WALKING AND OUTDOORS FESTIVAL 7TH - 15TH SEPTEMBER 2019

© Jones Martin Booking Clothing and what For health and safety to bring with you WALK, CYCLE, RIDE, reasons some events have Warm and waterproof a maximum number of clothing and suitable participants. Booking is footwear is recommended essential for these events. on all events. Please wear EAT, DRINK, EXPLORE Please book early as places walking boots on all walks. are limited. Please bring plenty to drink and on longer events you & DISCOVER Details of how to book can may need a packed lunch. If be found with each individual refreshments are available at event. Some events do not the event location this will be This fabulous festival in the beautiful range of outdoor pursuits including cycling, require pre-booking. Wolds offers superb activities that will appeal special interest and historical walks, horse stated in the programme or to families, casual walkers and enthusiasts riding, nature safaris, nordic walking, historic Cancellations and when you make your booking. alike. house & parkland tours, specialist guided refunds Cycle Rides Now in it’s 9th year the walks, boat trips and even a Buddhist No refund will be given unless All cycles must be roadworthy Walking and Outdoors Festival 2019 has experience plus lots more. the event is cancelled by and in a good working grown in reputation showcasing the wonderful For a full list of events in the East Riding of the organisers or there are condition. If in doubt please landscape and celebrating the rich heritage Yorkshire, please visit: exceptional circumstances. get your bike professionally of the Yorkshire Wolds. Pick from an exciting www.visithullandeastyorkshire.com Arriving at your serviced prior to the ride. All event participants must wear a You are advised to arrive at correctly fitting cycle safety the event at least 10 minutes helmet. On family rides it before the start time. There is recommended that each will be an event leader there adult is responsible for no to meet you whatever the more than 2 children. Please weather. In unsafe conditions ride your bike in accordance a safety assessment will be to the guidelines of the About the events made and a decision may be Highway Code. taken to cancel the event if Horse Rides necessary. Horse and rider must have Gentle walk suitable for most levels of fitness. the fitness and competence Short countryside walks mainly on flat paths. What you need A cycle A horse Family to know to take part in the event ride ride event All young people under 16 and (if on your own horse) attending the events listed 3rd party liability insurance. Moderate walk suitable for average fitness. FRONT COVER must be accompanied by an Participants must wear Countryside walks with a few gradients and About Martin Jones adult. a hi-viz jacket if provided, sometimes steps. Boots recommended. Toilet Dog Boating appropriate footwear and a Based in East Yorkshire, Martin facilities friendly event Photographs hard hat of current standard. Jones paints vibrant and Please note we may take Strenuous walk suitable for those with a good compelling contemporary photographs at our events. Any Queries level of fitness. Countryside walks with steep landscape paintings in his own Photos might be used in If you have an enquiry gradients, steps or rough terrain. Swimming Canoeing Meditation distinctive style. future publicity. If you have about any of the events or Boots essential. event event event His paintings are inspired by the any objections please advise would like further leaflets land and sea of the Yorkshire the leader at the start of the to be sent to you free of county. Views of coastal seaside event. charge please call 01482 towns and harbour villages, 391672 or email .

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2 www.theyorkshirewolds.com www.theyorkshirewolds.com 3 Walking the Town Grateful thanks to the organisations who have Walking the town is a new initiative to provide a central hub for information on town walking in the East Riding. Market Towns have contributed events to this festival come together to showcase their best town walks and encourage visitors to their local high street. The platform is currently being developed and will be showcased through the Visit Hull and East The Ramblers Yorkshire Website. The Ramblers Association has more than 400 local groups in over 50 areas of the country. East Yorkshire Ramblers groups provide a full and Go to visithullandeastyorkshire.com for further information. varied walks programme and are also actively involved in monitoring, maintaining and improving the local rights of way network and The Pilgrimage of Grace preserving the beauty of our countryside. We also support and Nine walks (one for each day of the festival) have been developed by promote the national Walking for Health programme. the Walkers are Welcome group. Each walk will have a Go to eastyorkshireramblers.org.uk for more information. leader and an introductory commentary at the start or an ongoing A special thank you to the Pocklington Ramblers for leading the commentary en route from one of the heritage team members. walk. The Pilgrimage of Grace is the name assumed by religious insurgents who, in 1536 in the North of , opposed Henry VIII’s dissolution Yorkshire Wildlife Trust of the monasteries. The rebellion united every able bodied man in Yorkshire Wildlife Trust is a local charity working to protect Yorkshire’s every parish of the East Riding and each parish has a contribution to wildlife, both on land and out at sea. With the support of members make to this fascinating piece of history. and volunteers, the trust cares for over 90 nature reserves across the county, and provides events and guided walks all year round. For more Yorkshire Wolds Way information on nature reserves, membership, volunteering and events The Yorkshire Wolds present amazing chalk landscapes with dry valleys visit ywt.org.uk. and stunning wildlife alongside vibrant market towns and ancient villages. Whether you’re seeking peace and quiet or family days out there’s The Sunday Girls Road Club something here for you on the 79 mile route. The club is a friendly, social and supportive women’s only cycling Visit club. We aim to be an inclusive, non-competitive and fun club with nationaltrail.co.uk/yorkshire-wolds-way members from a wide variety of backgrounds. The club has weekly lead rides which are open to any lady who wants to come and have a Walking for Health try and who has a roadworthy bike, be it a mountain bike, road bike or The scheme is a series of free guided walks for all ages and abilities, hybrid. The rides vary in length and level and are posted on the page aimed at anyone who has an interest in walking or wants to slowly as an event. Anyone can come along and no one is ever left behind. introduce exercise into their daily routine as part of rehabilitation We cycle as fast as the slowest rider and have a buddy system to from illness, injury or to get fit. We offer a range of walks starting from ensure your cycling experience with our club is a good one. 30 minutes to 2 hours. Walking is almost the perfect exercise, requiring Visit our membership page to find out more: no expense, almost anyone can do it and it’s the best way for people sundaygirlsroadclub.co.uk from all walks of life to become more active gradually. For more information visit walkingforhealth.org.uk. Ride Yorkshire For walks in the East Riding contact Laura Hutchinson on Ride Yorkshire is run by horse enthusiasts keen to encourage others to 01482 392527 or Email: [email protected] explore the beautiful Yorkshire countryside on horseback. The Wolds boasts some superb trail rides, and Ride Yorkshire provides leaflets to Get Your Boots On download for self-guided rides. There are several equestrian centres Get Your Boots On (GYBO) is a friendly and sociable walking group, which give a great variety of riding experiences. covering North Yorkshire, East Yorkshire and the surrounding areas. For further information go to rideyorkshire.org.uk. The group is aimed at people in their 20’s, 30’s and the young at heart. We are also a part of The Ramblers, East Yorkshire and Walkers are Welcome Derwent Area. We have walks most weekends, as well as regular A national initiative which now has over 100 member towns who social events in Hull and , plus weekend trips away to Scotland, all promote walking activity and a warm welcome to walkers. The Lakes and other parts of the country. Find out more about our There are 3 towns in the Yorkshire Wolds namely , group and see what we have coming up at gybo.org.uk or join our and Pocklington that are already active and established facebook group. Walkers are Welcome towns. Thanks to all of them for arranging walks and events as part of this festival. walkersarewelcome.org.uk.

4 www.theyorkshirewolds.com www.theyorkshirewolds.com 5 Walk the Halls Walk the Halls is an East Riding Association of Rural Community Buildings initiative to encourage you to visit community halls in the FESTIVAL AT A GLANCE East Riding. Please contact Beverley Tourist Information Centre if you would like to discuss Let’s Ride - Breeze your suitability for any of the walks in this years guide. Pedal your way to a healthier, happier you. Set up in 2011 by British Cycling, Sport England and Sky – Breeze encourages women to get fit and have fun on their bikes. Led by women Throughout the week! Page for women, Breeze has encouraged over 20,000 women get back on A hack in the Yorkshire Wolds , Pocklington 11 their bikes, improve their fitness as well as giving them a chance to meet A breath of fresh air at RSBP Cliffs Bempton, 11 new people. The rides set out from places all over East Yorkshire: Brough, On your Bike at Point! Spurn Point, 12 , Cottingham, Beverley, to name but a few - there are Hall and Gardens Memory Walk , Bridlington 12 also rides from Noddle Hill into the Holderness countryside. Go to letsride.co.uk/breeze - to find a club near you.

Friday 6th September Page Trust Start of the Minster Way Walk York to Beverley 64/65 Driffield Navigation Trust is responsible for the Driffield Navigation which is the waterway extending from the market town of Driffield along the Driffield Canal and then the southwards as far as . Saturday 7th September Page Assisted by the Driffield Navigation Amenities Association (DNAA) it looks Climb to dizzy heights in ! Flamborough 13 after the maintenance and administration of the Driffield Navigation Striding the Point at Spurn Nature Reserve Spurn Point, Kilnsea 13 for commercial, leisure, and recreational purposes. In addition to this Nordic Walking Beverley 13 environmental, conservation and heritage matters receive attention. Such – history, pottery and the Burns family Hornsea 14 work benefits children, young people and the public in general. Kelsey Gardens Outdoor Activities 14 Visit driffieldnavigationtrust.org Darker Side of Georgian Beverley Beverley 14 The Age of Change Beverley 15 Beverley and America – a special relationship Beverley 15 The Vale of Snaith Ramble Snaith 15 A sailing on the Keep and Sloop Hull Marina 16 Sewerby Park run Sewerby, Bridlington 16 Every year in September, places across the country organise Woldgate Trek Woldgate, Bridlington 16 events and throw open their doors to celebrate their local Beverley Breeze Ladies Cycle ride Beverley 16 heritage, community and history. It’s your chance to see On your Bike at Spurn Point Spurn Point 17 hidden places and try out new experiences – and it’s all FREE. To see a...Kingfisher Tophill Low Nature Reserve 17 You are invited to ‘treasure your local treasures’ by taking part in one or more of the varied activities taking place across Hull Join us for seven and the East Riding. Sunday 8th September Page Climb to dizzy heights in Flamborough! Flamborough 18 walks between With Heritage Open Days 13th to 15th September and the A sailing on the Humber Keel and Sloop Hull Marina 18 Yorkshire Wolds Walking and Outdoors Festival 7th -15th A walk of Small Things Beverley 18 the 13th to 15th September, why not dip into both? September, 2019 Percy Hall – History, Meditation and Parkland , Pocklington 19 A list of Heritage Open Days events will be published Hornsea – History, pottery and the Burns family Hornsea 19 to celebrate by Hull Civic Society at the beginning of August on Walk along 19C Flemingate Beverley 19 heritageopendays.org.uk/visiting or you can pick up a Wykehykers Walking Club trip to Hutton-le-Hole Meet in Hull and Beverley 20 heritage brochure from libraries or Tourist Information Centres Picturesque Pocklington circular walk Pocklington 20 throughout the East Riding. On your Bike at Spurn Point Spurn Point, Kilnsea 20 open days. Woldgate Trek Woldgate, Bridlington 20 A stroll around Snaith & Cowick Snaith 21 Estate wander with views of Hornsea Mere Wassand, Hornsea 21 A Hike from Hotham Hotham 21

6 www.theyorkshirewolds.com www.theyorkshirewolds.com 7 Monday 9th September Page Thursday 12th September Page Woldgate Trek Woldgate, Bridlington 22 Wassand – a Regency Hall and Woodland Walk Wassand, Hornsea 35 Walking and Wine at Little Wold Vineyard 22 Estate Walk Market Weighton 35 Fortune and Misfortune Beverley 22 Secrets of Sewerby – an outdoor History Tour Sewerby, Bridlington 36 Windows of Beverley Beverley 23 Driffield Canal Walk to Watery Wansford and beyond Driffield 36 Green Plaques Walk. History at eye-level Beverley 23 The Alta Via Beverley 36 A walk along Foreshore taking in the Country Park Hessle 23 Politics of the Gutter Beverley 37 Sewerby Evergreens: Inside Out Sewerby, Bridlington 23 Elwell Walk Beverley 37 Sewerby Squirrels – Beach Explorers Sewerby, Bridlington 24 Pilgrimage of Grace Walk Pocklington 37 Macmillan Cancer Evening Walk Beverley 24 The Walk Hedon 37 Walking for Health - Paull 24 Yorkshire Wolds Way: and Pluckham Fridaythorpe 38 Beverley Ghost Walk Beverley 24 Walking for Health - Beverley Beverley 38 Walking for Health - Bridlington Bridlington 38 Walking for Health - Goole 38 Walking for Health - Leven Leven 39 Tuesday 10th September Page Walking for Health - Welwick 39 Hall & Gounds ‘behind the scenes’ tour Burton Constable 25 Walking for Health - Driffield Driffield 39 Doing good works Beverley 25 Wake up and smell the Lavender! Wintringham 26 The Stewarts of Burnby Hall Gardens Pocklington 26 Friday 13th September Page Secrets of Sewerby – an outdoor History Tour Sewerby, Bridlington 26 Decoding Highgate Beverley 27 A Boat Trip on the Driffield Canal Frodingham 40 Quiet Gardens of Beverley Beverley 27 Side Oven Bakery – from field to fork! 40 Larkin about Beverley Beverley 27 Tophill Low Bat Walk Tophill Low Nature Reserve 40 Walking for Health – Sewerby Hall and Gardens Sewerby, Bridlington 27 and the Sykes Family Sledmere 41 Walking for Health - Driffield Driffield 28 Bridlington Old Town Trail Bridlington 41 Walking for Health - Hessle Hessle 28 The Beverley Pub Walk – join the Inn Crowd! Beverley 41 Walking for Health - Sewerby Sewerby, Bridlington 28 Mary Wollstonecraft Beverley 41 Walking for Health – South Cave South Cave 29 Spurn Safari Spurn Point, Kilnsea 42 Striding through Driffield Driffield 29 A Walk through ’s Past Howden 42 Beverley Minster Tour Beverley 42 Snapshots of Medieval Beverley – Part 1 Beverley 43 Wednesday 11th September Page Pub walk with the Weighton Walkers Millington near Pocklington 43 Kilnwick Percy Hall – History, Meditation and Parkland Kilnwick Percy, Pocklington 30 Bats and Moths at Oakhill Nature Reserve Goole 43 Boat Cruise on Pocklington 30 On your Bike at Spurn Point Spurn Point, Kilnsea 43 Boots and Beer Walk Hunmanby Grange 31 Sewerby Hall, Costumed Volunteer Interpretation Sewerby, Bridlington 44 Sewerby Hall, Costumed Volunteer Interpretation Sewerby, Bridlington 31 Walking for Health - Pocklington Pocklington 44 The Alta Via Beverley 31 The Beck and beyond Beverley 32 Walk along 19C Flemingate Beverley 32 Wayrham Dale walk Wayrham Dale Picnic Site 32 Walking for Health - Beverley Beverley 32 Walking for Health - Haltemprice Haltemprice 33 Walking for Health - Hornsea Hornsea 33 Walking for Health – Market Weighton Market Weighton 33 Walking for Health - Preston Preston 34 Walking for Health - Withernsea 34

8 www.theyorkshirewolds.com www.theyorkshirewolds.com 9 Saturday 14th September Page The Headlands Way Walk to Bridlington 66/67 Climb to dizzy heights in Flamborough! Flamborough 45 Village Walks Yapham 45 Bats in Boxes at Millington Wood Millington, near Pocklington 46 Spurn Safari Spurn Point, Kilnsea 46 A Hike round Hedon Hedon 46 A Walk through Howden’s Past Howden 46 Stoned in Beverley Beverley 47 Out with the old and in with the new – 1120 to 2018 Beverley 47 Over 500 years of history in less than 500 footsteps! Beverley 47 Beverley Breeze Ladies Cycle ride Beverley 48 Sewerby park run Sewerby, Bridlington 48 Woldgate Trek Woldgate, Bridlington 48 On your Bike at Spurn Point Spurn, Kilnsea 48

Sunday 15th September Page THROUGHOUT THE WEEK Climb to dizzy heights in Flamborough! Flamborough 49 Pilgrimage of Grace Walk Pocklington 49 WC A hack in the Yorkshire Wolds with Burnby Equestrian The Hedon Town Walk Hedon 50 Peasants, priests and pilgrims Beverley 50 Burnby Equestrian Centre is a friendly, welcoming riding school and hacking centre Snapshots of Medieval Beverley around the North Bar Beverley 50 based at the foot of the Wolds. They offer beginner hacks around their land and Lost Houses of Risby: Where Henry VIII came to dinner! 50 are a registered centre for the Pony Club. The riding school offers private and group Birdsall Charity Ride Birdsall, Malton 51 lessons from tots to adults (4 years up). Burnby offers progression in a safe and friendly A Walk through Howden’s Past Howden 51 environment with excellent Instructors and superb horses and ponies. Hockney’s bigger trees and the village of Water 51 Times: Hacks are bookable at all times to suite you. The Walk Hedon 51 Location: The Granary, Burnby Equestrian Centre, Burnby. York. YO42 1RS Spurn Safari Spurn, Kilnsea 52 Contact: For all enquires please contact Felicity on; 07850664992. Heritage Audio Trail Swanland 52 Additional Information: Please leave a message and your call will be returned. We Geocaching Treasure Hunt Humber Bridge Country Park 52 give the horses Mondays off so we aim to answer enquiries then. Burnby also offer Fungi Foray at Millington Wood Millington Wood 53 refreshments to walkers/cyclist on Friday afternoons, Saturday and Sunday from 9am in our ‘café’ area. On your Bike at Spurn Point Spurn Point, Kilnsea 53 Woldgate Trek Woldgate, Bridlington 53 A breath of fresh air at RSPB Bempton Cliffs Nature Reserve The Bempton Cliffs reserve is home to one of the UK’s top wildlife spectacles. Around half a million seabirds gather here between March and October to raise a family on towering chalk cliffs which overlook the . Take a stroll along the Cliff-top walk and see if you can spot something in the nature trail. Alternatively take a 4 mile circular walk from the RSPB visitor centre to Buckton taking in stunning view of Filey Bay and passing an old RAF Radio Station and the site of a Medieval village. Pop into the RSPB LET THE visitor centre on your return for a cake and cuppa priced at £3.50 during the Walking and Outdoor Festival Week. Location: Cliff Lane, Bridlington YO15 1JF Opening Times: Daily - 9:30am to 5pm FESTIVITIES BEGIN! Contact: [email protected] Tel: 01262 422212 Cost: Adult £5, Children £2.50 (first child free) Under 5s FREE

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WC On your Bike at Spurn Point Enjoy Spurn National Nature Reserve by bike. Cycle to nearby Kilnsea Wetland Nature Reserve and explore the local area. Included within our cycle hire is an activity pack, helmet and . The activity pack includes magnifying glass, binoculars, identification sheets and inspection tray. In addition to this entry to the lighthouse is also included (subject to opening times). Enjoy some well-earned refreshments in the discovery centre when you return. Start time: between 10am and 4pm SATURDAY 7TH SEPTEMBER Meeting Point: Available from the Spurn Discovery Centre Cost: £10 per Bike for a full day and £5 per bike for a half day. Booking Essential: Advisable to guarantee availability. Climb to dizzy heights in Flamborough! Contact: 01964 650144 or email [email protected] Flamborough Lighthouse Tours provide a great way to learn more about Additional Information: To reach the Spurn Lighthouse and Spurn Point you will need to this lighthouse located on Flamborough Head, about 1.2 miles from Flamborough on push bikes over a sandy section at Spurn that we call the wash-over, this takes around the B1259. Climb the 119 steps for stunning views over Bridlington and learn about the 15 minutes. Some identification will be required for bike hire purposes. history of the lighthouse built in 1806 and how it marks the Flamborough Headlands for vessels heading for the ports of Scarborough and Bridlington. Flamborough Lighthouse Sewerby Hall and Gardens Memory Walk is operated by East Riding of Yorkshire Council on behalf of Trinity House. – daily throughout the year Start Time: 12 noon to 4pm (tours every half hour. Last tour 3.30pm) Meeting Point: Flamborough Head Lighthouse, Lighthouse Road, Flamborough , Come along and enjoy the new Memory Walk, designed and constructed by Dementia Bridlington. YO15 1AR Cost: Adults £4.60, Family ticket (2 adults and up to 2 children) Friendly East Riding. Find Bill and Ben the Flower Pot Men along a specially constructed £14.50 Additional child £1.00 Child (up to 15 years) £3.60 Over 65/Concessions £3.60 nature walk which starts at the front of the house and finishes in the historic Walled Booking Essential: No just turn up on the day Contact: for further information: 01262 Garden. The walk includes a wildlife challenge to find and identify the many animals, 673769 Additional Information: Children are welcome, but they must be at least 1.1 insects and birds that live in Bill and Ben’s garden. In the Walled Garden you can metres in height. All visitors (including children) must be able to ascend and descend also enjoy a special display featuring all the characters from the The Wizard of Oz, the stairs unaided. Wear sensible footwear (not flip flops). celebrating the films 80th anniversary, designed and built by Worklink Sewerby. The memory walk aims to provide a sensory experience that can be enjoyed by young and old alike. People living with the dementia will be able to engage in a variety of activities WC Striding the Point at Spurn Nature Reserve designed to stimulate positive emotions through smell, touch, sight and hearing. Happy memories can be created in so many different ways. Join Yorkshire Wildlife Trust for a walk along Yorkshire’s very own ‘Land’s End’. We start our walk from the new Visitor Centre along to the tip of this tidal peninsula. Come and enjoy this Start Time: 9:30am to 5pm Cost: Adult: £7.90, Child £5.70 Booking Essential: No internationally important nature reserve with sensitive, diverse and wildlife-rich habitats. Contact: www.sewerbyhall.co.uk Start Time: 10:30am to 2:30pm Distance: 6.5 miles Meeting Point: Spurn Discovery Centre, Spurn Head, south of Kilnsea HU12 0UH What Was Here app Cost: £4 (members of YWT)/ £6 (non-members). Parking charges apply (£5 per car). Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Book online at www.ywt.org.uk or phone 01904 659570 Download the free ‘What Was Here app’ and compare the Sewerby Hall of now with Additional Information: Sorry no dogs. Please bring a packed lunch and drinks with you. times gone by. The Sewerby Hall and Gardens Heritage trail is included in the app and Dress for any kind of weather and wear stout footwear. features a gentle 1 mile walk around the estate. Follow the map and see photos from the 1930s to 1980s at various landmarks. The app has been developed by East Riding Archives. It is available to download free from the Apple app store or Google play. WC Nordic Walking An opportunity to ‘have a go’ at Walking with Poles. Join your instructor from Nordic Waking UK who will introduce you to this fat busting Scandinavian pastime. This is an one hour taster session. It’s great fun and burns 46% more calories than ordinary walking, and is great for neck shoulder and back problems as well as being easy on the FRIDAY 6TH SEPTEMBER knees and joints. Walking poles will be provided. Start Times: 10am to 11am and 11am to 12 noon Meeting Point: The Car Park entrance The Minster Way Trek to Beverley Golf Club, Anti Mill, Beverley HU17 8RG Cost: £2.50 Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Beverley Tourist Information Centre, The Treasure House, Champney Road, Join us for a five day trek along The Minster Way, a splendid 50 mile route that links the Beverley, HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 Email: [email protected] two famous medieval Minsters of York and Beverley, crossing farmland and the chalk Additional Information: Please use the car park at the Golf Club. WC and lite hills of the Yorkshire Wolds. Please see full page advert on page 64 for further details. refreshments are available from the Golf Club. No Dogs or Children under 18.

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Hornsea - history, pottery and the Burns family The Age of Change Join us for a History walk around the beautiful seaside town of Hornsea. Learn a little The area around North Bar reflects how the town has changed since the advent of the of its past including the famous Hornsea Pottery founded in 1949 and employing up to Georgian period. What are the changes that we can see in the life and times of this 700 people in it’s heyday. We will be covering a route that takes us to the old Railway fashionable area of Beverley? Take a stroll with Carli Black and find out who lived in station, the Mere, Hallgarth park and finishing up at Hornsea Museum - home to the some of the houses when they were still quite new and now so lovingly conserved and Burns family for almost 300 years, where you will be able to view over 2,000 pieces of up-dated. The lives and work of the residents give us a glimpse of life during a time of iconic Hornsea Pottery as well as visiting six buildings that include rooms depicting the great change and advancement - and so different from our own. Victorian age and a model of the old Hornsea Railway. Start Time: 5:30pm to 7:30pm Start Time: 10:30am to 1pm approximately Meeting Point: Outside St Mary’s Church Cost: Free Meeting Point: Trans Pennine Route Marker on the seafront (on the corner of South Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Beverley Tourist Information Centre, Promenade and Sands Lane). HU18 1PZ. Cost: Free Booking Essential: Yes The Treasure House, Champney Road, Beverley, HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 Contact: Beverley Tourist Information Centre, The Treasure House, Champney Road, Email: [email protected] Beverley, HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 Email: [email protected] Additional Information: This event includes free entry to Hornsea Museum. Children welcome. Beverley and America – a special relationship This walk with Barbara English explores the little-known story of the Americans who WC Kelsey Gardens Outdoor Activities came to live in Beverley after they were forced to leave their homes for supporting George III instead of George Washington. Rich and powerful families had their New Kelsey Gardens is an area of natural parkland consisting of two lakes and woodland York and other properties confiscated. England welcomed them, and paid them situated near the village of Burstwick. Facilities include fishing, canoeing, paddleboard, compensation. Come and see where they lived, and find out more about their amazing Kayak, diving, open water swimming, walking and birdwatching. During the Walking and connections around the world. Outdoor festival first weekend (Saturday and Sunday). Kelsey will be reducing the cost Start Time: 2pm to 4pm of their Kayaks and canoes by 50% for you to have a go at this great outdoor activity. Meeting Point: Highgate Porch, Beverley Minster Cost: Free Fun for all ages. Refreshments, hot and cold snacks available on site. Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Beverley Tourist Information Centre, Start Time: 10am last hire at 4pm The Treasure House, Champney Road, Beverley, HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 Meeting Point: Kesley Gardens, Hariff Lane, Burswick. HU12 9HU Email: [email protected] Cost: £5.00 per Kayaks (usual price £10) Booking Essential: No just turn up on the day Contact: Ian on 07973 909026, www.kelseygardens.org.uk, @kelseylakesandgardens Additional Information: Suitable clothing that dries quickly – no jeans – waterproof The Vale of Snaith Ramble jacket recommended, bring a towel and change of clothes – buoyancy aids provided. An exciting walk, alongside the meandering , from the vibrant town of Snaith to the enchanting village of Rawcliffe, with its picturesque village green. The return Darker Side of Georgian Beverley journey will pass through the delightful Sugar Mill Ponds Nature Reserve, follow the Aire & Calder canal and then traverse the wide-open countryside, to join The Trans-Pennine Not everything in Georgian Beverley was wonderful. Hear about the prison, the Trail. On the trail, in its 30th anniversary year, you will see the site of the Manor House, workhouse, and the awful roads. Entertainment was different too – from bull baiting built for King Edward II in the 14th century and learn about Cowick’s impressive medieval to cock fights, together with race meetings, where spectators often joined in! Men pottery industry. and women were still ducked, children went bare foot and servants scolded. There was Start Time: 10am to finish at 2pm Distance: 10 Miles no piped water, sewage overflowed into the streets and lots, lots more! See into the Meeting Point: Snaith Station Free Car Park, George Street, Snaith. DN14 9HY darkness with Colin Bradshaw. Cost: Free Booking Essential: Yes Start Time: 10am to 12noon Contact: Keith Greenwood, Tel: (01405) 861167, Email: [email protected] Meeting Point: Norwood House, down Norwood. Cost: Free Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Beverley Tourist Information Centre, The Treasure House, Champney Road, Beverley, HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 Email: [email protected]

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WC A sailing on the Humber Keel and Sloop WC On your Bike at Spurn Point New to the festival in 2019 - Join the crew of the Humber Keel ‘Comrade’ or the Humber Enjoy Spurn National Nature Reserve by bike. Cycle to nearby Kilnsea Wetland Nature Sloop ‘Amy Howson’ for a sailing on the River Humber. These trading vessels were used Reserve and explore the local area. Included within our cycle hire is an activity pack, to transport goods on the Humber in the early 20th century, and continue to be sailed helmet and lock. The activity pack includes magnifying glass, binoculars, identification today by the preservation society using traditional methods. These large vessels are up sheets and inspection tray. In addition to this entry to the lighthouse is also included to 74 ft in length with a width of 17 ft and were influenced by the 17th century Dutch (subject to opening times). Enjoy some well-earned refreshments in the discovery centre gaff rigged trading vessels. up on your return. Start Time: 12noon to 4pm (4 to 5 hours sailing) Start Time: Between 10am and 4pm Meeting Point: Available from the Spurn Meeting Point: Hull Marina Cost: £25 per person Discovery Centre Cost: £10 per Bike for a full day and £5 per bike for a half day. Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Keith Sivertsen Tel (01482) 782917 or at email Booking Essential: Advisable to guarantee availability [email protected]. Contact: 01964 650144 or email [email protected] Additional Information: Provision for hot drinks and food heating on board as well as Additional Information: To reach the Spurn Lighthouse and Spurn Point you will need to toilet facilities. push bikes over a sandy section at Spurn that we call the wash-over, this takes around 15 minutes. Some identification will be required for bike hire purposes. Sewerby Park Run WC Sewerby Park Run is a FREE 5k timed run that takes place every Saturday morning at See a...Kingfisher 9am. Parkrun is a community event run by volunteers aimed at encouraging people to Come along to Tophill Low nature reserve and join the warden as we search our keep fit, healthy and active. Runners of all abilities are welcome. waterways and pools to try and spot one of the UK’s most charismatic birds. Sightings Start Time: Leaving at 9:00am Meeting Point: Sewerby Hall and Gardens, Church aren’t guaranteed, but we’ll be in the best place at the best time to stand a good Lane, Sewerby.YO15 1EA Cost: Free Booking Essential: No just turn up with your chance of seeing one. There is plenty of other wildlife to enjoy on the way. running shoes on! Contact: www.parkrun.org.uk/sewerby Start Time: 2:00pm to finish at 4:00pm Additional Information: Participants receive 25% discount on selected drinks and Meeting Point: Tophill Low Nature Reserve, YO25 9RH OS Grid Reference: TA 073 486 refreshments between 9am and 10am from the Clock Tower Café. Cost: Event free with standard admission (£3.50 adults, £1.80 concessions) Booking Essential: Yes, book in advance – numbers limited. Contact: Ring the reserve on Tel: (01377) 270690 WC Woldgate Trek Additional Information: No Dogs, Children must be accompanied with an Adult Have a go at Horse Riding and join Woldgate Trekking Centre for a one hour trek across beautiful countryside. No experience or equipment needed. Start Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm, 2:30pm – 3:30pm, 4:00pm – 5:00pm. Young riders club 9.15am to 12.15am - £20 for morning. trek or lesson included. Meeting Point: Woldgate Trekking Centre Cost: £18 per hour – Family of 4 or more £16 per hour, lessons £20 per hour. (CASH ONLY) Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Woldgate on Tel: (01262) 673086 Additional Information: Arrive 30 minutes before your departure choice. 15 stone weight limit, parental guidance required for the very young. Disabled welcome.

Beverley Breeze Ladies Cycle ride Would you like to get out on your bike more but don’t know where to start? Breeze ladies are here to help! No need for fancy bikes and clothing. Join us for an easy going ride, along the Westwood to and onto with a coffee stop at Eliza’s. The route is along cycle paths and quiet roads. There is a steady uphill incline to Walkington. Start Time: 10am Distance: 10 Miles Meeting Point: East Riding Leisure Beverley, Flemingate, Beverley, HU17 0LT Cost: Free Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Register on the ‘Lets Ride’ website www.letsride.co.uk (search Beverley). For further information please contact: Brenda Cartwright [email protected] Additional Information: Please make sure your bike is in a roadworthy condition, wear a cycle helmet and bring a spare inner tube and tools in case of a puncture!

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Kilnwick Percy Hall – History, Meditation and Parkland New for 2019. Visit the Historic Kilnwick Percy Hall, a stunning Grade 2* listed building set within 47 acres of grounds with woodland walks, parkland and a lake - located just outside Pocklington. The Hall has been the home to Madhyamaka Kadampa Meditation Centre for 30 years and is a relaxing place of peace and tranquillity to rest and reflect. SUNDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER Our guide will take us on a history tour of the Georgian Hall and learn about the many people who have occupied it. Following the tour there will be an optional 15 minute meditation taster session to promote mental wellbeing. Why not finish off with lunch Climb to dizzy heights in Flamborough! in the World Peace Café and have a browse around the gift shop. You can enjoy the Flamborough Lighthouse Tours provide a great way to learn more about this lighthouse beautiful grounds from dawn to dusk at your leisure. Free Parking. located on Flamborough Head, about 1.2 miles from Flamborough on the B1259. Climb Start Time: 11am tour, 12:15 optional meditation session. the 119 steps for stunning views over Bridlington and learn about the history of the Meeting Point: Inside the Main Hall Door at the front of House. Madhymaka Kadampa lighthouse build in 1806 and how it marks the Flamborough Headlands for vessels Meditation Centre, Kilnwick Percy Hall, Pocklington. York. YO42 1UF Cost: £2.50 heading for the ports of Scarborough and Bridlington. Flamborough Lighthouse is Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Beverley Tourist Information Centre, operated by East Riding of Yorkshire Council on behalf of Trinity House. The Treasure House, Champney Road, Beverley, HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 Start Time: 12 noon to 4pm (tours every half hour. Last tour 3.30pm) Email: [email protected] Additional Information: Dogs are welcome on a Meeting Point: Flamborough Head Lighthouse, Lighthouse Road, Flamborough , lead all year round in the grounds and in the Doggy Lodge to eat – but not in the Hall. Bridlington. YO15 1AR Cost: Adults £4.60, Family ticket (2 adults and up to 2 children) There is wheelchair access on the ground floor and part of the grounds. £14.50 Additional child £1.00 Child (up to 15 years) £3.60 Over 65/Concessions £3.60 Booking Essential: No just turn up on the day Contact: For further information: 01262 673769 Additional Information: Children are welcome, but they must be at least 1.1 Hornsea - history, pottery and the Burns family metres in height. All visitors (including children) must be able to ascend and descend Join us for a History walk around the beautiful seaside town of Hornsea. Learn a little the stairs unaided. Wear sensible footwear (not flip flops). of its past including the famous Hornsea Pottery founded in 1949 and employing up to 700 people in it’s heyday. We will be covering a route that takes us to the old Railway station, the Mere, Hallgarth park and finishing up at Hornsea Museum - home to the WC A sailing on the Humber Keel and Sloop Burns family for almost 300 years, where you will be able to view over 2,000 pieces of New to the festival in 2019 - Join the crew of the Humber Keel ‘Comrade’ or the Humber Sloop iconic Hornsea Pottery as well as visiting six buildings that include rooms depicting the ‘Amy Howson’ for a sailing on the River Humber. These trading vessels were used to transport Victorian age and a model of the old Hornsea Railway. goods on the Humber in the early 20th century, and continue to be sailed today by the Start Time: 10:30am to 1pm approximately Meeting Point: Trans Pennine Route Marker preservation society using traditional methods. These large vessels are up to 74 ft in length on the seafront (on the corner of South Promenade and Sands Lane). HU18 1PZ. with a width of 17 ft and were influenced by the 17th century Dutch gaff rigged trading vessels. Cost: Free Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Beverley Tourist Information Centre, Start Time: 12noon to 4pm (4 to 5 hours sailing) Meeting Point: Hull Marina The Treasure House, Champney Road, Beverley, HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 Cost: £25 per person Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Keith Sivertsen Tel (01482) Email: [email protected] Additional Information: This event includes free 782917 or at email [email protected]. Additional Information: Provision for entry to Hornsea Museum. Children welcome. hot drinks and food heating on board as well as toilet facilities. Walk along 19C Flemingate A Walk of Small Things Flemingate is one of the oldest and most significant streets in Beverley and has seen Lamp posts, kerb stones, decorated foot scrapers, mysterious 200 year old stone many changes as the years have gone by. Our walk (more a slow amble) begins at the inscriptions - Beverley has many small things from the past, some now impossible to Minster and extends as far as the Beckside area. We examine the fabric of Victorian understand. This gentle walk, with Barbara English, around the town centre is designed Flemingate and the lives of the people who lived along it in the middle of the 19C. to show you things that you may walk past every day, and never ‘see’. All are welcome, Be prepared for surprises. children and well-behaved dogs too. The children often notice things we don’t…and Start Time: 10am to 12noon Meeting Point: Minster Yard North. Cost: Free have some great explanations too. Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Beverley Tourist Information Centre, Start Time: 3:30pm to 4:45pm Meeting Point: Wednesday Market near the Beverley The Treasure House, Champney Road, Beverley, HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 Town Council notice board. Cost: Free Booking Essential: Yes Email: [email protected] Contact: Beverley Tourist Information Centre, The Treasure House, Champney Road, Beverley, HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 Email: [email protected]

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Wykehykers Walking Club trip to Hutton-le-Hole A stroll around Snaith & Cowick We are a friendly long-established rambling group with members from Hull and outer A fully inclusive guided walk for everyone, that will enable you to learn about the history villages. We enjoy Sunday outings by coach once a fortnight and visit scenic/interesting and heritage of The Gateway to The East Riding of Yorkshire, as well as enjoying a very areas of Yorkshire and beyond. We invite you join us for a walk around the picturesque pleasant stroll. Sights on the walk will include three churches and three former stately Hutton-Le-Hole. Upon arrival there will be two walks on offer a 5 mile and a 9 mile. homes, the grandest of which is the magnificent Cowick Hall. Start Time and Meeting Point: Feresway (near Hull Truck) at 8:30am, or Beverley Start Time: 10am to finish at 12 noon Distance: 4 Miles (Norwood) at 9am. Cost: Free Booking Essential: Yes Meeting Point: Snaith Station Free Car Park, George Street, Snaith. DN14 9HY Contact: Keith Sivertsen Tel (01482) 850997 or at email [email protected]. Cost: Free Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Keith Greenwood, Tel: (01405) 861167, Email: [email protected]

Picturesque Pocklington circular walk Wassand Estate wander with views of Hornsea Mere Leaving Pocklington, this circular walk takes us on a route across a golf course to the pretty village of Millington. Part of the route is on the Yorkshire Wolds Way with A picturesque walk from through the grassy pastures of the Wassand attractive landscape vistas. We also pass the enchanting St Ethelburgas’s Church set Hall Estate taking in views across Hornsea Mere before returning via the old railway line below the road in a lovely setting with trees behind and overlooking a small valley with and quiet lanes. We take a lunch break at the tiny church of St Giles at Goxhill before a large pond. retracing our steps through the estate back to our start point in Sigglesthorne. Start Time: 10am Distance: 10 Miles Meeting Point: Pocklington Bus Station (YO42 Start Time: 10am to 2:30pm Distance: 8 Miles 2AE) Cost: Free Booking Essential: No just turn up on the day. Meeting Point: Main Street, Sigglesthorne Cost: Free Booking Essential: Yes Additional Information: Please bring a packed lunch and plenty to drink Contact: Jackie Small on 07544953585 or E: [email protected] to book yourself on this walk. Additional Information: Suitable footwear as paths can be muddy if wet, packed lunch required. WC On your Bike at Spurn Point Enjoy Spurn National Nature Reserve by bike. Cycle to nearby Kilnsea Wetland Nature A Hike from Hotham Reserve and explore the local area. Included within our cycle hire is an activity pack, helmet and lock. The activity pack includes magnifying glass, binoculars, identification Join us for a 7 mile circular walk. The route should be relatively flat except for one short sheets and inspection tray. In addition to this entry to the lighthouse is also included steep climb at South Cliff. The walk is along bridleways, paths, open access land and (subject to opening times). Enjoy some well-earned refreshments in the discovery centre minor roads- Hotham village to Bunny Hill, then to Hotham Carr, South Cliff and the up on your return. edge of Houghton Woods before returning via tracks to Hotham village. In September Start Time: Between 10am and 4pm the heathland should be purple with heather. Meeting Point: Available from the Spurn Discovery Centre Start Times: 10am to 1:30pm Distance: 7 Miles Cost: £10 per Bike for a full day and £5 per bike for a half day Meeting Point: Hotham War Memorial, Hotham YO43 4UW (SE 894 344) Booking Essential: Advisable to guarantee availability Cost: Free Booking Essential: No, just turn up on the day Contact: 01964 650144 or email [email protected] Additional Information: Bring a pack up and drink for lunch. Additional Information: To reach the Spurn Lighthouse and Spurn Point you will need to push bikes over a sandy section at Spurn that we call the wash-over, this takes around 15 minutes. Some identification will be required for bike hire purposes.

WC Woldgate Trek Have a go at Horse Riding and join Woldgate Trekking Centre for a one hour trek across beautiful countryside. No experience or equipment needed. Start Times: 1:00pm – 2:00pm, 2:30pm – 3:30pm, 4:00pm – 5:00pm. Young riders club 9.15am to 12.15am - £20 for morning. trek or lesson included. Meeting Point: Woldgate Trekking Centre Cost: £18 per hour – Family of 4 or more £16 per hour, lessons £20 per hour. (CASH ONLY) Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Woldgate on Tel: (01262) 673086 Additional Information: Arrive 30 minutes before your departure choice. 15 stone weight limit, parental guidance required for the very young. Disabled welcome.

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Windows on Beverley Windows on Beverley. Join Colin Bradshaw for a very short walk within and around St Mary’s church. Churches are and always have been extensively linked to the wider community. For example the “gud wyffes” of Beverley helped raise the money to rebuild the tower when it collapsed in 1520. You will be amazed by some of the other links ranging from fire prevention and the slave trade to a chocolate maker and the theatre! MONDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER You may wish to make a donation to the work of St Mary’s. Start Time: 6pm to7pm Meeting Point: Entrance to St. Marys on Hengate Cost: Free Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Beverley Tourist Information Centre, WC Woldgate Trek The Treasure House, Champney Road, Beverley, HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 Have a go at Horse Riding and join Woldgate Trekking Centre for a one hour trek across Email: [email protected] beautiful countryside. No experience or equipment needed. Start Time: 10am – 11am, 11.30am – 12.30am, 1pm – 2pm, 2.30pm – 3.30pm, 4pm – 5pm Green Plaques Walk. History at eye-level, I bet you Meeting Point: Woldgate Trekking Centre Cost: £18 per hour – Family of 4 or more £16 per hour, lessons £20 per hour. (CASH ONLY) haven’t seen it! Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Woldgate on Tel: (01262) 673086 The Civic Society has placed a number of information plaques on the walls of buildings in Additional Information: Arrive 30 minutes before your departure choice. 15 stone weight Beverley. Have you noticed them? If not, this is your chance to be taken on a guided walk limit, parental guidance required for the very young. Disabled welcome. that seeks to find the plaques and explain why they are there. You will be amazed and at times horrified by the picture they paint of Beverley! Carli Black will be your guide. Start Time: 2pm to 4pm Meeting Point: Outside the Beverley Arms Hotel Cost: Free WC Walking and Wine at Little Wold Vineyard Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Beverley Tourist Information Centre, Established in 2012, Little Wold Vineyard in the Yorkshire Wolds has over 2000 vines of The Treasure House, Champney Road, Beverley, HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 4 different white grape varieties and 2 red. There first crop being harvested in 2016. Join Email: [email protected] Henry the owner for a tour of the vineyard, learn about the farms history, the variety of grapes, taste the wine and enjoy the views. A Walk along Hessle Foreshore taking in the Country Park Start Time: 2:00pm to finish at 3:00pm approximately Meeting Point: Little Wold Vineyard, South Cave. Direction’s provided when booking or Join the Ramblers for a walk around the Hessle area. This is a largely an Urban walk visit www.littlewoldvineyard.co.uk Cost: £7.50 taking in the foreshore and country park. The Country Park is a 48 acre wood with open Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Beverley Tourist Information Centre, meadows and wildlife ponds. The distinctive chalk cliffs which surround the park on three The Treasure House, Champney Road, Beverley, HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 sides give rise to the park’s local name of Little Switzerland. The walk will be generally flat Email: [email protected] with a steep climb of steps in the Country Park section. Additional Information: You will have the opportunity to buy wine and gifts at the Start Time: 1pm Distance: 6 Miles Vineyard. Wear sensible shoes for the terrain Meeting Point: Hessle Foreshore Car Park HU13 0HG Cost: Free Booking Essential: No Contact: Peter Godfrey & Peter Harrison/07952 134860 or 07496 199177 if you have any queries about this walk. Additional Information: Please bring a Fortune and Misforture drink and snacks. Join Ann Scruton for a stroll around historic Beverley. The growth and decline of the town through the ages is reflected in the lives of its people. From power to execution, poverty to influence, riches to disgrace, lives were dramatically changed and fine Sewerby Evergreens: Inside Out buildings threatened with destruction. This session will focus on the grounds and the gardens. There will be opportunity to Start Time: 10am to 12noon explore the grounds through guided walks and tours, as well as talks and information Meeting Point: Outside the Treasure House, Champney Road Cost: Free sessions about plants, wildlife and natural history as well as the Zoo. Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Beverley Tourist Information Centre, Start Time: 1:30pm to 3pm Meeting Point: Outside the Clock Tower The Treasure House, Champney Road, Beverley, HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 Cost: Adult: £7.90, Child £5.70 Booking Essential: Yes Email: [email protected] Contact: www.sewerbyhall.co.uk/what-on (Search all/September 2019)

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Sewerby Squirrels – Beach Explorers Sewerby Squirrels are weekly term-time sessions, especially designed for under 5s and their grownups. Each session has books to read, a sensory area and a themed activity linking with the museum displays, gardens or the beach, so there’s always something different to enjoy! This week’s activity is Beach Explorers! Enjoy sand play, beach themed toys and dressing up. Start Time: 10am to 11:30am Meeting Point: Sewerby Hall and Gardens, Church Lane, Sewerby.YO15 1EA Cost: Included in normal admission price: Adult £7.90, Child £5.70 TH Booking Essential: No just turn up on the day Contact: www.sewerbyhall.co.uk/what- TUESDAY 10 SEPTEMBER on Tel: 01262 673769 Additional Information: Enjoyable messy play – so come prepared with a change of clothes. WC Burton Constable Hall & Grounds ‘behind the scenes’ tour WC Macmillan Cancer Evening Walk Join one of Burton Constables expert guides for a ‘behind the scenes’ tour of the Hall. Join us for a 1 hour guided evening walk in support of Macmillan Cancer Support. Discover the cellars, attics, rooftops and everything else in between! Explore the rest of Start Time: 6:30pm to 7:30pm Meeting Point: East Riding Leisure Beverley, Flemingate, the House at your leisure with thirty rooms filled with fine furniture, paintings, sculptures Beverley. HU17 0LT Cost: Free Booking Essential: No, just turn up 15 minutes before the and country-house paraphernalia. The festival ticket also gives you access to 330 acres walk starts. Contact: For further information about the scheme - Laura Hutchinson, of stunning historic grade II listed parkland boasting the best documented example of a Healthy Lifestyles Development Officer. Tel: (01482) 392527 landscape worked by Lancelot ‘capability’ Brown. Enjoy one of three walks, one of which E: [email protected] takes you to the Lake with Lancelot’s picturesque bridge spanning over it. Why not make a day of it and have lunch or afternoon tea. The Grounds, Stable and WC Walking for Health – Paull Stable Kitchen are open from 10am – 5pm. Hall opens at 12noon with least admission at 4pm. Join one of our East Riding Council walking team for this 30 minute walk. Walking is almost perfect exercise, requires no expense and can be done anywhere at any time. Start Time: 1:30pm prompt Meeting Point: In the Great Hall Cost: £7.50 to include the This walk is aimed at anyone who has an interest in walking or wants to introduce exercise tour and access to the House and Grounds for the day into their daily routine as part of rehabilitation from illness, injury or to get fit. Walking for Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Beverley Tourist Information Centre, Health can also be a great place to meet new people from your local area. The Treasure House, Champney Road, Beverley. HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 Email: [email protected] Additional Information: Dogs welcome in the Start Time: 10:30am to 11am Meeting Point: St Andrews Church, Road, grounds and Doggy Dining Room. Assistance Dogs only in the Hall. Please bring your Paull. HU12 8AX Cost: Free Booking Essential: No, just turn up 15 minutes before the proof of purchase along with you to hand in at the admissions desk. walk starts. Contact: For further information about the scheme - Laura Hutchinson, Healthy Lifestyles Development Officer. Tel: (01482) 392527 E: laura.hutchinson@ eastriding.gov.uk Additional Information: Appropriate clothing, footwear and a bottle of water. Please check on the number above if a Dog is allowed on this walk! Doing good works ”Strolling from the Friary to the old Westwood Hospital we will consider how the poor, Beverley Ghost Walk the old, the sick and the disadvantaged of Beverley were helped before the coming of the Welfare State. We will look at those local individuals who helped them- doing good Prepare to be scared. A twilight visit to the spooky bits of Beverley with chilling tales works-and their motivations in doing so.” drawn from the town’s history. Start Time: 2pm to 4pm Meeting Point: Beverley Minster – steps facing Highgate Start Time: 7pm to 9pm Meeting Point: Outside the Royal Standard, North Bar Within Cost: Free Booking Essential: Yes Cost: £4 per person Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Beverley Tourist Information Centre, Contact: Beverley Tourist Information Centre, The Treasure House, Champney Road, The Treasure House, Champney Road, Beverley, HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 Beverley, HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Additional Information: Not suitable for Children

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WC Wake up and smell the Lavender! Decoding Highgate Surrounded by mature woodland, on the edge of the picturesque Yorkshire Wolds, Wolds Our walk from Wednesday Market to Beverley Minster focuses your attention on the Way lavender is a wonderful and relaxing place to visit. The family run 12 acre site is currently facades of Highgate’s buildings. It’s an important historic street. We look around planted with over five acres of Lavender ranging from rich hues of purple to the purest it, sense its place in history from The Middle Ages up to the present day. There are white. Learn about the amazing transformation of the site from a derelict Piggery to the archaeological discoveries and architectural details to see and their meanings to learn current scented Lavender fields and a little of the distillation process that takes place about. There are the ghosts of disappeared buildings and there are stories about the throughout August. The oils (renowned for their relaxing properties) are used within their people - some famous, some not so - who have lived, worked and settled in this street. range of products available in the gift shop. Why not finish off at the Lavender tearooms Join Anne Perret as she helps you to decode it all! and sample homemade lavender scones which have been receiving rave reviews! Start Time: 2pm to 3:30pm Start Time: 10:30am to 12noon Meeting Point: Wolds Way Lavender, Wintringham, Meeting Point: Wednesday Market, outside Peck’s Fish Shop Malton, North Yorkshire. YO17 8HW Cost: £3.50 Cost: Free Booking Essential: Yes Booking Essential: Yes including your scone preferences – Lavender, Fruit or Cheese! Contact: Beverley Tourist Information Centre, The Treasure House, Champney Road, Contact: Beverley Tourist Information Centre, The Treasure House, Champney Road, Beverley, HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 Email: [email protected] Beverley. HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 Email: [email protected]

WC Quiet Gardens of Beverley The Stewarts of Burnby Hall Gardens 10 different gardens are visited, each with its own history. Perhaps they exist through Pocklington’s unique Gardens have justifiably been called “A Jewel in Yorkshire’s Crown” the benevolence of a philanthropist, a church, the Festival of Britain or the Quiet Garden but have you ever wondered how they came to be here in the first place? If so, why not Movement. Their various histories involve brawling churchwardens, a house fire, an come along and enjoy a guided walking tour around them accompanied by Peter Rogers, earthquake, a gas chamber, the Civil War and a ghost. Val Wise would like to show you Assistant Manager at Burnby Hall Gardens. You’ll hear about how the Gardens came the quiet gardens that so many people ignore or know nothing about. to be created by Major Percy Stewart and his wife Katharine in the early 1900’s, and Start Time: 10am to 12noon the recent work that has been completed to safeguard their legacy as part of a £664k Meeting Point: The Beverley Library Gardens Heritage Lottery funded restoration programme. The tour will finish with a look in The Cost: Free Booking Essential: Yes Stewart Museum giving you the change to stop in the Lilypad café for refreshments. Contact: Beverley Tourist Information Centre, The Treasure House, Champney Road, Start Time: 11am to 12 noon Meeting Point: Green Bandstand just outside the Visitor Beverley, HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 Email: [email protected] Centre Cost: £3.50 Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Beverley Tourist Information Centre, The Treasure House, Champney Road, Beverley, HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 Email: [email protected] Additional Information: Sorry no Dogs WC Larkin about Beverley Philip Larkin was a frequent visitor to Beverley during the 30 years in which he was librarian at the University of Hull. The town figures strongly in his letters to a number WC Secrets of Sewerby – an outdoor History Tour of correspondents. It is also a place that held a particular significance in terms of his Sewerby Hall and Gardens is one of the gems of the and is renowned for love life. Drawing on extracts from Larkin’s writing as an illustrative guide. Philip Pullen, its beautiful grounds and views. But, in fact, there has been human activity at Sewerby media and publicity officer for the Philip Larkin Society will be your guide. for thousands of years, long before the hall was built or the gardens laid out. This walk, Start Time: 10am to 12noon led by Robert Chester the hall’s education officer, is an opportunity to find out a little Meeting Point: Outside the Beverley Arms Hotel, North Bar Within more about this rich history and explore the hall and grounds in the context of its wider Cost: Free Booking Essential: Yes historical and archaeological landscape. There will also be a chance to look at some Contact: Beverley Tourist Information Centre, The Treasure House, Champney Road, relevant items from the museum handling collection. The tour will last for about an Beverley, HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 Email: [email protected] hour and a half, and will take the form of a gentle stroll around the grounds that will finish back in front of the Hall. The tour will be suitable for anyone, including those with mobility issues, and will stick to paths or lawns with plenty of opportunity to stop and WC Walking for Health – Sewerby Hall and Gardens rest along the way. Why not finish with lunch in the Clock Tower Café! Walking is a great way to keep fit, explore what’s on your doorstep and Start Time: 10:30am to 12noon Meeting Point: The Welcome Centre, Sewerby Hall and make new friends. Come and join one of our free and friendly short walks (1 hour). Gardens Church Lane, Sewerby. YO15 1EA Cost: £3.50 Everyone is welcome. Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Beverley Tourist Information Centre, The Treasure House, Champney Road, Beverley, HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 Start Time: 10:30am to 11:30am Meeting Point: Outside the Clock Tower Email: [email protected] Additional Information: There will be some gentle Cost: Adult: £7.11, Child £5.13 Booking Essential: Yes slopes and people are advised to wear appropriate shoes and outdoor clothing. Your Contact: www.sewerbyhall.co.uk/what-on (Search all/September 2019) entrance tickets allows you full day access to the Hall and Gardens.

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WC Walking for Health – Driffield WC Walking for Health – South Cave Join one of our East Riding Council walking team for this 2 hour walk around Join one of our East Riding Council walking team for this 1.5 hour walk. Walking is almost and the adjoining countryside. Walking is almost perfect exercise, perfect exercise, requires no expense and can be done anywhere at any time. This walk is requires no expense and can be done anywhere at any time. This walk is aimed at aimed at anyone who has an interest in walking or wants to introduce exercise into their anyone who has an interest in walking or wants to introduce exercise into their daily daily routine as part of rehabilitation from illness, injury or to get fit. Walking for Health routine as part of rehabilitation from illness, injury or to get fit. Walking for Health can can also be a great place to meet new people from your local area. also be a great place to meet new people from your local area. Start Time: 10am to 11:30am Start Time: 10:30am to 12:30pm Meeting Point: East Riding Leisure South Cave, Church Street, South Cave. HU15 2EP Meeting Point: Meet at the Village Green in Cranswick Cost: Free Booking Essential: No, just turn up 15 minutes before the walk starts Cost: Free Booking Essential: No, just turn up 15 minutes before the walk starts Contact: For further information about the scheme - Laura Hutchinson, Contact: For further information about the scheme - Healthy Lifestyles Development Officer. Tel: (01482) 392527 Laura Hutchinson, Healthy Lifestyles Development Officer. Tel: (01482) 392527 E: [email protected] Additional Information: Appropriate clothing, E: [email protected] Additional Information: Appropriate clothing, footwear and a bottle of water. Please check on the number above if a Dog is allowed footwear and a bottle of water. Please check on the number above if a Dog is allowed on this walk! on this walk!

WC Striding through Driffield WC Walking for Health – Hessle Join the Driffield Striders for their weekly Tuesday evening walk. The striders welcome Join one of our East Riding Council walking team for this 1 hour walk around people of all levels of fitness to join what is a social relaxed group full of people who the Hessle area. Walking is almost perfect exercise, requires no expense and can be enjoy walking. The group walk every Tuesday evening throughout the year and also done anywhere at any time. This walk is aimed at anyone who has an interest in walking organise some longer daytime Sunday walks. A great way to meet new likeminded or wants to introduce exercise into their daily routine as part of rehabilitation from people in your local area. illness, injury or to get fit. Walking for Health can also be a great place to meet new Start Time: 6:15pm for 60 to 90 minutes. people from your local area. Meeting Point: Wolds Way to Health gym, Cramwell Road, Driffield. YO25 6UH Start Time: 10am to 11am Cost: Free Booking Essential: No need to book - just turn up on the evening. Meeting Point: Hessle Community Centre, Old School House, The Hourne, Hessle. Contact: Gaye on 07799805532 E: [email protected] www.driffieldstriders.co.uk HU13 9LJ Cost: Free Booking Essential: No, just turn up 15 minutes before the walk starts Contact: For further information about the scheme - Laura Hutchinson, Healthy Lifestyles Development Officer. Tel: (01482) 392527 E: [email protected] Additional Information: Appropriate clothing, footwear and a bottle of water. Please check on the number above if a Dog is allowed on this walk! QUALITY ACCOMMODATION

The Yorkshire Wolds is the perfect WC Walking for Health – Sewerby place to escape, refresh your senses Join one of our East Riding Council walking team for this 1 hour walk. Walking is almost perfect exercise, requires no expense and can be done anywhere at any time. This walk is and discover the great outdoors. aimed at anyone who has an interest in walking or wants to introduce exercise into their With so much to see and do, why daily routine as part of rehabilitation from illness, injury or to get fit. Walking for Health not extend your stay by choosing can also be a great place to meet new people from your local area. from an excellent selection of quality Start Time: 10:30am to 11:30am accommodation including luxury Meeting Point: Clock Tower Café, Sewerby Hall and Gardens, Church Lane, Sewerby, bed and breakfast establishments, Bridlington. YO15 1EA Cost: Free Booking Essential: No, just turn up 15 minutes before the walk starts Contact: For further information about the scheme - Laura Hutchinson, beautiful country cottages and Healthy Lifestyles Development Officer. Tel: (01482) 392527 farmhouses to caravan and campsites E: [email protected] Additional Information: Appropriate clothing, in stunning rural locations. footwear and a bottle of water. Please check on the number above if a Dog is allowed on this walk! Visit: theyorkshirewolds.com

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WC Boots and Beer Walk This ever popular event returns again, following the classic route along dry valleys Camp Dale, Raven Dale, Lang Dale and North Dale. It also includes a short stretch of the Yorkshire Wolds Way National Trail. The day caps off with the chance to sample a couple of the award winning Wold Top beers at the brewery at Hunmanby Grange. This comes with a savoury buffet to help round off the experience. Quality soft drinks are

THE OFFICIAL ALE available for non-drinkers. Wold Top Brewery are supporters of the Yorkshire Wolds Way OF THE YORKSHIRE WOLDS WAY A sparkling crisp ale with an earthy spiciness and honeyed marmalade overtones. The perfect finish to a ride through Yorkshire’s wolds, moors and dales. This completely British beer is brewed with predominantly our own home grown barley, our own pure chalk filtered water and UK grown TH Maize/Maïs/Mais, Goldings and First Gold hops. and they brew the official Wolds Way ale. Water/Eau/Acqua, Barley Malt/Orge/Orzo, INGREDIENTS: Hops/Houblon/Luppolo and Yeast/Levure/ Lievito di Birra. Starköl, Innehåller kornmalt. Produit du Royaume-Uni. WEDNESDAY 11 SEPTEMBER Sisältää Ohramallasta. Beer/Bière/Birra alc. 4.0% vol. Product of the UK,

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Best Before End: See Neck Store Cool OS Grid Reference: TA 072 755 Meeting Point: Wold Top Brewery, Humnanby Grange. Imported into Italy by Cuzziol S.p.A Wold Top Brewery, Hunmanby Grange, Wold Newton, Kilnwick Percy Hall – History, Meditation and Parkland YO25 3HS Cost: £7.50 to include two half pint samples and a savoury buffet Driffield. YO25 3HS www.woldtopbrewery.co.uk 500ml alc.4% vol Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Beverley Tourist Information Centre, Old Illustration New for 2019. Visit the Historic Kilnwick Percy Hall, a stunning Grade 2* listed building Client: Wold Top Client: Wold Top Client ref: Wolds Way Clip Client ref: Wolds Way Label Job No: - Job No: - Date: 29/1/16 Date: 29/1/16 Version: 1 Carrot Juice Version: 1 Carrot Juice Tel: +44 (0) 1943 468 553 Tel: +44 (0) 1943 468 553

Supplier: - 7744 C PANTONE 168 C PANTONE Supplier: - 7744 C PANTONE 168 C PANTONE set within 47 acres of grounds with woodland walks, parkland and a lake - located just The Treasure House, Champney Road, Beverley, HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 www.carrotjuicecreative.com www.carrotjuicecreative.com outside Pocklington. The Hall has been the home to Madhyamaka Kadampa Meditation Email: [email protected] Additional Information: No Children Centre for 30 years and is a relaxing place of peace and tranquillity to rest and reflect. Our guide will take us on a history tour of the Georgian Hall and learn about the many people who have occupied it. Following the tour there will be an optional 15 minute WC Sewerby Hall, Costumed Volunteer meditation taster session to promote mental wellbeing. Why not finish off with lunch Interpretation in the World Peace Café and have a browse around the gift shop. You can enjoy the beautiful grounds from dawn to dusk at you leisure. Free Parking. Sewerby Hall and Gardens is the perfect day out, offering you access to the House, Gardens, Zoo and woodland walks. Join our costumed volunteers for a guided tour of Start Time: 11am tour, 12:15 optional meditation session this magnificent House, build throughout 1714 and 1720 by the Greame family. A full Meeting Point: Inside the Main Hall Door at the front of House. Madhymaka Kadampa refurbishment of the house in 2014 has restored the home property to how it would Meditation Centre, Kilnwick Percy Hall, Pocklington. York. YO42 1UF Cost: £2.50 have looked in 1910. Come and experience a genuine Edwardian home, transformed Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Beverley Tourist Information Centre, The Treasure using furniture from the Victoria and Albert Museum. Learn about a servant’s life House, Champney Road, Beverley, HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 Email: beverley.tic@ at Sewerby Hall with our interactive display and head to the servant’s wing to see eastriding.gov.uk Additional Information: Dogs are welcome on a lead all year round the kitchen, complete with working coal-fired range, the butler’s pantry and the in the grounds and in the Doggy Lodge to eat – but not in the Hall. There is wheelchair housekeeper’s parlour. Enjoy 50 acres of award-winning gardens and woodland. Each access on the ground floor and part of the grounds. garden offers its own variety of sights, smells and sounds throughout each of the four seasons. Why not complement your visit with a vintage afternoon tea in the Clock House tea rooms. WC Boat Cruise on the Pocklington Canal Start Time: Tour starts at 11.30am – 1.30pm. Gardens and café are open from 9:30 – 5pm Join Volunteers from the Pocklington Canal Amenity Society aboard the New Horizons Meeting Point: Outside the doors of the main Hall Cost: Adult: £7.90, Child £5.70 . Enjoy the tranquillity of this rural canal and spot wildlife along the way. Booking Essential: Yes Contact: www.sewerbyhall.co.uk/what-on (Search all/September Experience operating a lock, and have a go at steering the boat. Bring a packed lunch or 2019) Additional Information: Free parking at Sewerby Hall or why not get the Land snack. Tea and Coffee with be served on the boat. Train from outside the Tourist Information Centre in Bridlington. Start Time: Cruise one – 10.00am to 12:30pm Cruise two – 2:00pm to 4:30pm Meeting Point: Melbourne Arms Moorings, Pocklington. YO42 4QJ Cost: £5 per person Booking Essential: Yes The Alta Via Contact: Beverley Tourist Information Centre, The Treasure House, Champney Road, In much of central Beverley one can still find the medieval street pattern, none more Beverley, HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 Email: [email protected] so than the “Alta Via”, the High Street extending from Beverley Minster to North Bar. Additional Information: Toilet facilities available at the start and end of the trip (at the Peter Bonner will take you along the Alta Via from the Minster, stopping at Wednesday moorings). Please park responsibly in the village and walk down the lane at the side of Market, Toll Gavel, Register Square, Saturday Market and North Bar Within. He will the pub (200yds approx.) suggest how things would have looked at the time and how much of Beverley’s past remains or has been adapted and modified over the centuries. We will be going to the heart of Beverley’s history! Start Time: 10am to 12noon Meeting Point: Beverley Minster main doors opposite Highgate. Cost: Free Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Beverley Tourist Information Centre, The Treasure House, Champney Road, Beverley, HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 Email: [email protected]

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The Beck and beyond WC Walking for Health - Haltemprice Gordon Scaife will lead a guided walk around exploring its origins and Join one of our East Riding Council walking team for this 1 hour walk. Walking is almost the land around it. Join the Beverley Barge Preservation Society on the Syntan for a perfect exercise, requires no expense and can be done anywhere at any time. This walk is refreshing cuppa after your walk and an opportunity to see this great local project and aimed at anyone who has an interest in walking or wants to introduce exercise into their hear about the background. daily routine as part of rehabilitation from illness, injury or to get fit. Walking for Health Start Time: 2pm to 4pm can also be a great place to meet new people from your local area. Meeting Point: The Creelers statue, Beckside, near the Foresters Arms Cost: Free Start Time: 1:30 pm to 2:30pm Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Beverley Tourist Information Centre, Meeting Point: East Riding Leisure Haltemprice, Springfield Way, . HU10 6QJ The Treasure House, Champney Road, Beverley, HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 Cost: Free Booking Essential: No, just turn up 15 minutes before the walk starts Email: [email protected] Contact: For further information about the scheme - Laura Hutchinson, Healthy Lifestyles Development Officer. Tel: (01482) 392527 E: [email protected] Additional Information: Appropriate clothing, footwear and a bottle of water. Walk along 19C Flemingate Please check on the number above if a Dog is allowed on this walk! Flemingate is one of the oldest and most significant streets in Beverley and has seen many changes as the years have gone by. Our walk (more a slow amble) begins at the WC Minster and extends as far as the Beckside area. We examine the fabric of Victorian Walking for Health - Hornsea Flemingate and the lives of the people who lived along it in the middle of the 19C. Be Join one of our East Riding Council walking team for this 1 hour walk. Walking is almost prepared for surprises. perfect exercise, requires no expense and can be done anywhere at any time. This walk is Start Time: 7pm to 9pm aimed at anyone who has an interest in walking or wants to introduce exercise into their Meeting Point: Minster Yard North Cost: Free Booking Essential: Yes daily routine as part of rehabilitation from illness, injury or to get fit. Walking for Health Contact: Beverley Tourist Information Centre, The Treasure House, Champney Road, can also be a great place to meet new people from your local area. Beverley, HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 Email: [email protected] Start Time: 11am to 12noon Meeting Point: Hornsea Floral Hall Café, Esplanade, Hornsea. HU18 1NQ Cost: Free Booking Essential: No, just turn up 15 minutes before the walk starts Wayrham Dale walk Contact: For further information about the scheme - Laura Hutchinson, Healthy Lifestyles Development Officer. Tel: (01482) 392527 E: [email protected] Discover an excellent walking area with secluded dales, fine views, and several steep Additional Information: Appropriate clothing, footwear and a bottle of water. hills. If you have never explored the Yorkshire Wolds on foot before, you will be impressed Please check on the number above if a Dog is allowed on this walk! by this beautiful area. Start Time: 10am Distance: 9 Miles Meeting Point: Wayrham Dale Picnic Site on A166 (YO42 1TA) WC Walking for Health – Market Weighton Cost: Free Booking Essential: No just turn up on the day. Additional Information: Please bring a packed lunch and plenty to drink. Join one of our East Riding Council walking team for this 1.5 hour walk. Walking is almost perfect exercise, requires no expense and can be done anywhere at any time. This walk is aimed at anyone who has an interest in walking or wants to introduce WC Walking for Health - Beverley exercise into their daily routine as part of rehabilitation from illness, injury or to get fit. Walking for Health can also be a great place to meet new people from your local area. Join one of our East Riding Council walking team for this 45 minute walk. Walking is Start Time: 10am to 11:30pm almost perfect exercise, requires no expense and can be done anywhere at any time. Meeting Point: St John’s Methodist Church, Market Place, Market Weighton. YO43 3 This walk is aimed at anyone who has an interest in walking or wants to introduce AJ Cost: Free Booking Essential: No, just turn up 15 minutes before the walk starts. exercise into their daily routine as part of rehabilitation from illness, injury or to get fit. Contact: For further information - David Battams 07875 550413 or Andrew F Barber Walking for Health can also be a great place to meet new people from your local area. 07843 or visit www.weightonwalkers.org Start Time: 9.45am to 10.30am Additional Information: Appropriate clothing, footwear and a bottle of water. Meeting Point: East Riding Leisure Beverley, Flemingate, Beverley. HU17 0LT Please check on the number above if a Dog is allowed on this walk! Cost: Free Booking Essential: No, just turn up 15 minutes before the walk starts Contact: For further information about the scheme - Laura Hutchinson, Healthy Lifestyles Development Officer. Tel: (01482) 392527 E: [email protected] Additional Information: Appropriate clothing, footwear and a bottle of water. Please check on the number above if a Dog is allowed on this walk!

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WC Walking for Health – Preston Join one of our East Riding Council walking team for this 1 hour walk. Walking is almost perfect exercise, requires no expense and can be done anywhere at any time. This walk is aimed at anyone who has an interest in walking or wants to introduce exercise into their daily routine as part of rehabilitation from illness, injury or to get fit. Walking for Health can also be a great place to meet new people from your local area. Start Time: 1:30pm to 2:30pm Meeting Point: Preston Community Hall, Main Street, Preston, Hull. HU12 8SA THURSDAY 12TH SEPTEMBER Cost: Free Booking Essential: No, just turn up 15 minutes before the walk starts. Contact: For further information about the scheme - Laura Hutchinson, Healthy Lifestyles WC Development Officer. Tel: (01482) 392527 E: [email protected] Wassand - a Regency Hall and Woodland Walk Additional Information: Appropriate clothing, footwear and a bottle of water. Join us for a special open day at Wassand Hall. A fine Regency House in beautiful Please check on the number above if a Dog is allowed on this walk! tranquil surroundings between Seaton and Hornsea. The Estate has been in one family ownership since 1520. We will start with a Tour of the Hall and a little talk on its History. The Hall contains a collection of 18th and 19th century paintings, English and European WC Walking for Health – Withernsea silver, furniture and procelain. Wassand is very much a family home and retains a friendly atmosphere. You will then have the opportunity to do the Bird Hide Walk Join one of our East Riding Council walking team for this 1 hour walk. Walking is almost through an ancient forest led by our Bird Hide Warden or explore the woodlands and perfect exercise, requires no expense and can be done anywhere at any time. This walk is arboretum. The tour will finish with a drink and biscuit. aimed at anyone who has an interest in walking or wants to introduce exercise into their daily routine as part of rehabilitation from illness, injury or to get fit. Walking for Health Start Time: 9:30am to finish at 11:45am or 1:30pm finishing at 3:34pm can also be a great place to meet new people from your local area. Meeting Point: Wassand Hall, A1035 (formerly B1244) between Seaton and Hornsea. HU11 5RJ Cost: £5.00 per person Booking Essential: Yes Start Time: 9:30am to 10:30am Contact: Beverley Tourist Information Centre, The Treasure House, Champney Road, Meeting Point: East Riding Leisure Withernsea, Station Road, Withernsea. HU19 2QA Beverley, HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 Email: [email protected] Cost: Free Booking Essential: No, just turn up 15 minutes before the walk starts. Additional Information: Please wear strong footwear for the walk. Contact: For further information about the scheme - Laura Hutchinson, Healthy Lifestyles Development Officer. Tel: (01482) 392527 E: [email protected] Additional Information: Appropriate clothing, footwear and a bottle of water. Please check on the number above if a Dog is allowed on this walk! Londesborough Estate Walk Enjoy a walk through the picturesque Londesborough estate near Market Weighton created by the third Earl of Burlington in the 17th century and once occupied by the ‘Railway King’ George Hudson. Our walk will start at the car park in and proceed out towards Towthorpe Corner allowing us to enjoy views over the entire historic estate. We will then walk through the estate up into the Village passing the church before heading back towards Goodmanham. History information during the route will be given out by our walk leader Andrew. We will stop for a lunch break during the walk. (the Fiddle Drill and The Goodmanham Arms will both be open upon our return Start Time: 10:30am to 2pm Distance: 7 Miles Meeting Point: Car park in Goodmanham Cost: Free Booking Essential: No Contact: Andrew Frankland-Barber to discuss the walk further: [email protected] Tel: 07843 784763 Additional Information: Cattle and Sheep can be out grazing on the Estate. Bring a packed lunch and plenty to drink.

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WC Secrets of Sewerby – an outdoor History Tour Politics of the Gutter Sewerby Hall and Gardens is one of the gems of the Yorkshire coast and is renowned for Walk with Ian Richardson and look into the colourful political history in Beverley and find its beautiful grounds and views. But, in fact, there has been human activity at Sewerby a background full of surprises, and a real claim to making history as well as reflecting it. for thousands of years, long before the hall was built or the gardens laid out. This walk, This walk focuses on the Victorian period in Beverley. led by Robert Chester the hall’s education officer, is an opportunity to find out a little Start Time: 5:30pm to 7:00pm Meeting Point: Market Cross, Saturday Market. more about this rich history and explore the hall and grounds in the context of its wider Cost: Free Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Beverley Tourist Information Centre, historical and archaeological landscape. There will also be a chance to look at some The Treasure House, Champney Road, Beverley, HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 relevant items from the museum handling collection. The tour will last for about an Email: [email protected] hour and a half, and will take the form of a gentle stroll around the grounds that will finish back in front of the Hall. The tour will be suitable for anyone, including those with mobility issues, and will stick to paths or lawns with plenty of opportunity to stop and Elwell Walk rest along the way. Why not finish with lunch in the Clock Tower Café! Join guide Val Wise who will explain how the Elwells reached Beverley, where they Start Time: 10:30am to 12noon lived and worked, where you can see their paintings and how their work reflected the Meeting Point: The Welcome Centre, Sewerby Hall and Gardens Church Lane, Sewerby. changing town. This gentle walk will include many anecdotes. YO15 1EA Cost: £3.50 Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Beverley Tourist Information Centre, The Treasure House, Champney Road, Beverley, HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 Start Time: 1:30pm to 3:30pm Meeting Point: Outside the Railway Station Email: [email protected] Cost: Free Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Beverley Tourist Information Centre, Additional Information: There will be some gentle slopes and people are advised to The Treasure House, Champney Road, Beverley, HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 wear appropriate shoes and outdoor clothing. Your entrance tickets allows you full day Email: [email protected] access to the Hall and Gardens. WC Pilgrimage of Grace Walk Driffield Canal Walk to Watery Wansford and beyond This linear route from Warter to Pocklington is the original trail devised by the Heritage Join our two experienced walking guides for a lovely circular stroll taking in one of the project. It follows ancient route ways that rebels would have followed to join the muster best river landscapes in the area. We start our walk at the converted old warehouse at at Pocklington. We invite walkers to follow in the footsteps of the popular uprising the head of what was once a busy canal. We follow the path down the south side of the which began in East Yorkshire in October 1536 before spreading wider across Northern canal to the picturesque village of Wansford passing an eighteenth century watermill England. The route starts at the Wolds Heritage Centre (formerly St. James Church at then onto the village of passing the village Church and heading back to Warter which is on the site of the original Warter Priory). The trail takes us from Warter Driffield. A fabulous walk to enjoy Driffield and the surrounding area. to and on to Kilnwick Percy (the Tudor Hall in October 1536 was the Free book containing 12 River Hull Walks for all attendees. home of Sir Thomas Heneage, Henry VIII’s ‘Groom of the Stool’). The walk finishes in the Start Time: 11am to 3pm Distance: 7 miles Meeting Point: Parking area at River Head, historic market town of Pocklington, the Gateway to the Wolds. Driffield, Outside Mortimer’s Warehouse. YO25 6PA Cost: Free Start Time: 10:30am Distance: 8.5 miles Booking Essential: No, just turn up on the day Contact: Beverley Tourist Information Meeting Point: Outside the Railway Station in Pocklington to catch your coach to Centre, The Treasure House, Champney Road, Beverley, HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 Warter Cost: Free, Optional £3 payable on the day to help the sustainability of the Email: [email protected] project Booking Essential: Yes Additional Information: Bring a pack up and drinks. Sorry no Dogs. Contact: John Brown on Tel: 01759 302715, [email protected] Additional Information: Children over 12 welcome if they are used to walking. No dogs please. Walking shoes or boots recommended. The Alta Via In much of central Beverley one can still find the medieval street pattern, none more so than the “Alta Via”, the High Street extending from Beverley Minster to North Bar. WC The Hedon Pub Walk Peter Bonner will take you along the Alta Via from the Minster, stopping at Wednesday Hedon at one time had 13 and breweries, enough for one for every 86 man, Market, Toll Gavel, Register Square, Saturday Market and North Bar Within. He will woman and child. This two hour walk takes you round the town with stories of pubs and suggest how things would have looked at the time and how much of Beverley’s past breweries, past and present. From riots to royal accessions and crimes to corruption. remains or has been adapted and modified over the centuries. We will be going to the There is a lot more to Hedon than you may think. We may even call into one or two. heart of Beverley’s history! Start Time: 7:30pm to 9pm Distance: 1 Miles Meeting Point: Market Place, Hedon. Start Time: 5:30pm to 7:30pm HU12 8JA Cost: £4, under 16’s £2 Booking Essential: No just come along for the start Meeting Point: Beverley Minster main doors opposite Highgate time. Contact: Tony Porter 07763 994060, Facebook: hedonhistorywalks, Twitter: @ Cost: Free Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Beverley Tourist Information Centre, HedonWalks The Treasure House, Champney Road, Beverley, HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 Email: [email protected]

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Yorkshire Wolds Way: Fridaythorpe and Pluckham WC Walking for Health - Leven Join the countryside access team to explore the characteristic dry valleys of the Wolds; Join one of our East Riding Council walking team for this 1 hour walk. Walking is almost discover the beautiful views and quiet tranquillity of Horse Dale, Holme Dale and perfect exercise, requires no expense and can be done anywhere at any time. This walk is Brubber Dale along this wonderful stretch of the Yorkshire Wolds Way. aimed at anyone who has an interest in walking or wants to introduce exercise into their Start Time: 10am – 2pm Distance: 7.5 miles Meeting Point: Fridaythorpe village green daily routine as part of rehabilitation from illness, injury or to get fit. Walking for Health and duck pond, Back Street. YO25 9RT. Cost: Adult £3.50, Concessions over 60 & under can also be a great place to meet new people from your local area. 16 £2.50, Family ticket (up to 2 adults and 3 children) £9 Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Start Time: 10am to 11am Countryside Access Team, Tel: (01482) 395320. Online: www.bridspa.com/events - click Meeting Point: Leven Sports & Social Club, North Street, Leven. HU17 5NF ‘Venue’ on the dropdown and then select ‘Sports Play & Countryside Events’. Cost: Free Booking Essential: No, just turn up 15 minutes before the walk starts. Contact: For further information about the scheme - Laura Hutchinson, Healthy WC Walking for Health - Beverley Lifestyles Development Officer. Tel: (01482) 392527 E: [email protected] Additional Information: Appropriate clothing, footwear and a bottle of water. Please Join one of our East Riding Council walking team for this 1 hour walk. Walking is almost check on the number above if a Dog is allowed on this walk! perfect exercise, requires no expense and can be done anywhere at any time. This walk is aimed at anyone who has an interest in walking or wants to introduce exercise into their daily routine as part of rehabilitation from illness, injury or to get fit. Walking for Health WC Walking for Health - Welwick can also be a great place to meet new people from your local area. Join one of our East Riding Council walking team for this 1 hour walk. Walking is almost Start Time: 11am to 12 noon Meeting Point: East Riding Leisure Beverley, Flemingate, perfect exercise, requires no expense and can be done anywhere at any time. This walk is Beverley. HU17 0LT Cost: Free Booking Essential: No, just turn up 15 minutes before aimed at anyone who has an interest in walking or wants to introduce exercise into their the walk starts Contact: For further information about the scheme - Laura Hutchinson, daily routine as part of rehabilitation from illness, injury or to get fit. Walking for Health Healthy Lifestyles Development Officer. Tel: (01482) 392527 E: laura.hutchinson@ can also be a great place to meet new people from your local area. eastriding.gov.uk Additional Information: Appropriate clothing, footwear and a bottle of water. Please check on the number above if a Dog is allowed on this walk! Start Time: 1:30pm to 2:30pm Meeting Point: Welwick Village Hall, Main Street, Welwick, Hull. HU17 0RY Cost: Free Booking Essential: No, just turn up 15 minutes before the walk starts. WC Walking for Health - Bridlington Contact: For further information about the scheme - Laura Hutchinson, Healthy Join one of our East Riding Council walking team for this 1 hour walk. Walking is almost Lifestyles Development Officer. Tel: (01482) 392527 E: [email protected] perfect exercise, requires no expense and can be done anywhere at any time. This walk is Additional Information: Appropriate clothing, footwear and a bottle of water. Please aimed at anyone who has an interest in walking or wants to introduce exercise into their check on the number above if a Dog is allowed on this walk! daily routine as part of rehabilitation from illness, injury or to get fit. Walking for Health can also be a great place to meet new people from your local area. WC Walking for Health - Driffield Start Time: 10am to 11am Meeting Point: East Riding Leisure Bridlington, The Promenade, Bridlington. YO15 2QQ (Meet inside at the café). Cost: Free Join one of our East Riding Council walking team for a 30 minute walk. Walking is Booking Essential: No, just turn up 15 minutes before the walk starts almost perfect exercise, requires no expense and can be done anywhere at any time. Contact: For further information about the scheme - Laura Hutchinson, Healthy Lifestyles This walk is aimed at anyone who has an interest in walking or wants to introduce Development Officer. Tel: (01482) 392527 E: [email protected] exercise into their daily routine as part of rehabilitation from illness, injury or to get fit. Additional Information: Appropriate clothing, footwear and a bottle of water. Walking for Health can also be a great place to meet new people from your local area. Please check on the number above if a Dog is allowed on this walk! Start Time: 10am to 10:30am Meeting Point: Driffield Library and Customer Service Centre, Cross Hill, WC Walking for Health - Goole Driffield. YO25 6RQ Cost: Free Booking Essential: No, just turn up 15 minutes before the walk starts. Contact: For further information about the scheme - Laura Hutchinson, Join one of our East Riding Council walking team for this 1 hour walk. Walking is almost Healthy Lifestyles Development Officer. Tel: (01482) 392527 E: laura.hutchinson@ perfect exercise, requires no expense and can be done anywhere at any time. This walk is eastriding.gov.uk Additional Information: Appropriate clothing, footwear and a bottle of aimed at anyone who has an interest in walking or wants to introduce exercise into their water. Please check on the number above if a Dog is allowed on this walk! daily routine as part of rehabilitation from illness, injury or to get fit. Walking for Health can also be a great place to meet new people from your local area. Start Time: 10am to 11am Meeting Point: East Riding Leisure Goole, North Street, Goole. DN14 5QX Cost: Free Booking Essential: No, just turn up 15 minutes before the walk starts Contact: For further information about the scheme - Laura Hutchinson, Healthy Lifestyles Development Officer. Tel: (01482) 392527 E: laura.hutchinson@ eastriding.gov.uk Additional Information: Appropriate clothing, footwear and a bottle of water. Please check on the number above if a Dog is allowed on this walk!

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Sledmere and the Sykes Family Sledmere House is a Grade I listed Georgian country house, containing Chippendale, Sheraton and French furnishings and many fine pictures, set within a park designed by Capability Brown. Join our Tour guide to explore this distinguished house and learn a little of its history. Following the House tour the gardens team will take us for a tour around the grounds and octagonal walled kitchen garden which are gaining increasing prominence for their dynamic and innovative development programme. Coffee and FRIDAY 13TH SEPTEMBER biscuits will be served on arrival. Extend your visit and have lunch at the Terrace Café and pay a visit to the new gift shop. Start Time: 10am to 12:30pm Meeting Point: The Farm Shop at Sledmere House A Boat Trip on the Driffield Canal Cost: £7.50 Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Beverley Tourist Information Centre, Join the crew of the Lady Jayne and explore beautiful countryside and wildlife not seen The Treasure House, Champney Road, Beverley, HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 Email: on public roads. The cruise will take you from Frodingham Landing southwards towards [email protected] Additional Information: Free parking on site Landing. You will see the Bridge opening at Hempholme and the many craft that moor there. We stretch our legs at Hempholme landing and enjoy our picnics before heading home again. The trip is ideal for those who want to learn more about the historic Bridlington Old Town Trail waterways, bird and wildlife watchers. Join our guide for a trail around the historic Old Town of Bridlington which was originally Start Time: 11am to 1pm & 1pm to 3pm Meeting Point: Bridge Farm, Church Lane, the main part of the town. We will stroll through the Old Town’s heritage and history, Frodingham Cost: £5.00 per person Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Beverley Tourist visiting the Priory Church and Bayle Museum. With its High Street, Market Place and Information Centre, The Treasure House, Champney Road, Beverley, HU17 8HE. greens, the Old Town was a major trading area for many of the surrounding villages Tel: (01482) 391672 Email: [email protected] which were dependent on the goods and products sold here. Today there are still many Additional Information: Bring a picnic to eat on the boat or at Hempholme lock interesting buildings to look at and admire. Along the trail you will find a number of antique shops, galleries and cafes to visit. Start Time: 10:30am to 12noon WC Side Oven Bakery – from field to fork! Meeting Point: Church Green between the Bayle and Priory, off St John Street, Situated on the edge of the Yorkshire Wolds, Carr House Farm is the home of the Side Bridlington. YO16 7JX Cost: Free Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Beverley Tourist Oven Bakery, where the Sellers family have lived and worked for five generations. A Information Centre or Bridlington Tourist Information Centre Tel: (01482) 391672/34 wide range of cereals are grown on the farm, which following harvest is taken to the mill Email: [email protected] / [email protected] house where they are milled using a traditional stone ground mill. Opening their door for the first time to the festival, Join the team for a talk and tour of the Bakery and Mill to learn about how the farm has diversified into an award winning bakery. We finish off The Beverley Pub Walk – join the Inn Crowd! with a light lunch provided by the Bakery. You will also have the opportunity to do the Your host Paul Schofield will reveal the stories behind pub history in our market town with Farm walk and nature trail and buy some of their delicious produce. visits to some of the familiar hostelries. Why were there so many drinking places? Cheers! Start Time: 10am to 12:30pm Meeting Point: Side Oven Bakery, Carr House Farm, Start Time: 7pm to 9pm Meeting Point: Meet in The Royal Standard, North Bar Within Foston on the Wolds, Driffield. YO25 8BS Cost: £7.50 Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Cost: £4 Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Beverley Tourist Information Centre, Beverley Tourist Information Centre, The Treasure House, Champney Road, Beverley, The Treasure House, Champney Road, Beverley, HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Additional Information: Plenty of parking and we also have disabled access and facilities.

Tophill Low Bat Walk Mary Wollstonecraft Mary Wollstonecraft lived in Beverley between 1768 and 1774. It was a dynamic time Listen to the experts as Claire from East Yorkshire Bat Group gives a presentation with lots of new buildings being erected. Assemblies, Cockfighting, Horse Racing and the about bats before tracking them down on the reserve using bat detection equipment. Spa attracted visitors and there was a huge thirst for knowledge and improvement. Val Start Time: 6:30pm to 8:30pm Wise’s walk takes in places associated with Mary and the builders working in the town at Meeting Point: The visitor centre, Nature Reserve, Tophill Low, Driffield YO25 9RH that time. The walk finishes at the Guildhall with refreshments. Cost: Event free with standard admission (£3.50 adults, £1.80 concessions) Start Time: 10am to 12noon Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Tophill Low Nature Reserve on 01377 270690 to Meeting Point: 2 Highgate, Beverley Cost: Free Booking Essential: Yes reserve your place Contact: Beverley Tourist Information Centre, The Treasure House, Champney Road, Additional Information: Wear sensible footwear for weather conditions Beverley, HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 Email: [email protected]

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WC Spurn Safari Snapshots of Medieval Beverley – Part 1 – Southern Beverley Enjoy a safari at Spurn and enjoy a guided three hour tour looking out for wildlife Join Colin Bradshaw for a walk which links together some of Beverley’s many medieval and discover more about the fascinating heritage of Yorkshire’s very own ‘Land’s buildings. Hear about collapsing buildings (including the role of an earthquake), the life End’. Climb aboard the all-terrain Unimog for a tour with a difference. Learn more of the clergy, an archbishop’s palace and his deer park. You will also learn about the about the fascinating wildlife and history of this iconic Yorkshire Landmark from a seamier side of medieval life as it affected the inn keepers and their customers and the knowledgeable guide, and climb the newly restored Spurn Lighthouse for incredible best place to visit a loo – at that time. views! Spurn promises to be busy this weekend with lots of birders about at the Spurn Two identical walks starting at opposite ends of the town. Bird Observatory Migration Festival. Start Time: 1:30pm to 3pm Meeting Point: Outside the Monks Walk, Highgate Start Time: 12 noon to finish at 3:00pm. Start Time: 3:30pm to 5pm Meeting Point: Outside the Friary (Now Beverley Youth Hostel) Meeting Point: Spurn Information Centre (located on the Nature Reserve) Spurn Cost: Free Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Beverley Tourist Information Centre, National Nature Reserve. HU12 0UH (located on the Nature Reserve) The Treasure House, Champney Road, Beverley, HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 Grid Reference: TA419149 Cost: £18 Adult, £9 Child. (Parking £5 per car) Email: [email protected] Booking Essential: Yes, please indicate time required Contact: Book online at www.ywt.org.uk/events or Tel: (01964) 659570. Additional Information: No Dogs, wear warm clothing and sensible footwear. Children must be WC Pub walk with the Weighton Walkers able to walk unaided and climb steep steps. Please arrive 15 minutes before the start. Join the Weigthon Walkers for a 5 miles exhilarating walk around Millington Dale on the Yorkshire Wolds talking in breath-taking scenery. We will return to the Gait Inn for a well- earned lunch for those who wish to join in. A Walk through Howden’s Past Start Time: 10:30am to 1pm Meeting Point: The Gait Inn, Main Street, Millington. YO42 Steeped in history, the vibrant Georgian market town of Howden is dominated by its 1TX Cost: Free Booking Essential: No, just turn up 15 minutes before the walk starts Minster which overlooks a beautifully preserved town centre with narrow cobbled streets Contact: For further information contact: Andrew F Barber on 07843 784763 or visit: and restored buildings. Join Howden Civic Society for their Blue Plaque Trail and learn a www.weightonwalkers.org Additional Information: Appropriate clothing, footwear and a little of this town’s history. bottle of water. Start Time: 2pm Meeting Point: The Market Cross, Howden Market Place, Howden Cost: Free Booking Essential: No, just turn up Contact: Tel: 01430 432510 [email protected] if you need any further information. Bats and Moths at Oakhill Additional Information: Dogs on a lead welcome. The streets are wheelchair friendly but See bats hunting around the meadows and ponds of the reserve at night. Gather round the some pavements are narrow. bright moth light uniquely installed for the evening, and marvel at the moths when they are attracted to the light. With specialist Ian Marshall and the East Yorkshire Bat Group. Start Time: 7pm to 9pm Distance: Up to 2 miles around the reserve Meeting Point: WC Beverley Minster Tour Oakhill Nature Reserve car park, off Tom Pudding Way, Goole DN14 6XL. (Near Tesco Beverley Minster has been a place of prayer for over 1300 years. On this tour our distribution centre on link road between M62 junction and Anderson Road). OS Explorer experienced guide will show you the Saxon sanctuary chair, the Norman font and Map 201, grid ref: SE 728 234 Cost: Free Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Countryside describe the history of the present Gothic church and the place where the remains Access Team, Tel: (01482) 395320 Online: www.bridspa.com/events - click ‘Venue’ on the of Saint John of Beverley are buried. Climb 113 steps to the roof and see amazing dropdown and then select ‘Sports Play & Countryside Events’. things normally hidden from public view. You should have excellent views through the rose windows and your guide will show you the human-powered lifting crane and the medieval wooden structure supporting the lead roof. WC On your Bike at Spurn Point Start Time: 10:00am to 11:30am Meeting Point: The Steps at the entrance to the Enjoy Spurn National Nature Reserve by bike. Cycle to nearby Kilnsea Wetland Nature Minster on Highgate Cost: £5.00 Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Beverley Tourist Reserve and explore the local area. Included within our cycle hire is an activity pack, Information Centre, The Treasure House, Champney Road, Beverley, HU17 8HE. Tel: helmet and lock. The activity pack includes magnifying glass, binoculars, identification (01482) 391672 Email: [email protected] Additional Information: 113 winding sheets and inspection tray. In addition to this entry to the lighthouse is also included steps to the roof of the minster – in a confined space. No Children under 8 year old. (subject to opening times). Enjoy some well-earned refreshments in the discovery centre up on your return. Start Time: Between 10am and 4pm Meeting Point: Available from the Spurn Discovery Centre Cost: £10 per Bike for a full day and £5 per bike for a half day Booking Essential: Advisable to guarantee availability Contact: 01964 650144 or email [email protected] Additional Information: To reach the Spurn Lighthouse and Spurn Point you will need to push bikes over a sandy section at Spurn that we call the wash-over, this takes around 15 minutes. Some identification will be required for bike hire purposes.

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Sewerby Hall, Costumed Volunteer Interpretation Sewerby Hall and Gardens is the perfect day out, offering you access to the House, Gardens, Zoo and woodland walks. Join our costumed volunteers for a guided tour of this magnificent House, build throughout 1714 and 1720 by the Greame family. A full refurbishment of the house in 2014 has restored the home property to how it would have looked in 1910. Come and experience a genuine Edwardian home, transformed using furniture from the Victoria and Albert Museum. Learn about a servant’s life at Sewerby Hall with our interactive display and head to the servant’s wing to see the SATURDAY 14TH SEPTEMBER kitchen, complete with working coal-fired range, the butler’s pantry and the housekeeper’s parlour. Enjoy 50 acres of award-winning gardens and woodland. Each garden offers its own variety of sights, smells and sounds throughout each of the four seasons. Why not The Headlands Way complement your visit with a vintage afternoon tea in the Clock House tea rooms. Join us for a two day walk along the stunning Headlands Way linking the seaside towns Start Time: Tour starts at 11.30am – 1.30pm. Gardens and café are open from 9:30 – 5pm of Filey and Bridlington along the dramatic coastline passing RSBP Bempton Cliffs, Meeting Point: Outside the doors of the main Hall Cost: Adult: £7.11, Child £5.13 Flamborough, North Landing and down to Bridlington. Please see full page advert on Booking Essential: Yes Contact: www.sewerbyhall.co.uk/what-on (Search all/September page 66 for further details. 2019) Additional Information: Free parking at Sewerby Hall or why not get the Land Train from outside the Tourist Information Centre in Bridlington WC Climb to dizzy heights in Flamborough! WC Flamborough Lighthouse Tours provide a great way to learn more about this Walking for Health - Pocklington lighthouse located on Flamborough Head, about 1.2 miles from Flamborough on the Join one of our East Riding Council walking team for this 1.5 hour walk. Walking is B1259. Climb the 119 steps for stunning views over Bridlington and learn about the almost perfect exercise, requires no expense and can be done anywhere at any time. history of the lighthouse built in 1806 and how it marks the Flamborough Headlands for This walk is aimed at anyone who has an interest in walking or wants to introduce vessels heading for the ports of Scarborough and Bridlington. Flamborough Lighthouse exercise into their daily routine as part of rehabilitation from illness, injury or to get fit. is operated by East Riding of Yorkshire Council on behalf of Trinity House. Walking for Health can also be a great place to meet new people from your local area. Start Times: 12 noon to 4pm (tours every half hour. Last tour 3.30pm) Start Time: 10am to 11:30am Meeting Point: Flamborough Head Lighthouse, Lighthouse Road, Flamborough , Meeting Point: Nunburnholme Cost: Free Bridlington. YO15 1AR Cost: Adults £4.60, Family ticket (2 adults and up to 2 children) Booking Essential: No, just turn up 15 minutes before the walk starts £14.50 Additional child £1.00 Child (up to 15 years) £3.60 Over 65/Concessions £3.60 Contact: For further information on meeting point contact: Isobel (01759) 303091, Booking Essential: No just turn up on the day Wendy (01759) 305613 or Sue (01430) 871367 Contact: For further information: 01262 673769 Additional Information: Appropriate clothing, footwear and a bottle of water. Please Additional Information: Children are welcome, but they must be at least 1.1 metres in check on the number above if a Dog is allowed on this walk! height. All visitors (including children) must be able to ascend and descend the stairs unaided. Wear sensible footwear (not flip flops).

Yapham Village Walks! Two circular walks starting and finishing at Yapham Village Hall. Walkers can choose between a 6 mile walk along the edge of the Wolds, into or a gentler 2 mile walk to , and through the fields around the Parish. Refreshments will be served at Yapham Village Hall. Parking will be available at Yapham Village Hall. A guided walk will be on offer, along with route maps for those wishing to explore on their own. Teas, coffees and Bacon Butties available to help raise fund for the Hall. Start Time: 10am to 12noon Distance: Choice between 2 miles and 6 miles Meeting Point: Yapham Village Hall Cost: Free Booking Essential: No Just turn up on the day! Contact: Children welcome, longer walk may be challenging in places and involves a steep climb/descent

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Bats in Boxes at Millington Wood Stoned in Beverley A unique opportunity to watch our autumn check of the bat boxes. Enjoy a stroll around Did you know that a range of different rocks can be found in the town? Explore the wood and take a special close look at the bats who have been roosting in the boxes Beverley’s geology with Colin Bradshaw. We can find rocks from Wales, Scotland and with the East Yorkshire Bat Group. even Norway. More local rocks tell us a story of tropical seas and early life. You will Start Time: 10am to 12:30pm Distance: Up to 1 miles around the reserve never look at Beverley’s buildings in the same way again. This walk relates rocks to Meeting Point: Millington Wood Local Nature Reserve, near Pocklington. YO42 1TZ. OS architecture. We will be keeping to pavements in the town so it should be suitable for Explorer Map 294, gred ref: SE 838 530 Cost: Adult £3.50, Concessions over 60 & under 16 wheelchair users. The walk will finish at the Treasure House where you can get a drink in £2.50, Family ticket (up to 2 adults and 3 children) £9 Booking Essential: Yes the cafe and perhaps visit the museum which has a small local geology display. Contact: Countryside Access Team, Tel: (01482) 395320 Online: www.bridspa.com/events - Start Time: 10:30am to 12noon click ‘Venue’ on the dropdown and then select ‘Sports Play & Countryside Events’. Meeting Point: The Minster steps facing Highgate Cost: Free Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Beverley Tourist Information Centre, The Treasure House, Champney Road, Beverley, HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 WC Spurn Safari Email: [email protected] Enjoy a safari at Spurn and enjoy a guided three hour tour looking out for wildlife and discover more about the fascinating heritage of Yorkshire’s very own ‘Land’s End’. Climb aboard the all-terrain Unimog for a tour with a difference. Learn more Out with the old and in with the new – 1120 to 2018 about the fascinating wildlife and history of this iconic Yorkshire Landmark from a On this walk Carli Black will take you to the heights of Beverley – quite literally! Starting knowledgeable guide, and climb the newly restored Spurn Lighthouse for incredible with a stunning viewpoint (weather permitting) giving you probably the best view in the views! Spurn promises to be busy this weekend with lots of birders about at the Spurn East Riding, from St Mary’s tower. You will need a head for heights and good mobility Bird Observatory Migration Festival. as you ascend the tower using narrow steps. Leaving this vantage point we will walk Start Time: 1:30pm to finish at 4:30pm Meeting Point: Spurn Information Centre through Beverley, forward in time, covering a millennium of history as we walk. The walk (located on the Nature Reserve) Spurn National Nature Reserve. HU12 0UH (located will highlight signs of the past centuries in our busy streets. Right up to date in 2019 we on the Nature Reserve) Grid Reference: TA419149 Cost: £18 Adult, £9 Child. (Parking £5 will then have the privilege of viewing Beverley Minster and the rooftops of the town per car) Booking Essential: Yes, please indicate time required Contact: Book online at from the latest spectacular viewpoint, the Conference Room, at the East Riding College. www.ywt.org.uk/events or Tel: (01964) 659570. Additional Information: No Dogs, wear Mr John Doris (Former Vice Principal) has invited us to join him to hear about the college warm clothing and sensible footwear. Children must be able to walk unaided and climb and the development of Flemingate. steep steps. Please arrive 15 minutes before the start. Start Time: 6pm to 8pm Meeting Point: St Mary’s church gates Cost: Yes Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Beverley Tourist Information Centre, The Treasure House, Champney Road, WC A Hike round Hedon Beverley, HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 Email: [email protected] This walk around the boundary of the town enables the entire history of the town to be told, from foundation to WWII. A long and illustrious history over more than 800m years – there’s a story round every corner! The walk is on the flat but maybe a bit muddy in Over 500 years of history in less than 500 footsteps! parts after rain. Find out more about the history as we circumnavigate the town. Join Colin Bradshaw for the shortest history walk we offer. In less than 500 footsteps Start Time: 1pm to 3pm Distance: 4 Miles Meeting Point: Hedon Market Hill, near the church, you will be taken from the 20C back to the 16C. Incredibly we will range from drunks HU12 8JE Cost: £4, under 16’s £2 Booking Essential: No just come along for the start time to members of the Temperance movement; from Dick Turpin to James Elwell; from Contact: Tony Porter 07763 994060, Facebook: hedonhistorywalks, Twitter: @HedonWalks a gentleman’s club to evacuee children. And that is only a tiny taste of what you will encounter. On arrival at the Guildhall you will be given a conducted tour, of one of the most fascinating buildings in Yorkshire, by the curators. A Walk through Howden’s Past Start Time: 2:30pm to 3:45pm Meeting Point: Entrance to the Treasure House on Champney Road Cost: Free Booking Essential: Yes Steeped in history, the vibrant Georgian market town of Howden is dominated by its Contact: Beverley Tourist Information Centre, The Treasure House, Champney Road, Minster which overlooks a beautifully preserved town centre with narrow cobbled streets Beverley, HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 Email: [email protected] and restored buildings. Join Howden Civic Society for their Blue Plaque Trail and learn a little of this town’s history. Start Time: 2pm Meeting Point: The Market Cross, Howden Market Place, Howden Cost: Free Booking Essential: No, just turn up Contact: Tel: 01430 432510 [email protected] if you need any further information. Additional Information: Dogs on a lead welcome. The streets are wheelchair friendly but some pavements are narrow.

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Beverley Breeze Ladies Cycle ride Would you like to get out on your bike more but don’t know where to start? Breeze ladies are here to help! No need for fancy bikes and clothing. Join us for an easy going ride, along the Westwood to Bishop Burton and onto Walkington with a coffee stop at Eliza’s. The route is along cycle paths and quiet roads. There is a steady uphill incline to Walkington. Start Time: 10am Distance: 20 Miles Meeting Point: East Riding Leisure Beverley, Flemingate, Beverley, HU17 0LT Cost: Free Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Register on the ‘Lets Ride’ website www.letsride.co.uk (search Beverley) For further information SUNDAY 15TH SEPTEMBER please contact: Brenda Cartwright [email protected] Additional Information: Please make sure your bike is in a roadworthy condition, wear a cycle helmet and bring a spare WC inner tube and tools in case of a puncture! Climb to dizzy heights in Flamborough! Flamborough Lighthouse Tours provide a great way to learn more about this lighthouse located on Flamborough Head, about 1.2 miles from Flamborough on the B1259. Climb WC Sewerby park run the 119 steps for stunning views over Bridlington and learn about the history of the lighthouse built in 1806 and how it marks the Flamborough Headlands for vessels Sewerby Park Run is a FREE 5k timed run that takes place every Saturday morning at heading for the ports of Scarborough and Bridlington. Flamborough Lighthouse is 9am. Parkrun is a community event run by volunteers aimed at encouraging people to operated by East Riding of Yorkshire Council on behalf of Trinity House. keep fit, healthy and active. Runners of all abilities are welcome. Start Time: 12 noon to 4pm (tours every half hour. Last tour 3.30pm) Start Time: Leaving at 9:00am Meeting Point: Sewerby Hall and Gardens, Church Meeting Point: Flamborough Head Lighthouse, Lighthouse Road, Flamborough , Lane, Sewerby. YO15 1EA Cost: Free Booking Essential: No just turn up with your Bridlington. YO15 1AR Cost: Adults £4.60, Family ticket (2 adults and up to 2 children) running shoes on! Contact: www.parkrun.org.uk/sewerby £14.50 Additional child £1.00 Child (up to 15 years) £3.60 Over 65/Concessions £3.60 Additional Information: Participants receive 25% discount on selected drinks and Booking Essential: No just turn up on the day Contact: For further information: 01262 673769 refreshments between 9am and 10am from the Clock Tower Café. Additional Information: Children are welcome, but they must be at least 1.1 metres in height. All visitors (including children) must be able to ascend and descend the stairs unaided. Wear sensible footwear (not flip flops). WC Woldgate Trek Have a go at Horse Riding and join Woldgate Trekking Centre for a one hour trek across beautiful countryside. No experience or equipment needed. WC Pilgrimage of Grace Walk Start Times: 1:00pm – 2:00pm, 2:30pm – 3:30pm, 4:00pm – 5:00pm. Young riders club This will be a circular walk based on Nunburnholme and including up the hill to 9.15am to 12.15am - £20 for morning. trek or lesson included. Londesborough including stunning views of historic aspects of the Wolds and Vale of Meeting Point: Woldgate Trekking Centre Cost: £18 per hour – Family of 4 or more £16 York. Join us and learn about the site of the female priory at Nunburnholme founded per hour, lessons £20 per hour. (CASH ONLY) in 1180 and was noted as being the poorest house in Yorkshire at the dissolution. Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Woldgate on Tel: (01262) 673086 The priory was one of the first to be closed in August 1536 as well as being the first to Additional Information: Arrive 30 minutes before your departure choice. 15 stone weight be reinstated by the rebels in October of that year and had close relations with the limit, parental guidance required for the very young. Disabled welcome. much richer priory at Warter. We will also visit Londesborough and learn about William Thwaites the vicar, who in 1535 prophesied that Henry VIII would be ousted from the throne. The walk will finish at Nunburnholme Church with its lengthy history and WC On your Bike at Spurn Point special relics. Enjoy Spurn National Nature Reserve by bike. Cycle to nearby Kilnsea Wetland Nature Start Time: 10:30am from Nunburnholme Village Green Reserve and explore the local area. Included within our cycle hire is an activity pack, Meeting Point: Park in Nunburnholme village and meet at the village green overlooking helmet and lock. The activity pack includes magnifying glass, binoculars, identification the beck Cost: Free, Optional £3 payable on the day to help the sustainability of the sheets and inspection tray. In addition to this entry to the lighthouse is also included project Booking Essential: Yes (subject to opening times). Enjoy some well-earned refreshments in the discovery center Contact: John Brown on Tel: 01759 302715, [email protected] up on your return. Additional Information: Children over 12 welcome if they are used to walking. No dogs Start Time: Between 10am and 4pm Meeting Point: Available from the Spurn Discovery please. Walking shoes or boots recommended. Centre Cost: £10 per Bike for a full day and £5 per bike for a half day Booking Essential: Advisable to guarantee availability Contact: 01964 650144 or email [email protected] Additional Information: To reach the Spurn Lighthouse and Spurn Point you will need to push bikes over a sandy section at Spurn that we call the wash-over, this takes around 15 minutes. Some identification will be required for bike hire purposes.

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WC The Hedon Town Walk WC Birdsall Charity Ride The Ancient town of Hedon has much to say, and your guide, Tony Porter, has a story to Join Ride Yorkshire for a 10-mile guided ride through the glorious Wolds. We start in the tell round every corner. You will hear of the people and places, pubs and plague along village of Warter and include long stretches of beautiful grassy bridleways along part of with corruption, churches and change. There is a lot more to Hedon than you may think. the Hawold Drovers Road, an ancient east-west route across the Wolds, and ride along The route is all on pavements and roads so has good access. The walk is a gentle stroll, the bottom of one of the deep chalky valleys typical of the area. Other sections are along and is accessible to wheel chair users and push chairs. quiet lanes, mostly with wide verges. There is one very steep uphill section on the ride - but Start Time: 2pm to 3pm Distance: 1.25 Miles Meeting Point: Market Hill car park, it’s only short and the horses love it! Ride Leader: Janet Cochrane. Max. group size 6. Hedon. HU12 8JD Cost: £4 or under 16’s £2 Booking Essential: No just come along Start Time: 10am Distance: 10 Miles Meeting Point: Addlekeld, Warter (YO41 1XR) Hard for the start time Contact: Tony Porter 07763 994060, Facebook: hedonhistorywalks, standing car park Cost: £30 to include light refreshments after a ride Booking Essential: Twitter: @HedonWalks Additional Information: Well behaved dogs welcome. Yes Contact: Booking: [email protected], 07570 112010, or Facebook ‘Ride Yorkshire’ Additional Information: Riders must be competent and in control of their own horses, must wear a riding helmet of the current standard, hi-viz clothing and appropriate footwear, and Peasants, priests and pilgrims must have their own Rider Insurance (details will be requested on registering for the ride). Join Barbara English to look at some Beverley examples of ‘People Power’, this year’s Children are welcome, but we cannot accept unaccompanied riders under 16. national theme for Heritage Open Days. Three examples will be explored, with their locations when possible: the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 (the first great popular rebellion A Walk through Howden’s Past in English history), the ‘Clerical Strike’ of the Minster clergy (also in 1381), and the Pilgrimage of Grace of 1536-7, which began in Yorkshire at Beverley and threatened Steeped in history, the vibrant Georgian market town of Howden is dominated by its Henry VIII’s government, the most serious rebellion of his reign. Minster which overlooks a beautifully preserved town centre with narrow cobbled streets and restored buildings. Join Howden Civic Society for their Blue Plaque Trail and learn a Start Time: 2pm to 3:45pm Meeting Point: Highgate Porch – Beverley Minster little of this town’s history. Cost: Free Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Beverley Tourist Information Centre, The Treasure House, Champney Road, Beverley, HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 Start Time: 2pm Meeting Point: The Market Cross, Howden Market Place, Howden Email: [email protected] Cost: Free Booking Essential: No, just turn up Contact: Tel: 01430 432510 [email protected] if you need any further information. Additional Information: Dogs on a lead welcome. The streets are wheelchair friendly Snapshots of Medieval Beverley around the North Bar but some pavements are narrow. We will trace some of the buildings remaining from the Middle Ages and look at aspects of their construction. This is also a chance to look at the defences of the town. The life of Hockney’s bigger trees and the village of Warter ordinary citizens will be described and some of the many crafts being practised within Join us for an 8 miles walk around the village of Warter, taking in a series of attractive the town. Join Colin Bradshaw to explore a largely lost world. dales - the main one’s being Lavender Dale, Brig Dale and Great Dug Dale. Great Dug Start Time: 10am to 11:30am Meeting Point: We meet at the North Bar (just within) Dale is a favoured area for seeing red kites. We also walk the higher Wold’s and passing Cost: Free Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Beverley Tourist Information Centre, Blanch Farm, which is reputed to be one of the first farnstead’s in the East Riding. The The Treasure House, Champney Road, Beverley, HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 walk also features a subject of a painting by David Hockney ‘Bigger Tree’s’ near Dalton Email: [email protected] Gate Cottage. When the walk is complete there is an opportunity to visit the Wolds Heritage Centre in the church near centre of the village. Start Time: 10am to 1:30pm Distance: 8 Miles Meeting Point: Warter School Car Park/ WC Lost Houses of Risby: Where Henry VIII came to dinner! OS grid SE868 502 Cost: Free Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Please drop an email to Join Mike Waudby for a circular walk of about 6 miles taking in the Risby Park area. walk leader Chris: [email protected] The site of the Hunting Lodge at Cellar Heads (where Henry VIII came to dinner in 1541) and the location of another Risby Hall and its terraced gardens and Folly will be viewed WC The Hedon Haven Walk along the route. A third country house was also planned at Risby, but never completed. Suitable footwear and wet weather gear recommended: this is a country walk over Hedon was created as a port and this walk follows the developments of the waterway gently undulating terrain, unsuitable for those with walking difficulties. The walk is through the ages until its demise, and much more besides such as cow cases, horse linked to Rowley church, where the Ellerkers, for many centuries owners of Risby, were races and hidden places. This is your guide Tony Porter’s favourite walk as it takes you buried. Rowley church and Rowley manor are also opening for Heritage Open Days. to places that not many people get to see, and hear the ‘other’ history of Hedon. The route is over public footpaths with kissing gates and bridges etc. The route can be Start Time: 10am to 12:30am Meeting Point: Outside Sails café at Skidby Mill HU16 muddy after rain so wear suitable foot wear. The walk is a gentle stroll but is not really 5TF (to the west of the A164). Roadside parking is available on Mill Road opposite the accessible to wheelchairs or push chairs. mill entrance and there is a public car park south of the mill. Do not use the restaurant car park. Cost: Free Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Beverley Tourist Information Start Time: 11am to 1pm Distance: 1.5 Miles Meeting Point: Johnson’s Corner car park. Centre, The Treasure House, Champney Road, Beverley, HU17 8HE. Tel: (01482) 391672 HU12 8HP Cost: £4 or under 16’s £2 Booking Essential: No just come along for the Email: [email protected] start time Contact: Tony Porter 07763 994060, Facebook: hedonhistorywalks, Twitter: @HedonWalks Additional Information: Well behaved dogs welcome.

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WC Spurn Safari Fungi Foray at Millington Wood Enjoy a safari at Spurn and enjoy a guided three hour tour looking out for wildlife Explore the woods looking for fungi with expert mycologist Caroline Hobart. Discover and discover more about the fascinating heritage of Yorkshire’s very own ‘Land’s why more fungi appear in autumn, learn how to identify them and have their names End’. Climb aboard the all-terrain Unimog for a tour with a difference. Learn more revealed to you. about the fascinating wildlife and history of this iconic Yorkshire Landmark from a Start Time: 10am to 12:30pm Distance: Up to one miles around the reserve. knowledgeable guide, and climb the newly restored Spurn Lighthouse for incredible Meeting Point: Millington Wood Local Nature Reserve, near Pocklington. YO42 1TZ. views! Spurn promises to be busy this weekend with lots of birders about at the Spurn OS Explorer Map 294, gred ref: SE 838 530 Cost: Adult £3.50, Concessions over 60 & Bird Observatory Migration Festival. under 16 £2.50, Family ticket (up to 2 adults and 3 children) £9 Start Time: 12 noon to finish at 3:00pm. Meeting Point: Spurn Information Centre Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Countryside Access Team, Tel: (01482) 395320 (located on the Nature Reserve) Spurn National Nature Reserve. HU12 0UH (located Online: www.bridspa.com/events - click ‘Venue’ on the dropdown and then select ‘Sports on the Nature Reserve) Grid Reference: TA419149 Cost: £18 Adult, £9 Child. (Parking £5 Play & Countryside Events’. per car). Booking Essential: Yes, please indicate time required. Contact: Book online at www.ywt.org.uk/events or Tel: (01964) 659570. Additional Information: No Dogs, wear warm clothing and sensible footwear. WC On your Bike at Spurn Point Children must be able to walk unaided and climb steep steps. Please arrive 15 minutes Enjoy Spurn National Nature Reserve by bike. Cycle to nearby Kilnsea Wetland Nature before the start. Reserve and explore the local area. Included within our cycle hire is an activity pack, helmet and lock. The activity pack includes magnifying glass, binoculars, identification sheets and inspection tray. In addition to this entry to the lighthouse is also included Swanland Heritage Audio Trail (subject to opening times). Enjoy some well-earned refreshments in the discovery centre It is Heritage weekend so we are combining the Walking festival with a tour of the up on your return. heritage of Swanland Village. An audio file can be downloaded for people to use on Start Time: Between 10am and 4pm Meeting Point: Available from the Spurn Discovery their own or a guide will be available to take you through the tour. Refreshments are Centre Cost: £10 per Bike for a full day and £5 per bike for a half day available from 2 pm at Swanland Village Hall (donations to the Heritage Centre). In Booking Essential: Advisable to guarantee availability Contact: 01964 650144 or email case of inclement weather and for those less energetic, Swanland Village Hall will be [email protected] Additional Information: To reach the Spurn Lighthouse and Spurn open for a slideshow to show a virtual tour of the village and the historic buildings etc. Point you will need to push bikes over a sandy section at Spurn that we call the wash-over, For the Audio tour please download the file from https://swanlandheritage.info/406. this takes around 15 minutes. Some identification will be required for bike hire purposes. html – headphones are recommended when taking the walk Start Time: 1pm to 5pm Distance: 2-5 Miles Meeting Point: Swanland Heritage Centre, The Institute, by the Pond, Swanland. WC Woldgate Trek Cost: Free, with donations for tea/coffee Have a go at Horse Riding and join Woldgate Trekking Centre for a one hour trek across Booking Essential: Booking for the guided walk is recommended beautiful countryside. No experience or equipment needed. Contact: Yvonne Dumsday. Tel: 01482 634863. E: [email protected] Additional Information: Dogs are welcome during the walk, but only assistance dogs in Start Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm, 2:30pm – 3:30pm, 4:00pm – 5:00pm. Young riders club the Hall please. The Hall is wheelchair and pushchair accessible, but some pavements/ 9.15am to 12.15am - £20 for morning. trek or lesson included. paths may be restricted. Be aware of your surroundings at all time. Meeting Point: Woldgate Trekking Centre Cost: £18 per hour – Family of 4 or more £16 per hour, lessons £20 per hour. (CASH ONLY) Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Woldgate on Tel: (01262) 673086 WC Geocaching Treasure Hunt Additional Information: Arrive 30 minutes before your departure choice. 15 stone weight limit, parental guidance required for the very young. Disabled welcome. Join the countryside access team and take part in a special geocaching treasure hunt. Borrow our GPS units to explore the Humber Bridge Country Park and follow a trail along the Yorkshire Wolds Way from Hessle Foreshore, discovering hidden boxes on the way. Start Time: 10am to 2pm Distance: 1.5 miles Meeting Point: Humber Bridge Country Park Local Nature Reserve, outside the Tourist Information Centre in the Humber Bridge car park, HU13 0LN. OS Explorer Map 293, grid ref: TA 023 253. Public toilets available. Cost: £5 per group (1 to 6 people) with a minimum of 1 adult per group. Each group will have use of a GPS unit. Booking Essential: Yes Contact: Countryside Access Team, Tel: (01482) 395320 Online: www.bridspa.com/events - click ‘Venue’ on the dropdown and then select ‘Sports Play & Countryside Events’.

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www.eastriding.gov.uk HULL OLD TOWN WALK AND Countryside Walking Join tour guide Paul Schofield to discover the heritage of this wonderful City, with its historic old 2019 for Health Events TURN TO PAGE 47 quarter, local museums and attractions. Soak up the ambience and culture of a city that has its feet Walks Wildlife Watching Events Conservation and Crafts firmly rooted in history and its eyes looking to the future. www.tourhull.com KIDS GO WILD SPONSORED BY www.eastriding.gov.uk/health-checks Start Time: 2pm everyday Meeting Point: Box Office, City Hall. Hull Cost: £4 per person Contact: Paul Schofield, email: [email protected], Tel: 01482 878535. Booking Essential: No, just turn up Additional Information: Tour guide Keith Daddy and Mike Rymer will be leading some walks.

Paul Schofield, City Tour Guide, Hull & East Yorkshire Paul is a freelance English Heritage IT’S ONLY NATURAL TO ENJOY THE COUNTRYSIDE! Accredited tour guide who specialises There are plenty of special places to visit in the games and activities. Guides are available from in the heritage of the City of Hull East Riding countryside and with a wow factor Tourist Information Centres or follow the link and the market town of Beverley. of being outdoors, here are just some of the to www.eastriding.gov.uk/events and select For the last 31 years, Paul has been ways you can get closer to nature. brochure for Countryside 2019 or ring 01482 seen out and about in all weathers 395320 heading a group of visitors around Nature reserves can be used by all ages, and and uncovering the hidden treasure abilities and are excellent places to explore, go Why not take a trip down one of the East these two towns have to offer. The wildlife spotting or play adventure games. Riding’s four disused rail trails, Hull to Hornsea, experience is truly enhanced by Paul’s Go to yorkshirenaturetriangle.org for lots Hull to Withernsea, Beverley to Market depth of knowledge of the area, its more ideas. Weighton and Market Weighton to history, architecture and people. are ideal routes to use either for a short stroll, Visit one of East Ridings Local Nature Reserves family walk or as part of a long distance route. Paul has been awarded the inaugural including The Humber Bridge Country Park, They are criss-crossed by public paths and you Tourism Enterprise Award and the a 48 acre wood with open meadows and can use the routes to make up some excellent “extramile” certificate. He is the only wildlife ponds. The distinctive chalk cliffs which short circular walks.The rail trails can be used by double winner of the Remarkable surround the park on three sides, give to the walkers, cyclists and horse riders, but motorbikes Yorkshire Passion Award at the Visit park’s local name of Little Switzerland. The are not permitted. Hull and East Yorkshire Tourism Awards bright white chalk cliffs were said to resemble in 2010 and 2016, and was also a miniature snow covered Alps. Alternatively you The East Riding has a number of picnic sites runner up in this year’s Travel and can visit Millington Wood, a 52 acre ancient ash where you can enjoy some alfresco dining. Tourism Superstar. wood set within a Yorkshire Wolds valley. Our main sites include Bracey Bridge, , Wayrham and Towthorpe. For a comprehensive list of Paul walks, Pick up a leaflet from one of East Yorkshires view his website at www.tourhull.com Tourist Information Centre. Please visit walkingtheriding.co.uk website for more information or alternatively: You can book onto a countryside event, where www2.eastriding.gov.uk/leisure/countryside- you can learn about new places, how the and-walks/places-to-visit/other-places-to- natural world works, get your hands dirty with visit/ some practical work or enjoying environmental

54 www.theyorkshirewolds.com www.theyorkshirewolds.com 55 Unlock Secret Art along the Yorkshire Wolds Way and discover poetry and paintings in the landscape. WALK THE WOLDS This inspirational project uses an app to reveal the hidden art of the Yorkshire Wolds. The Wolds are perfect walking country. The well-drained landscape is You can find the painting of local artists who usually dry underfoot and the gentle hills offer a range of walks to suit demonstrate their love of the Wolds through any ability, with gorgeous views thrown in. their art. www.yorkshirewoldssecretart.co.uk Taking you right through the heart of the lovely You will also find more Yorkshire Wolds Way Wolds the 79 miles of the Yorkshire Wolds walks on the Top Ten Experiences website – Way National Trail stretch from Hessle on the top10trails.com. River Humber in the south, to the beautiful Alternatively pick up the Top 10 Experiences beaches and Edwardian splendour of Filey on booklet at one of East Yorkshires Tourist the Yorkshire coast. If you fancy enhancing the Information Centres. challenge a little further hop off at Filey and onto the 109 mile Cleveland Way, which takes Other long distance walks include the Minster you up the spectacular North Yorkshire Coast Way, a spectacular 50 miles that separates and inland across the North York Moors to two internationally important and inspiring Helmsley. Churches, the Minsters at Beverley and York. Go to minsterway.btck.co.uk for more information. nationaltrail.co.uk/Yorkshire-wolds-way and Then there is the Chalkland Way, beginning and nationaltrail.co.uk/Cleveland-way ending at the lovely market town of Pocklington. If its short walks for a few hours or a day that This 40 mile circular route takes in some of the you enjoy, then the Yorkshire Wolds Way website area’s prettiest villages: chalklandway.btck.co.uk has great “Try a Trail” walks that you can print off, with maps and directions.

NORTH SEA East Riding of Yorkshire Flamborough Headland York Vale of Pickering Hunmanby Heritage Coast ‘Do-it-Yourself’ heritage trails on the What Was Malton/Norton FREE ‘What Was Here?’ smartphone app from East Riding Archives Here Bridlington Sledmere Journey to the heart of Beverley and Bridlington, and Your window to the past Bridlington turn your mobile device into a virtual time machine Bay Stamford Driffield as you explore historic images from the town’s past. Bridge Beverley covers an area of 1.5 miles around Toll Gavel, Key to Routes Saturday Market, Wednesday Market and finishes at YORK Yorkshire Beckside. In Bridlington you will explore 2.5 miles around Pocklington Coast Line Hornsea Yorkshire Wolds Way the Harbour, the Spa and Princes Parade. railway Chalkland Way Market Travel from point-to-point using the app as your guide Weighton Minster Way Beverley and to view each vintage photograph around the Rail Links Vale of York location in which it was taken! Holderness Walkers are Welcome towns Always be careful of your surroundings when using the Selby HULL Withernsea app. Tap ‘View trails and find ‘Beverley’ and ‘Bridlington’ on the list. Hessle R Snaith iv e FREE to download on Google Play & the App Store r Humber H (search ‘ what was here ‘ ) u Bridge m b East Coast e 10 km r Mainline railway Spurn Ferry to Rotterdam Heritage 6 miles and Zeebrugge Coast

56 www.theyorkshirewolds.com www.theyorkshirewolds.com 57 Heritage Trail The Pilgrimage of Grace CYCLE THE WOLDS This trail runs for 11½ miles from Wharram-le- Cycle Ride Street in the west to Foxholes in the east. In This 17 mile circular heritage route with some the nine Wolds villages interpretation panels Whether you are a serious cyclist or prefer a leisurely ride, using two spectacular views of the Yorkshire Wolds links describe the geology, archaeology, heritage and places with a connection to the 1536 rebellion wheels gives you the freedom to make the most of the rolling Yorkshire wildlife along the , Britain’s most against Henry VIII. The route is way marked northerly chalk stream. Use the trail to explore Wolds countryside and coast at your own pace. with a penny farthing symbol incorporating the this fascinating part of the Yorkshire Wolds. Big Skies Bike Rides Yorkshire Wolds Cycle Route heritage badge. Trans Pennine Trail A route map and historic background notes A great selection of circular day rides (17- 24 Follow the 146 well signed miles of the Yorkshire The Trans Pennine Trail runs coast to Coast for are available from [email protected]. miles) across the Yorkshire Wolds on quiet Wolds Cycle Route, taking in a variety of scenery 215 miles between Hornsea and Southport. Touch screen information outside Pocklington country lanes and cycle paths for some of the from the dramatic cliffs of Flamborough Head, Cycle it, walk it, ride it but most of all enjoy it. Arts Centre and Warter Heritage Centre. If you country’s best big skies and back roads cycling the parklands of Sledmere and medieval transpenninetrail.org.uk undertake this ride we would appreciate your at a slower pace. Beverley. Perfect for a cycle touring break that’s feedback. Vista boards are along the route. You can literally see for miles across this gently ideal for novices and adventurous families. More Cycle Maps details from cycleyorkshirewolds.com rolling and colourful chalkland landscape or be There are now circular cycle rides leaflets winding your way through a hidden valley – just The Yorkshire Wolds circular route includes available for Driffield, Beverley, Pocklington, some of the features painted by David Hockney parts of the popular coast to Bridlington, Goole and South Holderness. who himself first discovered the Yorkshire Wolds coast route between Morecambe in Lancashire Copies are available at Tourist Information on a bike. All the routes are downloadable for and Bridlington which is gaining international Centres. free visithullandeastyorkshire.com recognition attracting cyclists from around the You can put your bike on a train to reach the globe. wayoftheroses.info for more details Alternatively call 01482 391747 or email rides from Beverley, Bridlington, Driffield, These routes are all part of the National Cycle [email protected] Hunmanby and Malton, where (apart from Network, a series of safe, traffic-free paths Hunmanby) there are bike shops. and quiet on-road cycling and walking routes that connect to every major town and city now © Chris Bailey stretching to over 14,000 miles - sustrans.org.uk

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N The sculpture was made by a IO UN stones. His family had been in business as masons in Pocklington for former Art Master at Pocklington NE over 150 years. More recent display boards add further recognition of LA THE School, Pete Edwards in 2005 LOO some of the people and events. ALL WATER FEATHERS to commemorate 100 years SAINTS CHAPMANGATE of the gardens. Major Stewart POCKLINGTON CHURCH taught at Pocklington School CLARKE’S LANE prior to embarking on a series of 4 2 worldwide travels during which 5 From the Post Office cross Market Street and turn and walk left. The he collected exotic plants and 6 pavement and row of shops curves rightward, enter Waterloo Lane for DEAN’S LANE a short distance, turn sharp left in front of the greengrocers (notice the animals. He and his wife began PAV EM splendid signwriting above the entrance). Then sharp right into Clarke’s establishing the gardens from E TH GRAPE LANE N Lane. Follow the lane into the churchyard through the gates. 1905 after he bought the hall. The SCAIFE GAR T gardens were bequeathed in trust to the town by Major Stewart 7 MARKET PLACEPOCKLINGTON and his wife. They now include a ARTS CENTRE 4 famous collection of water lilies, a museum and a café. REGENT STREET Look straight up at the east wall of the church. Read the dedication to RAILWAY STREET Thomas Pelling, the flying man. Thomas was a travelling showman and NEW STREET acrobat of some renown in the country. His personal challenge was to Leave the gardens via the main descend from the top of the church tower to the ground via a tight gates, turn right and walk towards rope. Sadly, his assistant in charge of the rope allowed some slack and the town bearing right at the Thomas killed himself on impact against the choir wall. He was buried junction of Regent Street and where he fell in April 1733 and became famous as the Flying Man of New Street. Proceed along New 8 LIBRARY AND SOUTH PARADE Pocklington. Street until you reach Dean’s Lane; CUSTOMER cast a glance a few yards further SERVICE CENTRE STATION ROAD along to the former National G From the grave follow the churchyard path round to the church School with its 1854 plaque H WEST GREEN entrance on the south wall. clearly visible, now converted into BUS housing. Go through Dean’s Lane STATION into the Market Square. 5

CEMETERY LANE ROBINSON CLOSE Enter All Saints church, known as the Cathedral of the Wolds. Look BURNBY 2 HALL GARDENS for the upper remnants of the Sotheby Cross in the North transept. This is a churchyard preaching cross commemorating the visit in AD The Jubilee Monument stands 627 of Paulinus to the area during his visit he baptised the population proudly in the centre, clearly in the beck which flows next to the churchyard. This particular cross visible despite the parking around 1 was erected by the Sotheby family (ancestors of the famous Sotheby THE BALK its base. It was erected in 1897 by Fine Art Sale Rooms) circa 1400. The Sotheby Cross possibly replaced a Saxon Paulinus cross. A Tudor cross stands in the churchyard, the the local council to commemorate 10 Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. 9 original brought back by the Denison family, The Lords of the Manor. The monument was paid for by While in the church note the fine carvings on the North side pillar public subscription. A panel was tops; the memorials to members of the Dolman and Sotheby families added in 2012 to mark Queen and the splendid early 16thcentury Denison Triptych in the Lady Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee. Bear right from the Market Square past the Feathers Hotel and then Chapel, carved on the continent and brought back to record the left across the entrance to Union Street. The Post Office should be importance of the Denison family. visible set back a little from Market Street.

60 www.theyorkshirewolds.com www.theyorkshirewolds.com 61 Leave the churchyard via the steps to the western Cross West Green via the pedestrian crossing. Turn gate onto Pavement. Bear half right across a small right and follow the path for approximately 400 yards car park to the pedestrian crossing. Cross George reaching the new Beckside Surgery on your left across Street and turn left. the Pocklington Beck. Turn into Amos Drive. Look along the rear of the surgery building and under a protective canopy is an aircraft engine. 6 9 On the South facing wall of the shop number 1 George Street look up to see the Sundial, the heritage board which includes a replica of Watson’s The Merlin aircraft engine was unearthed in 2015 map of Pocklington. William Watson, a nationally during the excavations for the foundations of Beckside famous sundial manufacturer and mapmaker who Surgery. It comes from a Halifax Bomber which lived on George Street. Watson was a self educated crashed on returning from a mission over Germany. man who established the principles by which sundials The crew were killed on impact. The families of the East Yorkshire has an abundance of charming and historic Market Towns rich work. The book which elucidated those principles crew members were contacted and attended the in heritage and culture. Choose from a range of do any time walks of varying was published by Forths of Pocklington in 1854. dedication of the engine as a memorial. Pocklington lengths and enjoy a stroll around one of our picturesque Market Towns. Admire the Pause a while to work out the real time according to has substantial connections with the RAF squadrons the instructions on display. who flew during the Second World War from RAF architecture and learn more about the fascinating History and the stories behind Pocklington (now the local industrial estate) and the buildings. Have a break and stop of for refreshments and indulge in some several other local airfields. The dedication is in the reception area of the surgery. tasty treats or peruse around a wide range of independent shops. About turn and cross Scaife Garth to the entrance Why not make a day of it with a visit to one of our Historic Houses, Museums of the WWII memorial garden. and Gardens. From the surgery retrace your steps along West Green almost as far as the pedestrian crossing turn right into Log onto visithullandeastyorkshire.com/walking-the-town.aspx Using the 7 Cemetery Lane. Follow Cemetery Lane for its full map, click on the footprint of the Market Town you would like to visit. Download length and turn right into the Cemetery entrance. The a PDF of your chosen walk. Enter the garden between the flower beds. The Cemetery house and two former chapels have been memorial is at the head of the short path. An converted into residences. Go past these into the ‘Old additional tablet lists the names of Pocklington men Cemetery’ to your left. ALTERNATIVELY, continue along killed in different actions since the end of the 1939- Amos Drive, noting that the street names on this estate 45 war. commemorate airman from RAF Pocklington who lost their lives in WWII . You should then see the posts marking a public right of way, take the left hand section and follow the tarmac path into the rear of the ‘new’ Leave the garden, turning right and bearing right into cemetery. Follow the path into the ‘old’ cemetery. West Green. Go past Wilberforce House and the ERYC carpark entrance to reach Pocklington School, founded by John Dolman in 1514 as a grammar school for clergy and lawyers. John Dolman was a 10 Pocklington man who made his fortune as a lawyer and church man. The Old Cemetery. Among the many bold and dramatic statues and gravestones there are several noting the names of long established Pocklington 8 families? In the farthest corner with an Ivy bush growing against it is a memorial to a Scaife who is actually buried in Russia. Ponder the number of very Visible from the footpath is the statue dedicated to young children dying before their fifth birthday. William Wilberforce. The statue was carved by the nationally famous York based sculptor, Sally Arnup. Wilberforce was a pupil at Pocklington School between 1771 and 1776. While there he began his Leave the cemetery past the former chapels; writings opposing slavery. The Slave Trade Act was pass between the two supermarkets towards the passed in 1807 and slaves were freed in 1833. The roundabout. Bear right, cross The Balk with care and statue was erected in 2007. re-enter Burnby Gardens.

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Your opportunity to walk the trail! Bridlington Bay London Stamford Driffield Friday 6th September to Tuesday 10th September Bridge Key to Routes YORK Yorkshire Pocklington Coast Line Hornsea Minster Way railway Rail Links The Minster Way is a splendid 50 Join us on this unique opportunity Market Weighton Beverley Walkers are Welcome towns mile route that links the two famous to walk the trail in five stages over Vale of York medieval Minsters of York and Beverley, five days during the Yorkshire Wolds Holderness crossing farmland and the chalk hills Walking Festival in September 2019. Selby HULL Withernsea of the Yorkshire Wolds. Starting from The first stage will be on Friday 6th Hessle R Snaith iv , the route heads along September, starting at York Minster, e r Humber H the old streets of York and along the with the last stage on Tuesday 10th u Bridge m b banks of the River Ouse to Fulford. September, finishing at Beverley East Coast e 10 km r Mainline railway Spurn The trail continues past the edge of Minster. Coach transport is organised Ferry to Rotterdam Heritage 6 miles and Zeebrugge Elvington Airfield with its Air Museum, to take the group from the finish to Coast to Kexby and Stamford Bridge, the site start of the walk each day. This walk of a bloody battle between Saxons and has been organised by Pocklington Vikings - the last Saxon victory before Ramblers and experienced walks THE ITINERARY losing to the Duke of Normandy, better leaders will guide the group on each Friday 6th York Minster Kexby known as William the Conqueror. After daily section. Saturday 7th Kexby Bishop Wilton Stamford Bridge, the route travels through the villages of , Sunday 8th Bishop Wilton before reaching the start Monday 9th Huggate Kilnwick of the Wolds at Bishop Wilton. The Tuesday 10th Kilnwick Beverley Minster crossing of the Yorkshire Wolds from west to east, is attractive and has some steep ascents and descents, Each day will involve walking between 8 and 12 miles. There will be some passing through , steep ascents and descents and some rough terrain. A good level of fitness is Millington, and Huggate before the required to complete all sections of the trail. descent to . The Minster Way continues through the villages HOW TO BOOK To reserve your place contact: of Bainton, Lockington, Booking is essential for this walk and Beverley Tourist Information Centre and (all names revealing Saxon is limited to 30 places. There will be First Floor, East Riding Treasure House origins). The final part of the walk leads a charge of £25 per person to cover Beverley, HU17 8HE us into the attractive town of Beverley, coach transport for five days. Tel: (01482) 391672 and our journeys end, at Beverley (Payable at the point of booking). Email: [email protected] Minster.

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Beverley TouristInformation Centre Tourist Information at (Open all year) Withernsea and Hornsea East Riding Treasure House, Hosted by Museum staff during opening Champney Road hours, Easter - end of September. 01482 391672 Located at: [email protected] Withernsea Lighthouse, Hull Road, Bridlington Tourist Information Centre Withernsea HU19 2DY. (Open all year) Hornsea Museum, Burns Farm, East Riding Leisure – Bridlington, 11-17 Newbegin, Hornsea, HU18 1AB The Promenade, Bridlington YO15 2QQ Tourist Information Points 01482 391634 Bainton, Wolds Village, YO25 9EF [email protected] Malton, Ryedale District Council Offices, Humber Bridge Tourist Information Centre YO17 7HH (Open all year) Langlands Gardens Centre, York Road North Bank Viewing Area, Ferriby Road, York YO43 3PN Hessle HU13 0LN Pocklington Arts Centre, YO42 2AR 01482 640852 Warter, Wolds Heritage Centre, YO42 1SR [email protected] Howden Shire Hall, 11 -13 Market Place, Howden DN14 7BJ Hull (City of Culture)Information POD c/o Hull Paragon Interchange Hull, HU1 3UT We hope you enjoy the festival. 01482 300300 (option 2) Don’t forget to use #WoldsFest19 [email protected] on you facebook and twitter posts!

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