Yorkshire Wolds Way a Tra i l ... NATIONAL TRAIL Tr y – Market Weighton meander 7.5 miles (12.1km) – easy circular walk 1 From Market Weighton head 7 Turn right at the kissing gate Walking from along the A1079 road and after onto the farm road. Market the last house on the right turn right along the Yorkshire Wolds 8 Cross the busy A163 with care Weighton Way. and go past the picnic site and along the farm track. 2 Follow the path across the field and then along the field 9 Turn left on the track and headlands. continue to follow it through to Goodmanham. 3 Cross the road and follow the track passing Towthorpe Grange 10 At Goodmanham turn left on and through the site of the the main road and then first right deserted village. following the minor road for about 0.75 mile. 4 Turn left at the road and then right onto the track into 11 Turn right on the disused Londesborough Park. railway line (Hudson Way) and 6 follow the old line back to Market 5 5 As the Yorkshire Wolds Way Weighton. forks, turn left to visit Londesborough village. 12 Follow the surfaced path into Station Road, then Churchside to 6 Having seen the village turn bring you back to the High Street. back along the same path into Londesborough Park and this 4 time at the fork in the Yorkshire Market Weighton Wolds Way turn left and follow meander the path crossing the lakes and 7 climbing through the Park. Start in Market Weighton OS Grid SE 878 417 Distance 7.5 miles (12.1km) Height gain 390 ft (120m) Terrain Field edge paths, old railway 8 lines and pleasant estate pasture. Some sections can be muddy after wet weather Refreshments and public toilets Pubs, shops, cafes and toilets in Market Weighton. Goodmanham Arms at 3 Goodmanham open for drinks, 9 lunchtime and evening How to get there Market Weighton lies on the A1079 between York and Beverley. There is a regular bus service between York, Beverley and Hull calling 10 at Market Weighton – phone Traveline on 0871 200 22 33 for details 11 0 1km (0.6mile) 2 12 Other short walks on the Yorkshire Wolds way can be found on www.nationaltrail.co.uk/yorkshirewoldsway/Planning a trip 1 Map reproduced from Ordnance Survey digital map data © Crown Copyright 2007 All rights reserved Licence number 100018881 © Natural England 2007 Yorkshire Wolds Way a Tra i l ... NATIONAL TRAIL Tr y – Market Weighton meander 7.5 miles (12.1km) – easy circular walk This circuit has perhaps the greatest Birthplace of Northern be burned, and offered to do Christianity – When you visit the this himself, realising that others concentration of fascinating historical little Norman church in the feared the consequences of activity anywhere on the Yorkshire Wolds centre of Goodmanham, try to such action. He borrowed a imagine the drama that took horse and a war axe and upon Way. Walk it and absorb the heritage. place on this very spot in the 7th reaching the temple flung the century, heralding the advent of weapon into it. Seeing that no Christianity in the north of ill befell him, his followers set The Market Weighton Giant – Londesborough and George England. A heathen temple once about demolishing the shrine William Bradley, born in 1787, Hudson – the Railway King – stood here when in AD 626 and setting fire to the temple. grew his way into the Guinness Although only a shadow of its Edwin, the Saxon King of And so it was that the Venerable Book of Records as England’s former glory, Londesborough Northumbria held a great Bede came to describe Tallest Man, measuring 7ft 9 Park is one of the most pleasant council to consider the new ‘Goodmundingham’ as it was inches tall and weighing 27 spots along the Yorkshire Wolds Christian religion. His High then called as ‘this one time stone. His name remains in the Way. In the 19th Century it Priest Coifi advised that the place of idols’. book to this day, and must be belonged to George Hudson, the temple at Goodmanham should one record that nobody is too infamous Railway King. keen to beat. The poor man was Originally a draper, in 1827 a celebrated fairground Hudson invested a £30,000 attraction throughout England inheritance in railway shares until his death at the age of 33 and helped to gain parlia- and Market Weighton still mentary approval for the York celebrates these dizzy heights. and North Midlands Railway. As Bradley’s extra large chair is still Lord Mayor of York, he made the in the Londesborough Arms, his city the railway capital of local pub, and a plaque of his England and having made his footprint is displayed in the own fortune by this time, town at the top of Linegate. bought the Londesborough Estate, where he constructed his own private railway station, on the York – Market Weighton line. Market Weighton meander route profile www.nationaltrail.co.uk/yorkshirewoldsway Market Weighton is a Walkers are Welcome town. Find out more at www.walkersarewelcome.org.uk.