Muston Scarecrow Festival

As keen walkers ourselves, we can highly recommend the region for offering a variety of walks to suit everyone's tastes from coastal to forest to moorland landscapes.   If you'd like help planning a walking itinerary, then let us know and we'd be glad to assist.

Yorkshire Wolds Walks

The gently undulating landscape of the Yorkshire Wolds embraces riverside, woodland, farms, tiny villages, market towns and historic sites. Its chalky geology provides a beautiful landscape to explore on foot.     

        Yorkshire Wolds, Spring 2005

Long Distance Walks

East and North Yorkshire are home to several long distance walks which traverse the countryside and coast.

• The Wolds Way: 79 miles between Hessle and Filey through chalk valleys and historic parkland

       www.nationaltrail.co.uk/yorkshirewoldsway

• The Minster Way: 50 miles between York and Beverley through farmland and woodland

• Chalkland Way: 40 mile circular route from Pocklington through several Wolds villages

• The Cleveland Way: 109 miles between Helmsley and Filey through the Yorkshire Moors national park

       www.nationaltrail.co.uk/clevelandway

A useful website with both long and short routes to help you to enjoy the varied countryside of East Yorkshire is: http://www.walkingtheriding.co.uk/home/

Coastal Walks

Let the fresh sea air invigorate you and blow the cobwebs away.  There are numerous walks which will show you the magnificent views out to sea along the cliff tops.

        Yorkshire coast, Winter 2006

Yorkshire Moors

The Yorkshire Moors National Park is easily accessible from Manor Farmhouse where walks of varying lengths and landscapes can be enjoyed.

            Yorkshire Moors heather in bloom

Last updated: 08 August 2011                                                                   Website created and designed by Susan and Richard Fulcher