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.

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.

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 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.

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.