coast; Ryedale Folk Museum; Rievaulx Abbey; Whitby; historic villages; moorland scenery

ISBN

9781852848231

Availability

Published

13 Jul 2016

Reprinted

21 Sept 2020

Edition

Second

Pages

192

Size

17.20 x 11.60 x 1.10cm

Weight

310g

Overview

Guidebook to the Cleveland Way and Yorkshire Wolds Way National Trails, plus the Tabular Hills Walk link route. The guidebook also contains a 1:25,000 scale OS route map booklet of the Cleveland Way.
The Cleveland Way National Trail, described in seven day stages, is a fine 177km (110 miles) walk around the North York Moors National Park from Helmsley to Filey. The Yorkshire Wolds Way is one of the quietest of Britain's National Trails and wanders for 130km (80 miles) through gentle, cultivated and sparsely populated countryside. Described here in nine day stages, from Hessle near Hull to Filey, it links end-to-end with the Cleveland Way on the coast. Also described is the three-day, 80km (50 mile) Tabular Hills Walk, a Regional Trail that allows walkers to close the loop of the Cleveland Way and transform it into an enormous circular walk.
The guidebook comes with a separate map booklet of 1:25,000 scale OS maps showing the full route of the Cleveland Way. The clear step-by-step route description links together with the map booklet at each stage along the Way, and the compact format is conveniently sized for slipping into a jacket pocket or the top of a rucksack.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

Map key

Overview map

Cleveland Way trek planner

Route summary table

Introduction

Planning your trip

Daily schedule

When to walk

Getting to Yorkshire

Getting around Yorkshire

Accommodation

Tourist information centres

Food and drink

Money

Planning day by day

Using this guide

Maps of the routes

Waymarking

Rescue services

Trail officer

All about Yorkshire

Brief history

Wolds, moors and coast

The Yorkshire Wolds Way National Trail

Stage 1 Hessle to South Cave

Stage 2 South Cave to Goodmanham or Market Weighton

Stage 3 Goodmanham or Market Weighton to Millington

Stage 4 Millington to Thixendale

Stage 5 Thixendale to Sherburn

Stage 6 Sherburn to Filey

Stage 7 Filey to Scalby Mills (via the Cleveland Way)

The Tabular Hills Walk

Stage 1 Scalby Mills to Levisham

Stage 2 Levisham to Hutton-le-Hole

Stage 3 Hutton-le-Hole to Helmsley

The Cleveland Way National Trail

Stage 1 Helmsley to Sutton Bank

Stage 2 Sutton Bank to Osmotherley

Stage 3 Osmotherley to Clay Bank

Stage 4 Clay Bank to Kildale

Stage 5 Kildale to Saltburn-by-the-Sea

Stage 6 Saltburn-by-the-Sea to Sandsend

Stage 7 Sandsend to Robin Hood’s Bay

Stage 8 Robin Hood’s Bay to Scarborough

Stage 9 Scarborough to Filey

Appendix A Useful contacts

Updates

June 2023

Stage 5 diversion

Page 146 states: "Go through a crossroads and later turn right at the bottom, into a field as signposted ...go beneath the A174 by-pass."

A housing estate is being built on the field and the Cleveland Way has been diverted.

A suggested rewrite of these sentences would be: "Turn right at a crossroads, as signposted, into Windermere Drive. Follow the road as it bends to the left and becomes Hamsterley Way. Turn right, as signposted, onto a footpath leading through a wooded area to go beneath the A174 by-pass." See OS map.

August 2021

Day 3 diversion

The Cleveland Way has been diverted slightly as it leaves Osmotherley (Day 3). The route now visits the Lady Chapel, or Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Grace.

www.grough.co.uk/magazine/2021/08/17/national-trail-diversion-takes-cleveland-way-walkers-past-historic-mount-grace-shrine

October 2018

Route Update

Stage 6 Saltburn-by-the-Sea to Sandsend - page 155

Second paragraph after climbing from Staithes and passing a farm, the Cleveland Way has been re-routed and improved. Instead of walking straight ahead through fields, turn left as signposted along a broad, grassy track flanked by fences. This leads to a cliff-top. Turn right and follow a broad, grassy path towards Old Nab. Turn right and climb steeply to continue following the cliff-top path.

Reviews

This route gives widely contrasting terrain, from cultivated countryside, wild heather moorlands and dramatic coastline and passes through charming villages.

Using this guide it is possible to do a 250 mile walk combining the Yorkshire Wolds Way, Tabular Hills Walk and the Cleveland Way. This route gives widely contrasting terrain, from cultivated countryside, wild heather moorlands and dramatic coastline and passes through charming villages.

Strider

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Paddy Dillon

Paddy Dillon is a prolific walker and guidebook writer, with over 100 guidebooks to his name and contributions to 40 other titles. He has written for several outdoor magazines and other publications and has appeared on radio and television.Paddy uses a tablet computer to write as he walks. His descriptions are therefore precise, having been written at the very point at which the reader uses them.Paddy is an indefatigable long-distance walker who has walked all of Britain's National Trails and several European trails. He has also walked in Nepal, Tibet, Korea and the Rocky Mountains of Canada and the US. Paddy is a member of the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild and President of the Backpackers Club.

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