Ramblers Routes Ramblers Routes Britain’s best walks from the experts Britain’s best walks from the experts Northern England Northern England 03 Fridaythorpe, East Yorkshire 04 Galgate to Glasson Dock, Lancashire l Distance 16½km/10 miles l Time 5hrs l Type Country l Distance 27km/17 miles l Time 8hrs l Type Towpath and estuary NAVIGATION LEVEL FITNESS LEVEL NAVIGATION LEVEL FITNESS LEVEL walk magazine autumn 2015 autumn magazine walk walk magazine autumn 2015 autumn magazine walk Plan your walk Plan your walk FRIDAYTHORPE GALGATE l York l Blackpool l P Leeds Hull l LANCASHIRE YORKSHIRE Liverpool l AUL MILES P HY: FIONA BARLTRO HY: HY: HY: P P WHERE Circular walk from WHERE Circular walk from Fridaythorpe via Huggate and Galgate, near Lancaster, via PHOTOGRA Wayrham, where there is a Glasson Dock. PHOTOGRA picnic site. START/END Canalside Crafts Notable for being the highest annually in September (www. The Lancaster Canal was known as the marina opposite on your START/END Roadside parking Centre car park, Galgate village on the Yorkshire Wolds, visithullandeastyorkshire.com/ ‘the Black and White’, as the main L. Turn R at the pretty Junction near village green/pond, (SD483551). Fridaythorpe is also the halfway events/wolds-walking-festival. cargoes to travel between Kendal Bridge to follow the towpath Back Street, Fridaythorpe TERRAIN Level grassy and point of the 127km Yorkshire aspx). This very pleasant walk and Preston in the 19th century of the Glasson arm of the canal, (SE875591). tarmac tracks and a section Wolds Way National Trail, which follows stretches of the Yorkshire were coal and limestone. This passing the first of six locks, which TERRAIN Low hills, dry of uneven riverside path begins on the banks of the Wolds Way. circular walk starts from the take the water lily-edged canal valleys of chalk grassland and (for which there is a level, Humber and finishes at the canalside village of Galgate. It’s down through fields to Glasson quiet country lanes. About car-free tarmac alternative). headland of Filey Brigg in the 1. START Either before starting a long walk, linking a stretch of Basin. At lock six, you reach your half the route follows the MAPS OS Explorer 296; north. A most attractive feature out or at the end of the walk, the Lancashire Coastal Way with first refreshment stop, the Mill well waymarked Yorkshire Landranger 97 & 102. of the Yorkshire Wolds is their take time to view the 12th-century the towpath of the Lancaster at Conder Green. Wolds Way National Trail. GETTING THERE Bus 40 characteristic dry valleys, and there Norman church, the oldest Canal, but the route is mostly level MAPS OS Explorer 294; stops at Galgate on trips is nowhere better to explore them building in the village. Of and the terrain is tarmac or grass. 2. At Glasson Basin, where Landranger 106. between Morecambe, than the countryside around particular note is the black-and- It’s easy to shorten the distance narrowboats moor near yachts, GETTING THERE There is a Lancaster and Preston Fridaythorpe. The rolling chalk white Edwardian clock face on by 12km by taking a bus from turn R across a small car park. Cross railway station at Driffield, (www.stagecoachbus.com). hills and valleys that comprise the the tower, with the words ‘Time Lancaster back to the start, but the road and follow the cycle track and a very limited bus service EATING & DRINKING Café Yorkshire Wolds are, in fact, the is short/Eternity is long’ inscribed you would miss a view of the to the R. (For toilets, cafés and (135) from Driffield to d’Lune, Conder Green northernmost section of a on it. Also of interest is the splendid Georgian aqueduct over pub in Glasson, take a short Fridaythorpe run by East (✆ 01524 752048; www. continuous band of chalk that attractive bus/walkers’ shelter the River Lune (pictured above) diversion to the L.) Follow the cycle Yorkshire Motor Services, cafedlune.co.uk); Canalside extends across the country from alongside the village green, which and the pretty canalside walk. track with the estuary on your L, (www.eyms.co.uk). National Craft Centre, Galgate Dorset. Here, in East Yorkshire, it is one of a number of public There are several refreshment and then cross the River Conder. After Express service 563 runs from (✆ 01524 752223, www. forms a crescent, stretching from artworks along the Yorkshire toilet stops along the way. the bridge, the Café d’Lune has London to Scarborough canal sidecraftcentre.co.uk). the Humber to the North Sea, Wolds Way created as part of the outside seating with views across via York and Fridaythorpe SLEEPING Wagon & Horses, terminating at the dramatic cliffs Wander art project. From here, 1. START Turn R out of the small the estuary. Follow the cycle track (✆ 0871 200 2233, St George’s Quay, Lancaster of Bempton and Flamborough head to the main road, turn R and car park at Canalside Crafts Centre from here towards Lancaster. www.traveline.info). (✆ 01524 846094, www. Head. This is the most northerly soon L along Huggate Lane (the in Galgate. Cross a little brick You’re now walking along the EATING & DRINKING wagonandhorseslancaster. chalk outcrop in Britain and a route is clearly signed Yorkshire bridge over the canal and turn former single-line railway route Seaways Café, Fridaythorpe co.uk); the Mill at Conder lovely area for walking. A walking Wolds Way). The lane becomes immediately L through a gate to from Lancaster to Glasson Dock. (✆ 01377 288203, Green (✆ 01524 752852, ▲ ▲ ▼ and outdoors festival takes place a track and reaches a junction. follow the canal southwards with There is the option of walking ▼ P49-50_WALK48_RAMBLERS ROUTE_NORTH.indd 1 11/08/2015 11:15 Created withMemory-Map.©Crowncopyright2015OrdnanceSurveyMedia048/15 Created withMemory-Map.©Crowncopyright2015OrdnanceSurveyMedia048/15 Continued... Continued... 4 www.themillatcondergreen. www.seawayscafe Map not to scale. co.uk). START Representation of fridaythorpe.co.uk); Wolds FINISH VISITOR INFORMATION OS Landranger Inn, Huggate (✆ 01377 288217, MAP 97 1:50,000 1 Lancaster Visitor Information www.woldsinn.co.uk). www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk 6 Centre, Meeting House Lane SLEEPING B&B at Wolds Inn (✆ 01524 582394, (see above); self-catering at www.visitlancaster.org.uk). Field House Farm Cottages 2 GUIDEBOOK Walks in the (✆ 01262 674932, Lune Valley published by www.fieldhousefarmcottages. Lancaster Ramblers co.uk). These award-winning (£2.95 plus £1 p&p, cottages are in a lovely ISBN 978 1906494117). 3 location, an ideal base for the LOCAL RAMBLERS GROUP Yorkshire Wolds and coast. Lancaster Ramblers VISITOR INFORMATION 5 (contact Sheila Jones on Bridlington TIC, Prince Street ✆ 01524 732305 or visit www. (✆ 01482 391634, www. lancasterramblers.org.uk). visithullandeastyorkshire.com). GUIDEBOOKS Yorkshire 4 Wolds Way by Tony Gowers along the foreshore, but this is and Roger Ratcliffe not (yet) an official path. There Map not to scale. (£14.99, Aurum, ISBN 978 3 are several benches with estuary Representation of 1781310649); Pathfinder OS Explorer views along the cycleway, good Guides: Vale of York and MAP 294 1:25,000 for picnic stops and spotting www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk the Yorkshire Wolds – oystercatchers and other waders Walks (£11.99, Crimson, on the shore. You may also hear ISBN 978 1854585400). the strange gurgling call of little LOCAL RAMBLERS GROUP egrets nesting nearby. To download this route and hundreds of others, 2 Pocklington Ramblers visit www.ramblers.org.uk/routes (✆ 01904 760218, www. 3. You will reach a small lane eastyorkshireramblers.org.uk/ branching R, Aldcliffe Hall Lane. START 3. Return to the junction, turn L to a lane. Turn R along the lane, FINISH groups/pocklington). At this point, turn L and go 1 (from the direction of Huggate) ignoring turns to reach the through the kissing gate to follow and follow the access road Wayrham picnic area/car park, the shoreline to New Quay Road, 2. Still following the national trail, towards Glebe Farm, turning off L just off the A166. Lancaster. Sheep graze on the keep ahead through the bridle onto a footpath that bypasses it. foreshore and wind turbines turn gate and walk down Holm Dale Just after rejoining the access road 5. Cross the main road and head down Wayrham Dale, continuing in the distance. At the road, To download this route and hundreds of others, (access land), the first of the dry you’ll reach a fork where you leave continue with the river on the L. the Yorkshire Wolds Way. along Bradeham Dale to the visit www.ramblers.org.uk/routes valleys you’ll experience on this You pass under Carlisle railway walk. At a junction where three junction with Thixendale and bridge – worth a detour to have a valleys meet (Holm Dale, Horse 4. Bear R along the footpath, Worm Dale, where you rejoin the the bus station back to Galgate). was opened in 1797. It carries the view from the pedestrian walkway. Dale and Harper Dale), bear R, following the field edge. The path Yorkshire Wolds Way. Here is the You soon pass a large Sainsbury’s canal 16m above the River Lune. There are splendid buildings along as signed, to ascend to the top leads back to the southern end of location of another Wander with a café and toilets. Continue to Ascend the steps to the canal and the riverside here, including two of Horse Dale, where you’ll find Horse Dale, from where there is a artwork called Waves and Time. follow the tarmac cycleway until turn R to follow the towpath all pubs. The fine neoclassical a pair of wooden benches, again fine view along its length. Turn L you reach the Lune Aqueduct.