Walk 15 Useful contacts City of York Council Walks in York Public Rights of Way team: Tel: 01904 551550 ASKHAM RICHARD, Email: [email protected] BILBROUGH & York Tourist Informatiion Tel: 01904 550099 ASKHAM BRYAN York Travel Line Tel: 01904 551400 is about half a mile from the Roman road Walk 15 which runs between York and Tadcaster. Being on a moraine about 150 feet above sea Askham Richard Via Bilborough, level, the village commands extensive views Copmanthorp and Askham Bryan over the flat vale of York. Distance: 6½ miles Time: 3 hours. Askham Byran is situated south west of York Stiles: 11 and is 1 mile from its neighbour Askham Gates: 4 Richard. St Nicholas’ Church in the Parking: Askham Richard, School Lane village is an ancient Norman Public Transport: Coastliner Buses to Church dating from the 12th Tadcaster Century. Recorded in the No.87. (Hutchinson’s Buses) Doomsday Book of 1086 the village has always been a traditional farming settlement. Askham Richard is situated within the York is thought to have derived from Ascam or The building of the York Outer Greenbelt about 7 miles south west of York off ascha possible meaning ‘enclosure of the ash- Ring Road significantly reduced the York – Leeds A64 Road. The land has been tree’. The largest building in the village is the flow of traffic through the village which occupied for over a thousand years and its Askham Grange with a distinctive tower and remains rural in character. name is thought to have been derived from Victorian and Edwardian architectural features. Richard, an Earl of Cornwall who owned land The building has been government owned Askham Richard Village Design in the area. The ‘Askham’ element of the name since 1947 and is a women’s open prison. Statement 2005 Askham Bryan Village Design Like Askham Richard, Bilbrough is a small, yet Statement 2006 ancient settlement and was listed in the www.bilbrough.org.uk Doomsday Book. A small farming village, it has Copmanthorpe, Appleton Roebuck resisted large scale modern development Acaster Malbis, Acaster Selby typical of some villages around York. Bilbrough Walks in York ASKHAM RICHARD, BILBROUGH & ASKHAM BRYAN 4 Immediately before the road, turn right, staying within the field along its edge to reach a short section of path enclosed by fencing and then a stile by a metal signpost. Cross the stile out onto the road. Cross the road and then walk over the A64 1 flyover on the footway. Once over the A64, follow the road around a long sweeping From School Lane, Askham Richard curve to the right until a blue bridleway sign is reached on the left. Follow this path 2 turn right just before the pond and walk down the slope onto the Ebor Way which follows the course of an old Roman Road. Carry on down Mill Lane to the junction with York Follow this route over three field boundaries, keeping straight ahead past a footbridge straight down this Road. Turn right and continue along York on your left, until you emerge via a wooden gate onto a lane. This is Hagg Lane. Carry road past a large farm Road, passing Seakel Lane on the right, on straight ahead along the lane towards the village of Copmanthorpe. called ‘Normans’ and before taking the next turning on the left. as the road bends to the right, take the public footpath which 6 leaves the road on the Askham Bryan corner just past C h a Sandwith Cottage on p e l the left. Continue L a n ahead along the e footpath, which runs Seakel Lane between a line of 2 1 Askham Richard 5 trees, until you reach On reaching the two large stone gate houses of posts. Cross the fence Copmanthorpe turn and then pass left along Manor Normans diagonally left across Heath, crossing back the next field to the over the A64, and right side of the hill 5 proceed on to a heading for a metal roundabout. Taking gate and brick wall. care to look both ways Pass over the stile and Copmanthorpe follow the roundabout the gap next to the A64 round to the left and gate and walk along continue along the the enclosed track to Hagg Lane next road signed for emerge onto a road in 3 Bilbrough Askham Bryan the village of (Askham Fields Lane). Bilbrough. After about half a mile turn left along York 4 Road towards Askham Richard, then take the next right turn and follow Chapel Lane into Askham Bryan. On reaching the village turn left along Main 3 Street and walk Cross the road and continue straight ahead up Main Street through the village. towards the church. After passing the church, turn right through a CopyRight OS maps.doc metal gate, follow the footpath through the church yard to another metal gate and then pass through a squeeze stile to the right of a brick building. On leaving the church yard, continue, bearing left following 6 the path across the field passing a pond on your right. A little further When the road turns to the right, carry on straight along head left towards the fence and hedge and cross a stile. Turn ahead along a stoned track following the footpath signposted right down the side of the field heading towards a coniferous wood Askham Richard. Follow this track through a gate and along a ahead on the right. Just before a stile, in the corner of the field, turn left field edge, crossing two stiles at one field boundary and then and follow the path along the field edge. After about 200m, cross to following the edge of a wood to another stile. Bearing left, cut the opposite side of the field boundary though a gap and continue in diagonally across the next field using the telegraph pole as a the same direction towards a road. guide. At the end of the field cross a further two stiles either side of a stone bridge. Continue on, keeping the field boundary to your right, through another field then on to an enclosed path that leads, over a stile, back into the village of Askham Richard..