Sunday walk: 9 September - Hutton-le-Hole and Ryedale villages

Start: 10am prompt

Leaders: Martin/Jenny

Meet at North York Moors National Park Authority's car park in 
Hutton-le-Hole (There is a fee for parking). From York, enter the village, drive to the end and take right hand turn out of village, car park on your right.

Distance: 7 miles

Time: 4 hours

Difficulty: Easy/moderate

Toilets: Hutton-le-Hole car park

Refreshments: Tea rooms in Hutton-le-Hole, pubs in Hutton-le-Hole, 
Appleton-le-Moors and Lastingham

The walk covers three Ryedale villages (Hutton-le-Hole, 
Appleton-le-Moors and Lastingham) across the foothills of the North York 
Moors. The route goes along centuries-old tracks, linked by quiet field 
paths. The churches at Lastingham and Appleton-le-Moors are well worth a 
visit.

Tuesday walk: Tuesday 28th August - Leavening, Burythorpe and Birdsall

Start: 10am prompt

Parking: Roadside in Leavening.

Leader: Ali

Distance: 8 miles

Time: approx. 3.5 hours

Toilets and refreshments: Pubs in Leavening and Acklam, if they are open . I'll be checking that this weekend.

This easy walk is on typical Wolds farmland on the border of the Howardian hills, open countryside, a mixture of arable and pasture and visiting 3 attractive villages. Mostly on good paths and tracks with a little road walking.

Sunday walk: 12th August - Rievaulx Abbey from Old Byland

Start: 10am prompt. Old Byland village. Park considerately in the village.

Leader: Joe

Distance: 6 miles (a shorter one given the heat potential!)

Time: 3 1/2 to 4 1/2 hours

Level of difficulty: Easy

Refreshments and toilets: public toilets at Rievaulx Abbey and then at the Sutton Bank Visitor Centre.

Appreciate the idyllic environment where Rievaulx Abbey flourished and where Byland Abbey was also originally established. This walk is mostly woodland and field paths with two easy gradients.