Distance: 8.5 miles Time to complete walk: 4 hours
Safety Tips: Some climbing over gates is required. Be careful on the path to Wydale Hall as it is on a slope. A good part of the walk is on minor roads. Be aware of oncoming traffic by walking on the right hand side of the road so you can see the traffic coming.
A walk for lovers of long walks, with Brompton village offering tea rooms and a church to explore before or after the walk. Only a medium gradient on the Snainton part of the walk, the walk passes through three sleepy small villages and is on well defined farm tracks for a large chunk of the walk. The walk is challenging due to its length.
The Brompton-by-Sawdon Walk
Getting There
From Middlesbrough, travel up Ormesby Bank and follow the A172 to Stokesley. Take the left turning on the roundabout before Stokesley, which will take you through Great Broughton which is the B125. Follow this scenic route to Helmsley and then take the A170 to Scarborough. The A170 passes through Brompton-by Sawdon just before Scarborough. Parking can be found near the village hall or on one of the villages side-streets.
Map of the Brompton-by-Sawdon Walk
The Walk
From the village hall head down Cayley Lane onto Church Lane.
Head onto Church Lane
Walk towards the church which is worth a visit and look for a path opposite which alongside a pond.
Church
Follow path near the pond
Walk beside the pond and the beck and you will then come to the village green. Take a right turn onto Malpas Road after the village green.
Turn right onto Malpas Road
Malpas Road
Follow this road which swings to the left and then right again and keep on the road now called Brompton Carr Lane. Keep on this road as it heads dead straight past a farm and a caravan park to your right (You are at marker 1 on the map) At a crossroads, turn right onto Barkers Lane.
At the crossroads turn right onto Barkers Lane
Follow the lane which will take you directly through Snainton with the A170 passing through it. (You are at marker 2 on the map) Cross over the road and head upwards the road directly opposide which is a steady climb.
Cross the road carefully
Head onto the farm track
Look for signpost to the right
Follow the path which is to the side of the field edge and then enters woodland through a gate.
Follow the path on the field edge
Go through the gate into woodland
Follow the well worn path to the left. Be careful on this path as it is on a slope. The path will then descend and Wydale Hall is just ahead.
Be careful on the path to the left
Head towards Wydale Hall
Go through the gate at the bottom and turn right onto the woodland path.
Go through the gate
Follow the path to the right
Look for a small white post shortly on the right. Head up this path which is the back of Wydale Hall. (You are at marker 3 on the map)
Spot the white post to the right and follow the path
Go past a tennis court towards a gate.
Go past Tennis Court
Go through the gate and follow the path to the corner of the grounds until you come to Wydale Lane.
Go through the gate
Head towards Wydale lane
Turn left and shortly after go through the buildings to a farm and onto a farm track.
Go in-between the buildings
Follow the path past the farm buildings
Follow the track out and climb over the metal gate and follow the path ahead over another gate onto the dale.
Follow the path ahead
Climb over the gate
Descend the dale following the worn grass track. Go through another gate, the gate is safe to go through, the fence may be electrified to keep the sheep on the farmland. Head towards another gate before the farm at Cote Head.
Look for gate leading to Cote Head farm
Follow the track to the farm and through the farmyard to the left of the farm. To the back of the farmyard look for a track to the right. (You are at marker 4 on the map)
Follow the track at the back of the farmyard
Keep on this track which eventually leads into the village of Sawdon.
Keep ahead on the track
Turn right and walk through the sleepy village of Sawdon past houses and a pub. (You are at marker 5 on the map) Just before the road turns to the right look for another farm track straight ahead.
Look for farm track as the road turns right
Follow the farm track ahead
This track works its way down to the village of Ruston, and meanders to the left and right to the side of fields. It takes a right turning and then down again to the village. (You are at marker 6 on the map)
Keep on the farm track to the right
Follow the farm track as it turns right
As you enter Ruston, take the road to the right of the bridge which heads down to the main road the A170.
Follow the road to the right of the bridge
Turn right onto the A170
Carefully cross the road when you arrive the first lane opposite you. This is called Hudgin Lane.
Cross over to the lane opposite
Follow the lane
(You are at marker 7 on the map)
Follow the lane for sometime and look for a signpost to the right which heads over a plank footbridge and onto another path.
Look for a signpost to the right
Go over the plank bridge
Follow the track over more farmland and through a corner in the field. This will lead you back to the village green.
Follow the track at the corner of the field
Go through the farmyard
Head right at the green
Brompton-by-Sawdon
The village of Brompton-by-Sawdon is about 8 miles (13 km) west of Scarborough itself, close to the North York Moors and on the A170 road. According to the 2011 UK census, Brompton parish had a population of 573, an increase on the 2001 UK census figure of 516.
Under 'Brompton', the sign on entry to the village reads 'The Birthplace Of Aviation' owing to the long term residence of pioneering aeronautical engineer Sir George Cayley. Brompton has been the seat of the Cayley family since the Middle Ages.
The poet William Wordsworth married Mary Hutchinson at All Saints' Church in the village, on 4 October 1802. A copy of the wedding certificate can be seen in All Saints Church
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