Monday 30 December 2019

New Year's Eve walk: Bramham - Tuesday 31 December

Start time: 10am prompt

Distance: 6.5 Miles

Level of difficulty: not too strenuous as we need to save energy for the evening's festivities!!

Leader: Keith

Toilets: No Idea

Cafe: to be sorted

New Year's Eve walk will be around Bramham Park starting from the Red Lion pub in the centre of Bramham Village. (Not to be confused with Bramhope near to Harewood House).

Sunday 1 December 2019

Christmas walk: Sunday 8 December

The day will be made up of two parts:

Walk: start 10am prompt

Dinner: start 2pm - attached is the menu - can you please let me know if you are attending and what your meal choices will be - I need these so that the tearoom can serve us nice hot meals altogether.

Details as follows:

Walk start: Ampleforth Abbey - lower car park

Leader: Keith

Distance: ~7 miles

Time: ~3.5 hours

Level of difficulty: Easy/moderate

Refreshments/toilets: Ampleforth Abbey tearoom

A gentle walk in the hills around Ampleforth Abbey followed by our annual Xmas dinner at the Ampleforth Abbey tearooms. As those who have been before will testify, the tearooms provide a wonderful dinner with all the trimmings,so no need to bring a packed lunch!

As the tearoom opens for Xmas dinner especially for our walking group, and the meal needs to be confirmed in advance, I do need to ask for your menu choices - see attached - this will allow me to book numbers and menu choices ahead of our arrival.

Monday 25 November 2019

Tuesday Walk: 26th November - Terrington

Start: 10 am (or 10.05am  from the village shop)

Leader: Keith

Distance: 8 miles (approx.) It may alter a little depending on conditions.

Level of difficulty: Moderate

Meeting Point: Village Hall Car Park.  

There is a small sign near the shop in the centre of the village directing you down a side road. It is on the outskirts of the village near the playing fields. Donation of £1 for parking. 

If you cannot find the car park or if you would prefer to park on the main street, then the walk will start by heading into Terrington & we will pass the village shop shortly after 10.

Toilets: None in village

Café: There is a small café in Terrington but if it is not open then we can go to Castle Howard.

Thursday 31 October 2019

Sunday walk: Saltaire - Sunday 17 November

Start: 10am prompt

Location: Salt's Mill main visitor car park - see location details below.

Use satnav BD17 7EF and follow the signs on arrival. From their website it says;
Sat nav users: entering our correct postcode brings you into the wrong side of the Mill for the car park. Instead, please set your Sat Nav to BD17 7EF. When it tells you you've reached your destination, keep going along Salts Mill Road following the brown signs - you'll pass a big red brick chimney on your left as you cross the canal and The Waterfront, an office building, on your right, then you'll see the mill at the end of the road. Proceed through the gates into the free Salts visitors car park on the right.

Leader: David Pierce  [contact number on the day 07512 381412]

Distance: 7 miles

Time: 4 hours

Level of difficulty: Easy

Refreshments and toilets: Salt's Mill before and after walk

The walk begins at Salt's Mill Car Park and then follows the Aire valley by paths alongside the Leeds and Liverpool canal. Eventually the Bingley 5 rise lock system is reached.  We return on the other side of the river via riverside and woodland paths and explore Saltaire village, hopefully ending up in the Mill for refreshments!



It's a varied walk which includes a variety of walking surfaces from towpaths, to muddy woods and pavements.

Wednesday 23 October 2019

Tuesday walk: Market Weighton - Tuesday October 29

Start: 10am prompt

Location: Market Weighton - meeting point is the car park near the church in the centre of the town. If you are coming from York, take the first exit off the A1079 after the Shiptonthorpe Roundabout & the car park is on the LHS as you enter the centre of the town.

Leader: Keith

Distance: ~8 miles

Level of difficulty: Easy

Time: ~4-4 1/2 hours

Facilities: Toilets and café are available in Market Weighton

Sunday 29 September 2019

Sunday walk: Goldsborough - Sunday 13 October

Start: 10am prompt. Parking on church street near bay horse pub
Leaders: Clive & Janette  

Distance: 7.8 miles

Level of difficulty: Easy

Toilets: None

Refreshments: Local cafe or pub after.
Flat easy walk on farm tracks on good paths.  
Leave village head towards Knaresborough then towards Plumpton Hall then cuts back to Little Ribston and walk though Ribston hall grounds and back to Goldsborough.

Thursday 29 August 2019

Sunday walk: 8 September - Yorkshire Sculpture Park


By popular request we will be making a return visit to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park at Wakefield on Sunday September 8.  We did a version of this walk on 10 January 2016.

Where: Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, nr Wakefield


Start: 10am, Sunday, September 8 at Top Lane, Bretton Common


Directions: Exit the M1 at junction 39 and take the A636 to Denby Dale. After about a mile and a half you will reach a roundabout where the A636 meets the A637 (Huddersfield Road). Go straight on towards Denby Dale and after a few yards take the first right into Top Lane where you will find lay-bys on either side of the road. Parking here avoids paying the £12 all-day parking fee in the Sculpture Park.


Route: We'll walk from the lay-by on a track which takes us to the Sculpture Park (free entry) and do route through the park which will include the Church, Lower Lake, various sculptures, up to Longside and across a Oxley Bank with spectacular views of the park and Emley Moor TV mast and back to the park before returning to Top Lane. Anyone who wishes to stay at the 500-acre park longer after the walk is most welcome to do so. Several maps are available for anyone wishing to have a wander round after the group walk. 

Distance: 7 to 8 miles

Terrain: Mainly tracks, paths, a couple of steady climbs (not steep) and a few stiles.


Toilets and cafe: Sculpture Park Visitor Centre and The Weston (at the Weston entrance). There are also toilets at the Longside Gallery.


Refreshments: Sculpture Park Visitor Centre and The Weston (at the Weston entrance). The nearest pub, the Black Bull, Midgeley, is currently closed.


Leaders: Martin and Jenny 07979 674701


For more details about the park visit www.ysp.co.uk

Wednesday 31 July 2019

Sunday walk: Hole of Horcum - Sunday 11 August

Start: 10am prompt

Location: Hole of Horcum car park (note there is a £2.50 car park charge)

Leader: Clive and Janette

Distance: 8 miles

Level of difficulty: moderate

Time: 4 hours

Refreshments and toilets: cafe at Lockton

This walk heads towards the Saltergate pub, then cutting down by the pub towards Newton Dale, then climbing up the hill towards Skeletons Hunting Lodge, then to Dundale Pond and back to that car park.

Friday 5 July 2019

Sunday walk: Burton Agnes - Sunday 14 July

Start: 10am prompt

Parking: car park for Burton Agnes Hall, Burton Agnes (there is a jazz festival on when we are walking but does not start until later in the day, so parking should be fine). Post code for directions: YO25 4NB

Leader: Steve

Distance: 8.5 miles

Level of difficulty: Easy/moderate

Refreshments/toilets: Blue Bell, near end of walk

Our walk starts at Burton Agnes Hall car park, a stately pile on the edge of the village and will take us across gently rolling hills towards Kilham before turning southwards to Lowthorpe and Harpham.

Sunday 16 June 2019

Tuesday walk: Fordham - Tuesday 25th June 2019

Start: Fordon

Parking: Off road parking in Fordon (Grid Ref: TA051751)

Leader: Keith

Distance: 7.5 miles of farm track & quiet road walking. 

Level of difficulty: Easy. Nothing too steep - total climb approx. 600 feet (60 staircases)

Toilets: None on route.

Café: Hunmanby or Sledemere House. 

A fairly gentle route of 7.5 miles from the village (hamlet) of Fordon which is not too far from Filey on the Yorkshire Wolds.

Friday 31 May 2019

Sunday walk: Thixendale and Kirby Underdale - Sunday 9 June 2019

Start: 10am prompt

Start point: Outside the Church at Thixendale

Parking: Parking on the roadside near the Church

Leader: Rob

Distance: 8.25 miles

Time: 4 hours approx.

Level of difficulty: Moderate but with some hills

Toilets: At the tea room and pub. Not open at the start of the walk

Refreshments: At either the Cross Keys Pub or Tea Room at Thixendale Village Hall

An invigorating walk crossing some of the quietest countryside of the Yorkshire Wolds. A couple of lengthy climbs through the steep sided Thixen Dale and its adjacent dales.  Also some superb views looking across the wide expanse of the Vale of York.

Tuesday 21 May 2019

Tuesday walk: Fulford - Tuesday 28th May

Start: 10am prompt

Meeting point: Parking on Landing Lane, Fulford.  - SE610487

Travelling into York on the A19 from the Designer Centre, Landing Lane is a Left Hand turn just before the new traffic lights on the new flood defences as you enter Fulford. (You will pass under a Height Restriction barrier as you turn off the A19)

Distance: 94 million miles (approx) - we will be walking to the Sun & some of the planets!!) (Should only feel like 8.5 miles).

Level of difficulty: Easy

Time: 3-4 hours

Toilets and refreshments: None at the start or en-route but the plan is to stop at the Cycle Café near the Millennium Bridge near the end of the walk.

The walk is around Fulford taking in the banks of the river Ouse, York golf course & part of the University grounds. Reasonably dog friendly.

Friday 3 May 2019

Sunday walk: Wetwang - Sunday 12 May

Start: 10am prompt on Northfield Road (first left as you enter village from York)

Parking: on grass verge opposite bungalows

Leader: Clive

Distance: 9 miles

Level of difficulty: Moderate

Refreshments: Pub in Wetwang or cafe in Fridaythorpe



Gentle climb at start, then mainly grass lanes and farm tracks, with option to visit the Tatton Sykes Monument (depending on conditions on the day).

Sunday 7 April 2019

Sunday walk: Huggate - Sunday 14 April - 10am

Start: 10am prompt Huggate

Parking: Park along the road near the Wolds Inn pub in Huggate.

Leader: Steve

Distance: 9 miles

Level of difficulty: Moderate

Toilets: None on the route

Refreshments: Wolds Inn pub, toilets available here

This is one of my personal favourites! 

Nine miles exploring the beautiful Yorkshire Wolds - you can see the reasons why David Hockney obsessed on painting here - wonderful light and shade.

The walk will take us from Huggate via seven fine dales - Pasture Dale, Frendal Dale, Greenwick Dale, Tun Dale, Holm Dale, Horse Dale and Cow Dale - before returning to Huggate for a well earned rest and drink.

Tuesday walk: 23rd April 2019 - Rufforth

PLEASE NOTE: This month's mid-week walk is NOT the last Tuesday of the month as normal, but will be a week earlier on Tuesday 23rd. This is Easter Tuesday. (a majority of the usual walkers are away on the 30th so it has been brought forward)

Start: 10am prompt Rufforth

Parking: As you approach Rufforth from York on the B1224 look for a turning on the LHS. It is just before the road turns sharp right as it enters the village. (Grid Ref: SE532512)

Leader: Keith

Distance: 8.3 miles

Level of difficulty: Easy

Toilets: None on the route

Refreshments: School House café in Rufforth

Fairly flat walking on farm tracks & roads passing through Askham Richard & Hutton Wandesley before returning to Rufforth.


Monday 4 March 2019

Sunday walk: Aberford circular via Leeds Country Way

Start: 10 am prompt

Parking: South of Aberford on Bunkers Hill, southern end of long lay-by opposite Aberford Albion FC.

Leader: Clive

Level of difficulty: Easy

Distance: 8 miles

Refreshments and toilets: pub in village

Flat easy walk towards Garforth golf course taking in the Leeds Country Way, Parlington Woods and then back to Aberford.

Clive says no salmon aleaping this time - lambs instead.

Monday 25 February 2019

Tuesday walk: Elvington - Tuesday 26th Feb

Start: 10am prompt OS Ref: SE669 494 - Follow Elvington Lane from Hull Road / A64 junction past the York Maze (RHS) & turning for Dunnington (LHS). Shortly after you should see a parking area on RHS.

Distance: 7.5 miles

Difficulty: Easy. This is a flat walk on mainly farm paths. Only issue may be mud in places if the weather has been wet.

Leader: Keith

Toilets: None

Refreshments: TBA


Walk starts near Elvington & follows the Minster Way over towards Dunnington. It then loops through Hagg Wood, before returning along the Minster Way.



Friday 1 February 2019

Sunday walk: Nunnington - Sunday 10 February 2019

Start: 10am prompt Nunnington Village Hall

Leader: Martin 07979 674701

Parking: Outside Village Hall, in village and National Trust members 
could also use Nunnington Hall car park (closes at 4pm).
Length: About 7 miles - can be shortened if the weather is very bad.

Terrain: Mainly fields and tracks with minimal road walking. Generally 
flat with just one short steepish post-lunch climb.

Map: OS Explorer 300 - Howardian Hills & Malton

Dogs: There are likely to be pregnant ewes in some of the fields but 
there are opportunities to let dogs off the leash on various parts of 
the walk.

Refreshments: Nunnington Hall tea room or Royal Oak pub (closes 3pm Sunday) in the village.

Toilets: There are no public toilets in Nunnington or Stonegrave, 
although NT members may be able to use the one at Nunnington Hall.

Head east out of Nunnington along the banks of the River Rye to the hamlet of West Ness and on to Caulkley's Bank, a long limestone ridge with views north across the Vale of Pickering and south to the Howardian Hills. Through Caulkley's Wood down to Stonegrave, home of England's oldest Minster. Return to Nunnington via fields and another stretch on the banks of the River Rye.

Thursday 3 January 2019

Sunday walk: Sunday 13 January - Bardsey and Thorner

Start: 10am prompt in Bardsey (parking at or near to Bingley Arms). Postcode LS17 9DR - for navigation, meet outside the pub.

Leader: Steve

Distance: 7.5 miles

Level of difficulty: Moderate

Time: ~4 hours

Refreshments and toilets: Bingley Arms - claims to be oldest pub in England. Good food and drink.

A rolling landscape, with remains of Roman roads and Pompacali, a Roman settlement.