Distance: 4 miles Time to complete walk: 2.5 hours
Safety Tips: The part of the walk just before you enter Lastingham has a very sharp decline. Take care if there has been wet weather and when using the stepping stones to go over the beck make sure they are safe to walk on first.
A walk from the charming village of Hutton-le-Hole, which includes fields and woodland areas. The walk passes through the peaceful village of Lastingham and a detour to the church, which includes a Norman crypt is highly recommended. Both Hutton-le-Hole and Lastingham have some very nice places to eat so a pitstop either at the end of the walk or mid way through the walk are also highly recommended. There are some steep declines along the way so a walking stick will come in handy particularly after rainfall. A visit to the open air museum the Ryedale Folk Museum in Hutton-le-Hole is also a recommendation.
The Hutton-Le-Hole walk
Getting There
From Middlesbrough, go to the top of Ormesby Bank and then head towards Stokesley. At the roundabout just outside Stokesley follow the B1257 to Great Broughton and follow it all the way to Helmsley. When you arrive at Helmsley take the turning to Scarborough which is the A170. Follow this road and look for the turn off for Hutton-le-Hole which is a left turning shortly after you pass through Kirbymoorside. Follow the road through Hutton-le-Hole and parking can be found at a right turning on the edge of the village, the parking is £4.50 for a longer stay if over 2 hours.
Map of the Hutton-le-Hole walk
The Walk
From the car park follow the road back to pass a pub and the Ryedale Folk Museum. Look for the chapel and look for a well hidden signpost on the left just after it. Its easy to miss, its a small gate.
Footpath Sign
Keep to the path and walk past keeping to the left of the bowling green. Cross a series of fields on the well worn path and through a woodland area over a footbridge which passes over Fairy Call Beck.
Go over the footbridge
Follow the path onto the road and walk ahead keeping on the grass verge near the road.
Join the road and follow it ahead
Look for a sharp bend in the road to the right and instead of following the road, join a track to the left.
Join the track to the left
Follow the track heading to the right and keeping the field boundary wall to your right. Keep on the track until you come to the farm buildings of Camomile Farm.
Pass by Camomile Farm
Turn left away from the farm keeping the boundary wall to your right. Soon you will come to a steep decline and a beck. Be careful on the decline down the steep bank and use the stepping stones to cross the beck.
Stepping Stones
After crossing the beck look for a bench and then turn right onto a lane that heads into the village of Lastingham.
Follow the lane into Lastingham
Following the road down into Lastingham you can now turn right and make a slight detour off the walk to visit the Norman crypt at the parish church of St Mary. If you choose to a pit stop at one of the cafes this can be done as Lastingham is a particularly peaceful village.
The crypt at St Marys
When you re-join the route keep going on the lane down through Lastingham and look for a road to the right with some cottages on it. Follow the sound of water and at the end of the road just past the last cottage follow a path to the right and climb the path.
Climb the path
Climb the path which can get muddy In wet weather, keep following it at a waymark until you eventually come out onto a road. Turn right and at a set of junctions head right signposted to Spaunton.
Take the road to the right signed to Spaunton
Walk through the village of Spaunton until you come to a T junction. Turn right and then left into Grange Farm.
Turn left into Grange Farm
Follow the waymarks through the farm buildings and then join a track. Follow the track as it turns to the left and pass more farm buildings. Look for a signpost to the right and follow the track again.
Follow the track round and to the right
Now follow the waymarked track down which eventually goes downhill and through sparse woodland. Keep following the waymarks and you will eventually come to the road into Hutton-le-Hole. Turn right to get back to the car park or to visit the museum or for a bite to eat in Hutton-le Hole. (Using your GPS on your phone comes in handy for the last part of the walk however just following the waymarks is easy)
Ryedale Folk Museum
Hutton-le-Hole
The Merrills World Championships took place annually at the Ryedale Folk Museum in Hutton-le-Hole until 1997. The museum contains 13 rescued and reconstructed historic buildings, including an Iron Age round house, period shops, thatched cottages, an Elizabethan manor house, barns and workshops. They display the lives of ordinary people, up to the present day. There is a cafe, a shop, a gift shop and (in season) craft workshops.
The Quaker minister John Richardson died in Hutton-le-Hole in 1753 at the age of 87.
Lastingham is a village and civil parish which lies in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England. It is on the southern fringe of the North York Moors, 5 miles (8.0 km) north-east of Kirkbymoorside, and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) to the east of Hutton-le-Hole. It was home to the early missionaries to the Angles, St. Cedd and his brother, St. Chad At the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 96, increasing to 233(including Spaunton) at the 2011 Census.
There is reason to believe that the original name for Lastingham was Læstingau. Læstingau first appears in history when King Ethelwald of Deira (651-c.655) founded a monastery for his own burial. Bede attributes the initiative to Ethelwald's chaplain Caelin, a brother of Cedd, Chad and Cynibil. Bede records that Cedd and Cynibil consecrated the site, and that Cynibil built it of wood. Cedd ruled the monastery as the first abbot until his death, combining this position with that of missionary bishop to the East Saxons. In 664, shortly after the Synod of Whitby, in which he was a key participant, St. Cedd died of the plague at Læstingau. Bede records that a party of monks from Essex came to mourn him and all but one were all wiped out by the plague. Cedd was first buried outside the wooden monastery but, at some time between 664 and 732, a stone church was erected, and his body was translated to the right side of the altar. The crypt of the present parish church remains a focus for veneration of Cedd. His brother St. Chad took his place as abbot.Not much is known of this house, though all who spoke of it spoke well. Perhaps the best indication of its standards is that, in 687, one of its graduates, Trumbert, transferred to Wearmouth-Jarrow and became scriptural tutor to a youthful Bede.
We have no knowledge of what became of the Anglo-Saxon house. Destruction by the Danes is nowhere attested, and seems to be entirely the product of modern conjecture. A start was made on rebuilding the monastery in 1078, when St. Stephen, prior of Whitby, and a band of monks moved from Whitby due to a disagreement with William de Percy, who was abbot of Whitby at the time.
They received support from King William 1 and Berenger de Todeni in the means of one carucate of land in Lastingham, six carucates at Spaunton, and other lands in Kirkby etc. They only remained for eight years however, due to persistent harassment by bandits. In 1086 they moved to York, and founded St. Mary's Abbey, to which they annexed the lands of the monastery at Lastingham.
There is a War Memorial.
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