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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.