Cleveland Way & Yorkshire Wolds Way

by: Paddy Dillon
This guidebook describes two National Trails plus a third long distance path. These are 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.

The Cleveland Way National Trail, described in nine day stages, is a fine 177km (110 miles) walk around the North York Moors National Park from Helmsley to Filey. Enjoy scenery that includes open heather moorlands, gentle dales, interesting towns and villages and dramatic cliff coastline.

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 seven day stages, from Hessle near Redcar 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. For each stage start and finish grid references are given plus distance, time, terrain, maps, refreshments and public transport. The author has provided a comprehensive introduction covering all practicalities including planning your trip, planning day by day and some history of the area. The book is illustrated with numerous full colour photographs.

The day stages for the trails are as follows:

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

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)

Tabular Hills Walk
Stage 1 Scalby Mills to Levisham
Stage 2 Levisham to Hutton-le-Hole
Stage 3 Hutton-le-Hole to Helmsley

ISBN 9781852848231 Pages 185 plus map booklet (2016) 115mm x 172mm