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Map © Crown Copyright 2011. All rights reserved. Licence 0100031673 Published by VHEY (from the Big Skies Bike Rides guide) – www.visithullandeastyorkshire.com 6 Great Wold 1km (0.6mile) Valley 1 Head north past 21.1 miles (34km) the church, bearing L uphill. Turn L after from Hunmanby mini-roundabout (1 Yorkshire Wolds Just inland from Filey Bay, Hunmanby was once one of the 12 market route signing). towns in the East Riding and still retains its own station on the Yorkshire Coast Railway line. From here you visit small villages and hamlets as you 1 ride around the broad swathe of the Great Wold Valley and either side 13 At the mini- of the Gypsey Race – the only, albeit intermittent, surface stream on the roundabout turn R Wolds. Thwing takes its name from the Scandinavian language, meaning for the station or L ‘strip of high land’, there’s an art gallery at Willerby Wold Farm (Wed- 13 for the village Sun), while Fordon has what must be one of the tiniest churches. A centre. shortcut via Wold Newton (with a pub) is shown on the map. 2 old Newton © Cooper Douglas Village green & duck pond, W 10 2 Turn R at crossroads then first L towards Burton 9 10 Go SA at X-roads 11 Go SA at X-roads. Fleming. (take extra care), and To see tiny church descend to where dry turn R for a short valleys converge at distance. 9 At Ganton Wold Forden hamlet. Farm, turn R. P 11 © Alan Green oppies near Foxholes Big Skies Ride info 12 Grade: Moderate · All on road Start/finish: Village centre off-street parking area just behind main street 8 Go SA at X-roads, and Market Cross near pubs. From follow road round 12 Turn L at X-roads railway station turn R into village into village and turn to return to centre Church at Forden © Cooper Douglas R. Turn first L Hunmanby. towards Ganton. Refreshments: Choice in Hunmanby; pub and shops in Burton Fleming; pub in Thwing; coffee shop in art gallery at Willerby Wold Farm. Opening times vary 8 Public loos: None 3 4 Turn R following 3 SA at X-roads in brown Byway sign. Burton Fleming onto Thwing Road. 7 4 7 At Octon Grange go SA and slow down for sharp L- hand bend. Or for shortcut, turn R. 5 Bear R into Thwing village. Turn L at staggered X- 6 At the T-jct turn R 5 roads, then R onto through Octon and Octon Road. downhill to Octon PDF compression, OCR, webGrange. optimization6 using a watermarked evaluation copy of CVISION PDFCompressor.