The Centenary Way Long Distance Walk Guide

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River Foss near start of walk The Centenary Way

The Centenary Way

Exploring North Yorkshire, the Howardian Hills, and part of the Yorkshire Wolds Way National Trail, on foot from York Minster to Filey Brigg

Updated, Revised and Edited by John Sparshatt

Original route devised by Alan Neasham

Published By North Yorkshire County Council March 2013

Designed and printed by Bowland Graphics North Yorkshire County Council The Centenary Way Introduction I invite you to walk the Centenary Way to discover some of the most glorious and diverse landscapes North Yorkshire has to offer. By following the network of footpaths and bridleways you can enjoy aspects of the heritage, wildlife and countryside that make this County beautiful and unique. The Centenary Way is a valuable asset to the County, enabling local people to access the countryside on their doorstep and visitors to explore the great outdoors. It was created in 1989 to celebrate 100 years of County Councils. Like all of our footpaths and bridleways it encourages tourists to experience and explore our beautiful towns and villages and the countryside. When you need refreshment, there are plenty of opportunities to taste some of the great, local produce we have to offer in our cafes, pubs and restaurants and enjoy Yorkshire hospitality. If you are a visitor to the area, or lucky enough to live here, enjoy this great walk and everything it has to offer along the way. Cllr Chris Metcalfe (Executive Member North Yorkshire County Council) Foreword There is much to celebrate about North Yorkshire. For me, its greatest asset is the vast and varied landscape that can be found within its bounds, for here you will find two national parks, a handful of areas of outstanding natural beauty and a heritage coast. These areas are protected because of their great views and at - tractive countryside, but equally they are protected because of the rich layers of history that stretch back to the earliest settlers; history that forms an integral part of the heritage of this country. Whilst undertaking this long distance walk, you will have time to pause and reflect, discover and enjoy this varied history, and all at a gentle walking pace. Walking stimulates your senses, for only on foot can you enjoy the sights and smells of the seasons, the sounds of the countryside and the taste of the post-walk pint in a village pub! From your first steps as you leave the magnificent York Minster, northern Europe’s largest medieval cathedral, excitement and anticipation builds as you head for the North Sea at Filey Brigg, for this journey will take you past castles and priories, Roman remains, a deserted medieval village plus so much more. A journey of discovery that will bring you richness through the many experiences you will have, which then become memories to treasure. But long distance walking offers much more than discovery, for it gives you a sense of space, freedom and liberation away from the bustle and burdens of everyday life; it gives you a whole new outlook. And where better to reflect upon this new outlook than your journey’s end – the rugged coastline at Filey Brigg. Mark Reid (Author of The Inn Way guidebooks)

2 The Centenary Way Contents Title Page 1 Introduction and Foreword 2 Contents 3 1. York Minster to Earswick 4.3 miles 4-5 2. Earswick to Strensall 4.7 miles 6-7 3. Strensall to Sheriff Hutton 2.8 miles 8-9 4. Sheriff Hutton to Huskit Hill 6.2 miles 10-11 5. Huskit Hill to Coneysthorpe 5.9 miles 12-13 Castle Howard 14-15 6. Coneysthorpe to Firby 6.9 16-17 Kirkham Priory 18-19 7. Firby to Malton 5.6 miles 20-21 Malton and Wharram Percy 22-23 8. Malton to North Grimston 5.9 miles 24-25 9. North Grimston to Toisland Wold 4.9 miles 26-27 10. Toisland Wold to Wharram le Street 6.1 miles 28-29 11. Wharram le Street to Settrington Beacon 3.7 miles 30-31 12. Settrington Beacon to Abbey Plantation 5.3 miles 32-33 13. Abbey Plantation to Crowsdale Wood 3.5 miles 34-35 14. Crowsdale Wood to Staxton Wold Farm 5.7 miles 36-37 15. Staxton Wold Farm to Sharpe Howe 3.0 miles 38-39 16. Sharpe How to Hunmanby 4.3 miles 40-41 17. Hunmanby to Filey Brigg 3.8 miles 42-43 About the author 44 Useful information 45

3 North Yorkshire County Council The Centenary Way 1. York to Earswick 4.3 miles 1.Start from the South Transept door under a further bridge and then over of York Minster and follow the Queen's the Huntingdon Road to rejoin the Path around on the eastern side of the riverside path, soon passing the rear Minster. The plaque midway of the Nestlé Factory. commemorates the Queen's visit on 3. Where the far bank opens out, a 30th March 1972, when she walked to footbridge over the River Foss the Treasurer's House after distributing provides access for local residents, Maundy Money. At the rear of the but our route continues on the western Minster turn right into Chapter House bank. Shortly, the path leads out onto Street where, on the left, is the Haxby Road. Turn right and use the Treasurer's House, managed by the road-side footway for approximately National Trust. At the end of Chapter eighty yards before turning right House Street turn right into Ogleforth behind the white cottage (formerly the passing the Old Brewery, (now Lock Cottage) signposted Foss Walk residential apartments), and then turn and Ebor Way. Pass under the bridge left into Goodramgate and under which, whilst once part of the York to Monks Bar to the traffic lights – cross Hull railway line, now carries a road over and turn left here for eighty yards over the River Foss. Now follow the along Lord Mayor's Walk. Turn right tarmac riverside path behind a row of down Groves Lane, a narrow alleyway. garages passing over another road Continue on Groves Lane with car until a stile gives access into a grass park on the left, and straight on into field alongside the river; continue east Bowling Green Lane. Continue on the river bank around this large between the backs of houses and field, towards Huntington Church garages, crossing two residential which appears behind the trees off to streets and into Grove Terrace Lane the left, to reach a stile. Over the stile until reaching, at the end, the busy and now with a hedge on the left Huntington Road. Turn left here and follow the river to a lane which leads cross to the pavement opposite on the to Huntington Church. western bank of the River Foss. 4. Turn left on the lane and pass 2. Mallard ducks are the most through the church car park to a agreeable of companions now for the signed gate. Through the gate and next mile or so. With the River Foss continue northwards on the riverside on your right follow the river path to a kissing gate. Through the northwards, passing under an old kissing gate and with the River Foss railway bridge, now used as a cycle still on your right, continue northwards, way, and leave the Huntington Road passing under the York Outer Ring for the riverside path. Continue by the Road as far as a footbridge over the River Foss northwards by passing Foss leading to Earswick.

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Huntington Church

York Minster

Start of the Walk

Crown copyright and database rights 2013 Ordnance Survey 1007946 5 North Yorkshire County Council The Centenary Way 2. Earswick to Strensall 4.7 miles 5. Cross the footbridge and now with 7. Cross the road with care and rejoin the river on your left, on a surfaced the riverside path to follow it generally path, go to another footbridge near a in a northerly direction for 1.3 miles, weir. Cross the footbridge into an passing under the Foss Bridge enclosed path with a wooden fence on carrying the York to Scarborough rail your left and the river on your right, line, to reach Strensall New Bridge. continue past the buildings, and 8. Again cross the road and take the eventually join Landing Lane at riverside path now in a north-easterly Haxby and rejoin the Foss Walk. direction and continue over a small 6. Turn right on this lane as far as wooden footbridge and past the Towthorpe Road. Turn right on derelict former tannery (due for housing Towthorpe Road and continue redevelopment in 2013) to Strensall northwards using the footpath and Bridge at grid ref SE 632609. Cross grass verges for 0.6 mile to a footpath the road here rejoining the riverside sign and small footbridge on the right. path. Continue for 1.3 miles passing a Over the footbridge and diagonally former lock cottage on the left, (note cross the field in front to the road at the remains of a lock in the garden) Towthorpe Bridge. eventually reaching an old metal footbridge at SE 648622.

The River Foss Evidence all along the River Foss, in the form of lock houses, bridges and former locks, show the river was formerly used as a canal. The Foss Navigation Company had canalised the river from 1778 in order to make it navigable as far as Sheriff Hutton. The York Drainage and Sanitary Improvement Act of 1853 meant that the York Corporation purchased the River Foss from the Foss Navigation Company. In 1859, the York Improvement Act was passed. This led to the river above Yearsley Bridge being abandoned as a waterway. Remains of Roman jetties, wharves and warehouses have been found in excavations and building works on the banks of the Foss, suggesting that waterborne transport and trade was important from early in the history of the city.

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Strensall Bridge

Crown copyright and database rights 2013 Ordnance Survey 1007946 7 North Yorkshire County Council The Centenary Way 3. Strensall to Sheriff Hutton 2.8 miles 9. Turn left at the footbridge through a castle with fence on right. Cross over a small copse and after 200 yards join a lane via two gates into an enclosed path farm access track heading northwards and forward to exit onto the village over low-lying land and sometimes with green. Cross the green slightly right to pig pens on either side. Continue on this find another enclosed path, holly hedge track turning northwest after 0.4 mile to on left, to exit via steps into a small reach the farm at Lilling Green. estate of houses. Forward in the same 10 . Turn right past the farm and farm direction and turn left at The Croft buildings, now heading northeast, onto leading into Church End. Across the Ings Lane and forward to cross Lilling grass strip and turn right on East End Low Lane into New Lane. Continue in following this forward to a metal gate. the same direction up this very minor Forward from here with an industrial road to reach West Lilling. At the village, building on the right to a large field. turn left for fifty yards and turn right over Into the field and turn left with conifer a stile signed Sheriff Hutton. trees on left. Follow this field path 11 . Forward with house on right and eventually reaching the Sheriff Hutton beech hedge on left to reach another to Bulmer road. stile. Over stile and head across field to the right to reach another stile in the hedge. Over this stile and head northwards, diagonally, across another field to reach another stile leading onto a surfaced lane. The castle at Sheriff Hutton should now be in view. Cross the lane to a kissing gate and follow the path, now with a fence on the right, passing over a footbridge and double stile, to reach the cricket ground of Sheriff Hutton. Over the stile into the cricket ground and continue forward as far as the scoreboard building. Through the hedge on the right via the stile at this point to continue, now with hedge on left to exit onto the road in Sheriff Hutton. 12 . Turn right up the road and just before the Highwayman public house turn right towards the castle down an enclosed path. Pass through a kissing gate and follow the path past the Sheriff Hutton Castle

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Sheriff Hutton Castle The remains that can be seen today date from about 1382 when Lord John Neville (Lord of Middleham castle and also the builder of Raby castle) rebuilt it, on a site slightly different from the original. Brown gritstone used in the construction was quarried at Terrington, Mowthorpe and Stittenham. The castle remained in the possession of the Nevilles for three hundred years. Standing on a raised bank in the front of the village, the castle is five storied with walls eight feet thick. The southwest tower is one hundred feet high and has a forty feet by twenty feet dungeon below with a perfect vaulted roof. One doorway leads out to the hillside and the other to the beautifully built, uncommonly large circular staircase. At the bottom of the hill facing the south front are two oblong moats, each two hundred yards long. These are several feet deep and were formerly used as fish ponds. Amongst notable prisoners held at the castle was Elizabeth of York, the eldest daughter of Edward IV, wife of King Henry VII and mother of Henry VIII. The castle is private and is designated as a scheduled ancient monument by English Heritage.

Crown copyright and database rights 2013 Ordnance Survey 1007946 9 North Yorkshire County Council The Centenary Way 4. Sheriff Hutton to Huskit Hill 6.2 miles 13 . Turn right on the road for fifty yards Continue through a gate and through to a wide track (Carr Lane) on the left. Low Mowthorpe Farm turning left and Turn left and after another fifty yards uphill on a surfaced l ane. The lane turn right through a gate. Ahead now in (Mowthorpe Lane) is now followed for a northeasterly direction, with the field 1.5 miles to Terrington. boundary on the right, to reach a 15 . On reaching the main road in footbridge over a drainage ditch. Over Terrington turn right and immediately left the footbridge and the farm track (used into Church Lane. Go past the church as all weather horse track) to continue and take an enclosed path to the left of in the same direction with ditch and the preparatory school entrance. hedge on right to reach another track. Continue forward and turn right at the The Ebor Way goes left here but we sign and wall corner, following this past continue eastwards over a field towards the playing field to the left to drop down the left hand of a line of conifers. Climb to a field. Now follow the right hand up the bank to reach a field edge and field edge to a field boundary. Through turn left for about 200 yards to reach a the boundary and turn left, now stile into the wooded area on the left. heading north. The field edge is Over the stile into the wooded area and followed for 0.8 mile to Huskit Hill drop down to join a more distinct path. where we meet an un-surfaced Turn right and gently uphill on this path unclassified road after having passed eventually returning to the field edge at a small footbridge and two kissing gates. a metal gate. Ahead now on the track across the field, heading east, to reach the woodside. Look for a path into the wood after some 200 yards. A gate now gives access to the wood and the path climbs steadily up to join a bridleway. Continue uphill on the bridleway to reach the hamlet of High Stittenham. 14 . The bridleway continues forward through High Stittenham past Ashbank Lane on the right, heading northeast. Follow the bridleway down over uncultivated land through two gates to reach Mowthorpe Bridge. Over the bridge and uphill with hedge on right, turning right at the sign and then left at a further sign shortly afterwards. All Saints, Terrington

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Sheriff Hutton Castle

Crown copyright and database rights 2013 Ordnance Survey 1007946 11 North Yorkshire County Council The Centenary Way 5. Huskit Hill to Coneysthorpe 5.9 miles 16 . Turn left on the un-surfaced to reach a gate into the forest. unclassified road and follow this to Through the gate and uphill around to Howthorpe Farm. Turn right and the left. Keep on this track for 2.8 miles down-hill through the farm buildings to along a ridge top with wooded area the end of the next field. Here, turn left mainly on the right of the track. This with a wood and stream on the right. track passes and crosses several Follow the field edge through two paths and a road at SE704731. As you gates to cross a culvert bridge. Over reach the ridge top extensive views to the bridge and turn right into an the north across the Ryedale Valley enclosed narrow bridleway. Follow this may be experienced on a good day. with wood and stream on right turning 18 . After passing the road at SE 704 left through woodland and soon right 731 Coneysthorpe Banks Wood is to reach a bridleway gate. Through the entered. Follow the woodland path for gate and over wet ground to reach a 600 yards to a footpath sign on the gate into woodland at SE671138. right. Turn right here down a sunken 17 . Through the gate and up the hill, pathway. Turn left when open ground bearing to the right. At the second is reached and right after fifty yards turning on the right, turn right (large onto a track between fields. Now dead upright tree trunk on left as you heading south the pretty village of turn) downhill to find a gate near a Coneysthorpe is just 1 mile away. stream at the bottom. Through the Through the village passing the village gate and turning left across the stream green to reach the main road.

Bridleway north of Howthorpe Farm

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Castle Howard Castle Howard grew from the imagination and vision of three men: Charles Howard, third Earl of Carlisle, Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor. Its history, however is the continuing story of a continuing evolution over the course of three centuries. Charles Howard, succeeded to the Earldom in 1692, and by 1700 was a gentleman of the King’s Bedchamber. He went on to become acting Earl Marshal of England, First Lord of the Treasury, Privy Councillor, and Constable of the Tower of London. At that time grand country houses and country seats were the most flamboyant of status symbols. Charles Howard had on lease from his grandmother the castle and village of Henderskelfe. After a fire seriously damaged the castle he asked Talman, who had worked at Chatsworth, to submit designs for a new house, but the two fell out and Charles Howard turned to a most unlikely figure.

John Vanbrugh had been incarcerated in the Bastille and on his release had become a successful playwright. He was evidently a man of easy charm and quick wit, whilst also an architectural ‘virgin’. Indeed he had built nothing before Carlisle asked him to design Castle Howard. Nicholas Hawksmoor’s contribution was vital to the success of Castle Howard, his training and experience taking over where Vanbrugh’s imagination left off. As was the common practice, the design of Castle Howard took shape as it was being built. Vanbrugh’s use of many elements was revolutionary to his contemporaries e.g. he had turned his design from the traditional orientation of East/West to North/South. No private house in England had been surmounted by so great a dome.

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Financial necessity meant a slow building pace and by Vanbrugh’s death in 1726 the West Wing was still not built. However it was completed by the fourth Earl’s brother-in-law, Sir Thomas Robinson, though it bears little relationship to Vanbrugh’s scheme. In the late nineteenth century, extensive alterations were carried out to harmonise the roof levels and continue the north front steps which had, until then, halted abruptly at the west end of the main block. On 9th November 1940 two thirds of the south front and the entire dome were destroyed by fire. Together with a few necessary alterations the East wing dome was restored by George Howard—later to be Lord Howard of Henderskelfe. In 1981 he built the Garden Hall and in 1983 the Library: both are originals in the style of Vanbrugh.

More recently Castle Howard has been used as a film location, in 1981 for the TV series Brideshead and in 2008 for the film adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited as well as many others. Castle Howard has extensive and diverse gardens. There is a large formal garden immediately behind the house. The house is prominently situated on a ridge and this was exploited to create an English Landscape Park which opens out from the formal garden and merges with the park.

15 North Yorkshire County Council The Centenary Way 6. Coneysthorpe to Firby 6.9 miles 19 . Turn left on the main road for 200 21 . Exit onto the road over the stile and yards to reach a white gate. Turn right turn right up the road. Cross the road through the gate and follow the track in with care and take the turning opposite a southeasterly direction, turning left to Cranbeck Village. After 200 yards across the parkland at the footpath sign pass through a gap in the hedge to rejoin the track at the wood edge. signed Centenary Way onto a minor Turn left and follow the track over a road. Follow the road for 100 yards concrete bridge. Continue on the track, passing through a beech hedge and turning right through the buildings of then immediately left to a gate leading Bog Hall with the main building on your into a wood. Through the gate and turn right onto the track heading in a right on a good path. The York to southerly direction to the farm buildings Scarborough rail line may be seen to at Low Gaterley. Low Gaterley is about the left in the valley bottom. Follow this 1 mile from Bog Hall. Turn right at Low path southwards until a clear turn to the Gaterley and right again at the surfaced left drops steeply down. Turn left here minor lane, now heading west. and at the bottom turn right on a clear Follow this lane for 0.5 mile. path though the woods to reach a 20 . Turn left on a track between fields surfaced track. Over the track and at ST722692 to reach the woodland continue through the wooded area over edge. Turn left on a good track, signed a number of small footbridges and Crambeck, along the edge of the wood boardwalks to exit through a gate into a for 0.5 mile, turning right downhill just field. Follow the path through three before an obelisk, The Four Faces. fields and several gateways to go This is one of a number of structures through a small gate to the road just associated with and in the grounds of above Kirkham Bridge. Castle Howard. Follow the path, signed 22 . Turn left down the road, over the Centenary Way, initially downhill and bridge and follow the road up the hill, then uphill into open country with a passing the entrance to Kirkham Priory hedge on the left, still heading south. and on up the hill turning left at the next Continue on a good track now with a junction just before The Stone Trough wooden fence on the right. At the sign Inn. Continue upwards and along this post (SE730681) continue for 300 yards road for 0.3 mile. Soon after a lone pine then turn left at a further sign towards tree in the hedge, find a stile on the left. Cranbeck. Continue forward towards Over the stile and turn right following the Cranbeck, now with hedge on the right, field edge to the field boundary. Turn and then cross another field to a gate left with the hedge on the right and at the corner of a wood. Through the follow this down to a field corner. gate and follow this enclosed path with wood on the left and fence on the right as far as the main A64 road.

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Coneysthorpe Green

Kirkham Bridge

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Kirkham Priory

Legend has it that the priory owes its existence to a tragic accident. Walter l’Espec, then Lord Helmsley, and his wife Adeline had a son who was fond of riding his horses. One day his horse stumbled and threw him to the ground by the side of a stone cross, where he died instantly of a broken neck. Thereafter Walter l’Espec devoted his entire estate to holy purposes, and on the advice of his uncle, then rector of Ganton, founded a monastery on the site. It was an Augustinian House founded about 1125 and endowed with seven churches and other large possessions in Yorkshire and Northumberland. Early in its history negotiations took place for it to be handed over to the Cistercians at Rievaulx. This was no doubt due to Walter having already become a member of the Cistercian Order at Rievaulx, where he died on 15th March 1154. However these negotiations were never completed and the transfer never took place. Of the ruins that remain, the monastery gate house is one of the finest in the country with a pointed arch gracefully opening up the north façade which is enriched with carvings and shields. The figures include a seated Christ with St. Philip and St. Bartholomew, St. George and the Dragon, and David and Goliath. The shields include the arms of Vaux, Espec, Fitzralph and de Fortibus. Also remaining today is a finely carved twelfth century doorway—other parts also date from 1140, 1180 and early thirteenth century. The last prior was John Kelwick who was confirmed on 14th October 1518.

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19 North Yorkshire County Council The Centenary Way 7. Firby to Malton 5.6 miles 23 . Over the stile on the right and a rather wet wooded area and the ahead across the field to a gate. nature reserve Jeffry Bog Plantation. Through this gate and ahead through After the plantation turn right in the two more gates through the grounds next field and follow the path to exit on of Firby Hall to reach a drive. Turn left a minor road. on the drive and then right onto a road 24 . Turn left on the road, then left at to reach a road junction. Turn left at the next junction passing over Howlbeck the junction, now heading east out of Bridge along the road leading to Firby on a good track for 0.4 mile to Menethorpe with the river still on your reach a field boundary passing the left. Where the road turns sharp right, Yorkshire Water small treatment works after 0.7 mile from the last road on the right. Through the field junction, go left on a surfaced path boundary and turn left with the leading to an attractive suspension wooded area on the left, and follow bridge. Do not cross the bridge but this field-side path to a field corner. continue on the riverside path under a Now ahead into the wood and down to rail bridge. This riverside path is a gate giving access to an uncultivated followed for 3 miles generally in field. Across the field to the River a northeasterly direction to reach the Derwent. Turn right and follow the play area inside the flood defence riverside path upstream through fields, walls near Malton Station.

Centenary Way alongside the River Derwent

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The Old Lodge is a stunning Tudor mansion set in beautiful grounds, now used as an hotel

River Derwent in Malton

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Malton and Norton-on-Derwent The River Derwent forms a natural boundary between the townships of Malton and Norton-on-Derwent. Before the 1974 local government reorganisation it was the boundary between the North and East Ridings over much of its length. Both towns are now in North Yorkshire and Ryedale District, though each town has its own Town Council. During the reign of Queen Anne, the Derwent was made navigable from Malton to its confluence with the Ouse near Barmby on the Marsh. This environmentally friendly means of transport was of considerable importance, as it provided trading links between major industrial centres and much farming activity (it is the gateway to the vast Wolds farms), despatching grain, hides and butter, for which Malton became renowned. In return Malton received supplies of coal, wood and general groceries, leading to the growth and prosperity of the local community. The com - ing of the railways in the mid-nineteenth century led to the decline of river trading. It is on record that around the time when the railways serving Malton were under construction, the brother of Charles Dickens lived in Greengate, Malton. During this period Charles Dickens is said to have been a regular visitor to the town. Now, just before Christmas each year a Dickens Festival is held when many people wear period costume . It is interesting to note that when the Romans came to Malton in AD70, they had marched from Lincoln, crossing the Humber near Brough, then over the Wolds to Norton on a route that was to become the Wolds Way. Roman Malton, or ‘Deventio’ as it was known, is fully described in a booklet which is available from the Malton Museum, situated in the Old Town Hall in the market place.

The Parish Church of St. Michael, New Malton

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Wharram Percy This deserted Medieval village is one of the most remarkable and famous features of the Yorkshire Wolds. The early settlement was built on a hill to the west of the church. In the late twelfth century, the Percy family built a large manor house nearby but later abandoned it in favour of a site up the hill to the north. Consequently the village was extended several hundred yards north again to where the track divides to the present church. Records mention an estimated population of seven hundred and fifty living in some one hundred and fifty cottages. Recent pottery finds indicate that someone was there until at least 1500, when the cloth making industry was growing rapidly. As a consequence of this, more wool was needed and gradually the whole parish was turned into a 1500 acre sheep run. With no ploughing and associated employment the men folk became redundant and were forced to seek work elsewhere. As a result empty cottages collapsed and gradually grassed over.

Mill Pond and Church, Wharram Percy

23 North Yorkshire County Council The Centenary Way 8. Malton to North Grimston 5.2 miles 25 . Go through the play area to exit 27 . Turn right on Back Lane, up the hill via Riverside Way next to the river past a road junction to reach a track bridge on Railway Street. Cross Rail - on the left after 520 yards. Turn left on way Street to enter the Riverside Way the track towards Kirk Hill. Follow the footpath. Follow the footpath to exit on track to Kirk Hill Farm and turn right Norton Road then turn left for 100 yards before the buildings on a track. After to reach the level crossing. Over the 100 yards a stile in the fence on the level crossing and turn left onto right leads across a field to a small Church Street. Ahead and turn right footbridge. Cross the footbridge and onto Wold Street, next to the Railway walk south with the stream Tavern and after 100 yards turn left (Settrington Beck) on the left and a onto Wood Street passing the premises hedge close on the right. This path of Bright Steels Limited, then right into continues south over several stiles Beverley Road. Follow Beverley Road and past a line of trees to Bellmanear southeastwards for 0.8 mile, passing Farm. Pass the farm to the right the car showrooms Chapmans of avoiding the ford and onto the farm Norton, and then Norton Lodge on the access track. Cross the track to a stile, left as you exit into the countryside. over the stile and turn right with the 26 . Beyond Norton Lodge turn left on fence on your right.Still heading south, a good farm track across fields. cross three fields to North Grimston. Where the track ends at SE 810 707 Exit the last field by a stone stile onto go ahead in an easterly direction with the lane. Turn left and reach the road. hedge and ditch on right. Then over a stile, eventually reaching a dismantled railway. Up through a hedge onto the embankment and turn right following the track for 220 yards to exit left down River Derwent near Low Hutton and over a footbridge into a field. Cross the field in an easterly direction to a field corner to pass through a wooded area and onto a lane. Go forward on the lane to exit on the road on the western edge of Settrington. Follow the road through Settrington for nearly a mile to reach a road junction with Back Lane

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Crown copyright and database rights 2013 Ordnance Survey 1007946 25 North Yorkshire County Council The Centenary Way 9. North Grimston to Toisland Wold 4.9 miles 28 . Continue forward to the bend in The church on a small hill is passed the road adjacent to a telephone box. on your right along this white-fenced Cross the stream here and turn left on road. At the next left 300 yards beyond the bridleway (narrow and close to the the church turn left on a minor road. stream) with a fence on your right to a Follow this road, over Mill Beck, gate giving access to an enclosed around the next bend for 0.5 mile to bridleway. Forward through trees to another bend in the road. pass under a disused rail viaduct and 31 . Ahead now on an un-surfaced into open ground. Uphill and with a unclassified road heading south stream on the left follow the path up to between fields to pass through a find a wooden gate in the fence ahead. gateway leading to open ground. Through the gate and onto the unfenced Keep ahead, now uphill towards road ahead. Birdsal l Brow. Where the track bears 29 . Over the road and through the right at a footpath sign, go forward gate ahead. This bridleway now follows bearing slightly left eventually coming the fence and stream for 1.2 miles close to a fence on the left. Pass through several fields and passing through another gateway near the midway through a gateway to the farm buildings and house at Toisland other side of the stream via a field Farm. Ahead with the farm on your gate to reach the road at a bridge over right onto a farm access track to Mill Beck at SE 821 665. reach the end of an unfenced road. 30 . Cross the bridge and continue on Turn left here on a farm track to a the road into Birdsall heading south. track junction.

Riverside path near Jeffry Bog Plantation

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Crown copyright and database rights 2013 Ordnance Survey 1007946 27 North Yorkshire County Council The Centenary Way 10. Toisland Wold to Wharram le Street 6.1 miles 32 . Turn right here through trees and northwards, using the fingerposts for shortly reach a good field-side path. 0.5 mile to a track junction with the Ahead with the field boundary to your Yorkshire Wolds Way at SE 847 628. left to a field gate at SE 835 626. 35 . Turn right here and follow this track Through the gate and downhill on a with hedge on the right through two clear path with a fence on the left to a gateways and eventually reaching a gate in the fence at the bottom. path/bridleway junction near a metal Through the gate and bear left uphill gate. Turn left here and head north to a kissing gate in a wire fence. along Deep Dale gently descending Through this gate and turn right steeply to the deserted medieval settlement uphill with a fence on the right to a of Wharram Percy. Cross the stream kissing gate near the top. Through the near the pond and the follow the track gate and ahead with an immature past the ruined church to exit onto a hedge on the right to a finger post at disused railway track (former Malton the top corner of this field. Turn left at to Driffield rail line closed in 1958). the finger post and follow the field edge Turn left and follow this disused rail to a stile on the right. line to a road beyond a disused quarry 33 . Over the stile and now ahead on (now a Yorkshire Wildlife Trust Reserve the track between fields. Follow this famous for it’s orchids and butterflies) track downhill to the road at the Wolds on the right. village of Thixendale. Turn left on the 36 . Turn right up the road and follow it road through the village to the first road all the way to the crossroads at the junction on the left. Turn left here, village of Wharram le Street. The Centenary Way is now coincident with passing the public house on the right, the Yorkshire Wolds Way for the next to the track and a stile leading to a 23 miles until they separate in Stocking wooden pavilion in a field. Over the Dale. Turn left on the main road stile and pass the pavilion on your left heading north using the pavement on to find a clear footpath leading slightly the left to reach a bridleway on the uphill on the left just past the pavilion. right at the end of the village. Cross Follow this path across the hill side the road with great care on to the passing a fingerpost in a fence line bridleway and follow this uphill and before reaching a farm track. Turn righ t northwards to the road at SE 862 673 on the track and then left to a gate in (High Street). Cross with care and still the fence ahead. heading northwards head down past 34 . Through the gate and now uphill the large Dutch barn and other farm diagonally left following the clear path buildings. Pass through the hedge on along the upper path of this steep bank your left turning right and downhill to a to a gate on the right. Through this gate finger post in the field corner. and uphill with the field boundary on your left to a fingerpost at a track junction. Now follow this track, gener ally 28 The Centenary Way

Water Dale

Crown copyright and database rights 2013 Ordnance Survey 1007946 29 North Yorkshire County Council The Centenary Way 11. Wharram le Street to Settrington Beacon 3.7 miles 37 . Turn left here with the field 38 . Continue to follow this track boundary on your right. Continue to a generally northwards to enter a stile in the fence on the right. Over the woodland path at SE859 690 through stile and turn left, fence on your left to a gate. Follow the path with fence on a fingerpost. Turn right downhill across right northwards to exit on a track. open land to reach a footbridge over a Turn left through the wooded area and stream in the bottom. Over the footbridge then right to continue northwards to and now uphill passing two lone trees the farm buildings at High Bellmanear. to reach a fingerpost and farm track. Go past the building and continue on Turn right and follow the track through the track to the road and the water a gateway and continue on uphill, tower at Settrington Beacon. bearing left then right to pass though the farm yard at Wood House Farm.

Bridleway north from Settrington Beacon

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Crown copyright and database rights 2013 Ordnance Survey 1007946 31 North Yorkshire County Council The Centenary Way 12. Settrington Beacon to Abbey Plantation 5.3 miles 39 . Take the track opposite, into the Turn left here, before the boundary wood past the trig point on the left, and and road, and take the field edge path down the hill. After nearly half a mile uphill with hedge on the right to a stile turn right with the track and after 300 into the wood at the top. yards turn sharp left on a path down 41 . Over the stile and turn left on a hill to exit the wood via stile next to a good track which is followed for half a field gate. Over the stile, bearing mile to a fingerpost indicating a steep left down hill on a sunken track to gradient where the track goes sharp reach a finger post at a field corner. left. Take a deep breath and go up the Turn right and northwards on a farm steep path, reaching a gate at the top. track to pass Rowgate farm buildings Through the gate and forward onto a on the left, and continuing north for 1.2 path on top of ancient Earthwork, miles to a footpath on the right. Turn following this downhill to reach a right here towards Wintringham with surfaced bridleway. a hedge on the left, across two fields 42 . Turn right here and uphill following to a gap in the hedge corner. Through the surfaced bridleway past buildings the gap and now across the field and a communication tower on the ahead in a diagonal direction half left right to a gate next to a caravan park. to metal gate. Through the gate to an Through the gap at the side of the enclosed area with a stream and gate and forward with hedge on right pond. Over the footbridge here and for 200 yards to a fingerpost. Turn left forward to the road. and down the enclosed bridleway to a 40 . Turn left and cross with care to the gate at the edge of the wood. Through footway on the opposite side following the gate, turn right on an enclosed the footway for 300 yards to a track bridleway along the top edge of the junction on the right. (Turning right at escarpment in the wood. Continue on the road will take you into Wintringham this track keeping to the top edge of and a Post Office Shop). Turn sharp the wood to reach a kissing gate. right at the track junction and follow this track through a gate into fields on the north side of the village. Follow the field edge with hedge on the right over several fields eventually passing the church on the right and reaching a field boundary at a road corner.

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Thixendale

Crown copyright and database rights 2013 Ordnance Survey 1007946 33 North Yorkshire County Council The Centenary Way 13. Abbey Plantation to Crowsdale Wood 3.5 miles 43 . Through the kissing gate leaving 44 . Turn right with immature hedge the wood behind, and now with a field boundary on the left. This well fence on the left, head forward on a marked path, coincident with the footpath alongside a wood to a Yorkshire Wolds Way is followed for fingerpost at a field corner SE 909 749. 2.6 miles along the edge of the East Turn right here with hedge and road Heslerton Brow escarpment. below on left to a kissing gate on the The A64 York to Scarborough road left. Through the gate and across the can be seen and heard in the valley road to a track opposite. Forward on below from this high-level path. the track with wood on the left to the Following waymarks, walk the path, wood corner after 150 yards. Turn left observing several minor turns, field here and follow the field boundary to boundaries, gates and stiles. At the next corner. SE948 755 join a minor tarmac road.

Honey Dale

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Crown copyright and database rights 2013 Ordnance Survey 1007946 35 North Yorkshire County Council The Centenary Way 14. Crowsdale Wood to Staxton Wold Farm 5.7 miles 45 . Turn left downhill on this unfenced boundary and continue with the hedge minor road to a track junction after 300 on the right over two large fields to yards. Here join the roadside path on gate in the fence near a strip wood. the right to continue downhill with the Through the gate and turn right uphill road on the left rejoining the road near with the wood on the right and go left a disused chalk pit. Turn right and through the next field boundary. continue downhill on the road for 0.4 Continue with hedge on left to Wold mile to a track junction on the right. Lane at TA 000 779. Turn right here across this field to the 48 . Turn right up this good track to a road near Hill Mill Farm. Turn right on stile next to a field gate. Over the stile the road to the next road junction and continue uphill on a sunken path where you turn left uphill for 300 yards to another stile. Over this stile and to find a gate and bridleway on the uphill to pass another stile into a field. left. Left through the gate and still on Continue now with hedge on right to a the Yorkshire Wolds Way head east fingerpost at the top field corner. Turn across the hillside, reaching the wood left here and right over a stile at the at Potter Brompton Brow. next corner into a field. Follow the field 46 . Turn right uphill to a stile and gate. edge southwards to another stile in Through the gate and into a wooded the hedge on the left. Over this stile area bearing left and northwards to and forward to the road at Staxton exit the woods into a field via a gate. Wold Farm. Continue downhill with a hedge on the right which becomes an enclosed bridleway to reach a field corner. Turn right here on a good track following this forward past a fuel store to the road at Manor Farm, Potter Brompton. Turn right on the road and quickly left again heading generally northeastwards along this track to the road at Ganton, near Ganton Hall. 47 . Turn left on the road for 250 yards and right at the road junction. Ahead now for 100 yards to find a fingerpost on the right and a path leading behind houses. Take this path, with wooden fence on left, leading to open fields. At the first field pass through the field Wharram Percy Wold

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Crown copyright and database rights 2013 Ordnance Survey 1007946 37 North Yorkshire County Council The Centenary Way 15. Staxton Wold Farm to Sharpe Howe 3.0 miles 49 . Cross the road with care and 50 . Turn left here and climb the steep ahead now on the RAF station access enclosed path to reach a kissing gate road. Follow this for 0.75 mile to the and then another kissing gate at the RAF station. Turn right at the station top. The path now follows the field and follow this surfaced road until it edge in an easterly direction to a field becomes a track beyond High Farm. corner. Turn right here for 100 yards to Continue in the same direction on the a finger post. Turn left here, now track descending into Cotton Dale heading east-northeast along a field Slack to find a fingerpost and footpath boundary. This boundary is now on the left near the bottom. followed, uphill and down dale for a mile to reach the road at Sharpe How passing several kissing gates on three field boundaries.

Cotton Dale

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Crown copyright and database rights 2013 Ordnance Survey 1007946 39 North Yorkshire County Council The Centenary Way 16. Sharpe Howe to Hunmanby 4.3 miles 51 . Turn right on the road for 330 53 . Turn right on the road keeping on yards to a kissing gate on the left. the verge until the village sign and Through the gate and head east then crossing to the pavement. Keep alongside the field edge for 0.7 mile to ahead into Hunmanby village to the the third finger post on the left mini roundabout. Cross the Muston indicating a right turn. Turn right here Road to the raised footway alongside across the field to a fenced field the road and continue ahead to the corner. Pass to the left of this, keeping next road junction. Turn left here on the fence on the right and follow the Northgate and follow this until the road fence around the next left corner for bends sharp right at the edge of the the next half mile to a waymarker on a village. Ahead now on a lane which fence post. Now head across the slope soon becomes a farm access track to half left in an easterly direction without North Moor Farm. losing height to find a fingerpost in the field boundary ahead near two lone hawthorn trees. At the fingerpost turn right downhill with fence on the left to a kissing gate in the bottom. 52 . Through the gate and follow the clear path across the valley bottom to reach Stocking Dale. Here the Centenary Way separates from the Yorkshire Wolds Way National Trail. Turn sharp right at the fingerpost along the valley bottom through another kissing gate and ahead to join a track heading uphill. Follow the track to a gap in the hedge on the left at the top. Turn left here heading northeast across fields to the buildings at Field House Farm. After the first building turn right between the barns and at the end turn left on a track. Now ahead with farm buildings, then the farm house, on the left to reach a good farm access track. Follow the track, still northeast, to reach the road just beyond Windmill House. Raven Dale

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Crown copyright and database rights 2013 Ordnance Survey 1007946 41 North Yorkshire County Council The Centenary Way 17. Hunmanby to Filey Brigg 3.8 miles 54 . At the farm gate turn right on a 55 . Turn left along the cliff path to path through a kissing gate and then steps into a ravine. Down the steps across two fields to a stile next to a and turn right to the sea front. Café field gate. Over the stile and ahead on and toilets here. Turn left along the a track to reach the A165 trunk road. promenade (Royal Parade) and Cross with care and continue ahead continue for half a mile passing the on the A1039 road towards Filey. paddling pool and other seafront After 100 yards turn right on a attractions to the Lifeboat Station and surfaced lane. Follow the lane, the Cobble Landing. Turn left just passing two caravan sites and a farm before the Lifeboat Station up Ravine to cross a railway and on past a golf Road and immediately on the right club-house. After the club-house the take the steps steeply up the hill to the lane reaches the cliff. cliff top, signed Wolds Way. Follow the cliff top path to join the Cleveland Way National Trail and the finish of the walk on Filey Brigg.

Filey

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About the Author

John Sparshatt has been a volunteer with North Yorkshire County Council since 2010, helping with waymarking, path clearance, route development and the rewriting of the Centenary Way. Together with Walkers are Welcome (Otley) and the County Council, he designed and was part of a team, which developed the successful ‘Six Dales Trail’ long distance footpath from Otley to Middleham traversing the Nidderdale AONB from South to North. He is a keen photographer and has taken all the photographs for this publication

John has been on the executive committee of the Long Distance Walkers Association (LDWA) since 1998. He currently holds the position of Chair . He has been involved with the LDWA database of long distance footpaths in the UK and is co-author of the UK Trail Walkers Handbook, a directory of long distance paths in the UK. He has organized over 50 challenge walks including three of the LDWA annual 100 mile walks in his home county of Yorkshire. He advises and assists on long distance paths throughout the UK. For more information about the LDWA please visit www.ldwa.org.uk. For information about volunteering with North Yorkshire County Council visit www.northyorks.gov.uk/volunteers.

The Centenary Way Long Distance Walk Guide

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Acknowledgements Grateful thanks to Mike Bartholomew of the ‘Ramblers’ for proof reading the text.

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