Filey ~ Easy Walk

Distance: 2 miles   Time to complete walk: 1.5 hours

Safety Tips: Be extremely careful on the cliff edges- the danger signs are there for a reason. Don't go past the safe areas as the cliffs are precarious.

A short but amazing walk which offers staggering views of the cliffs and Filey Brigg. One short easy climb required. Part of the walk is over the beach and the usual seaside favourites are on offer- fish and chips and amusement arcades.

 

The Filey Walk

 

Getting There

From Middlesbrough go up Ormesby Bank and take the left turning at the roundabout onto Guisborough Road (A171). Follow the A171 to Whitby and keep on the A171 until you reach a right turnoff to follow the A171 to Scarborough. When you reach Cloughton follow the A165 through Scarborough. Keep on the A165 after Scarborough and then look for a left turn off to Filey. Follow the signs to the Country Park North parking. Ample parking is available and costs £3.00 for 2 hours.

 

Map of the Filey walk

 

The Walk

 

From the car park head towards the far right corner of the car park in the direction of the cliffs. Look for a rock with information on it and go through the gate ahead.

 

 

Rock with information on it

 

Head through the gate

 

 

Head to the left and a marker stone which shows the start/finish of the Wolds Way.

 

 

 

Marker Stone

 

Straight ahead walk towards the edge of the cliff and prepare to be amazed at the views from the cliffs. Nature really is wonderful! If you are brave you can descend to the cliff below. However stay safe whatever you choose.

 

 

 

View from the cliff

 

Path to cliff below - stay safe!

 

Follow the cliff path to the right and walk towards Filey Brigg ahead.

 

Another view from the cliff edge

 

Follow the path ahead to Filey Brigg

 

Ignore a path to the right which takes you to the shoreline below. A few steps farther from the danger sign you can take photos of the brigg. However do not venture further. If you can see people on the brigg, they have made there way there from the shore.

 

 

Take heed of the danger sign

 

View of the brigg below

 

Double back now and head to the left and at this point join a grassy path ahead

(You are at marker 1 on the map)

 

 

Follow the grassy path to the left

 

Keep on the grass track and then look for a path leading to some steps down on your left.

 

 

Take the path to the left

 

Follow the steps down



 

Make your way down the steps and then turn left and you will then notice the sailing club on the left.

 

 

Filey Sailing Club

 

 

Go down the ramp and onto the beach and head towards the other ramp onto the other side of the beach with the amusement arcades and cafes on your right.

 

 

Cross the beach

 

Go past the amusement arcades

 

Turn right up Church Ravine and look for a red telephone box and some steps to your right.

 

 

 

Red Telephone Box on the right

 

Climb the steps on your right

 

This is a short and easy climb - whichever signs you follow you will end on the open field ahead and the return to the car park. (You are at marker 2 on the map)

 

 

 

Emerge onto the field and the car park

 

 

Views from Filey Cliffs

 

 

Filey

 

 

Filey is a small town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the East Riding of Yorkshire, it is part of the borough of Scarborough between Scarborough and Bridlington on the North Sea coast. Although it was a fishing village, it has a large beach and became a popular tourist resort. According to the 2011 UK census, Filey parish had a population of 6,981, an increase on the 2001 UK census figure of 6,819.

The 12th century parish church dedicated to St Oswald, on Church Hill in the north of the town, is a Grade I listed building. It is the oldest building in Filey and Nicholas Pevsner wrote "This is easily the finest church in the NE corner of the East Riding" (Buildings of England).
Filey was a small village until the 18th century when visitors from Scarborough arrived seeking the peace and quiet that Filey then offered. In 1835 a Birmingham solicitor called John Wilkes Unett bought 7 acres (28,000 m²) of land and built the Crescent, later known as the Royal Crescent, which was opened in the 1850s.
English composer Frederick Delius stayed as a boy on the Crescent with his family at Miss Hurd's boarding house (number 24) in 1876 and 1877, and then at Mrs Colley's (number 24) in 1897.
In 1931 the spire of a church was damaged by the Dogger Bank earthquake.
For more than 40 years Butlin's Filey Holiday Camp was a major factor in Filey's economy. Building began in 1939 and continued during the Second World War when it became an air force station known as RAF Hunmanby Moor. In 1945 it became a popular holiday resort with its own railway station and by the late 1950s could cater for 10,000 holiday makers. It closed in 1984, causing a decrease in the holiday makers visiting Filey.
Filey was historically split between the North Riding of Yorkshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire, with the boundary running along Filey Beck. When County Councils were formed by the Local Government Act 1888, the whole of Filey was placed in the East Riding.