Distance Covered: 3.5 miles Time to complete walk: 1.5 hours
Total Steps: approx 7000
Safety Tips: Don't walk over the ford if the water level is too high at the start of the walk. Take the bridge instead and join the track soon after.
A short walk that takes enough effort to make you feel you have had a good workout. Starting at Beggars Bridge near the railway bridge just outside Glaisdale there is a steep but manageable climb to Snowdon Nab and then fields, farm tracks and a forest path back to the start.
The Glaisdale Walk
From Middlesbrough follow the A171 to Guisborough thenfollow it up Birk Brow. Look for a turn off for Lealholm which is a right turn. Go through Lealholm and keep on the road to Glaisdale which is a left turn.
Drive through Glaisdale, and park under the railway bridge near Beggars Bridge which is free parking but is very limited.
Map of the Glaisdale Walk
The Walk
Cross the ford
Follow the path as it climbs upwards steeply.
Follow the path
The path then carries onwards with a wall to the left.
Keep onwards
Keep ahead at a crossroads in the path
Keep ahead at the crossroads
Soon the path becomes a road near a house.
Follow the path onto the road
The road continues on and is Snowdon Nab
Snowdon Nab sign
Continue on the road as it takes a left bend and comes to a junction. Follow the road to the right.
Turn right at the junction
Further along on the road look for a signpost to the left.
Signpost on the left
Follow a path heading for a gate ahead
Head for the gate ahead
When you come to the gate look for a waymark on the right.
Gate with waymark to the right
Don't go through the gate, instead keep to the right of the wall and head for another gate at an angle to two walls
Gate at angle to two walls
Go through the gate into a field. Follow the field to the bottom left heading for an abandoned house and buildings which is Lodge Hill
Head for the bottom left of the field
Head towards the buildings
Go through a gate and past the farm buildings and follow a path out of the buildings
Gate into Lodge Hill
Farm Buildings
Lodge Hill House
Follow tracks out
Soon you come to another farm which is Butter Park. Go through the farmyard
Follow tracks to Butter Farm
Go through the farmyard
Follow the road out until you come to a cottage at a junction
Follow track out of the farm
Head towards the cottage
Turn right at the junction onto the road and folllow this road until a signpost to the left to Bridleway Glaisdale.
Turn right onto the road
Views of Eskdale
Go through a gate and follow the forest path which falls to the River Esk and look for the bridge which takes you back to the railway arches and your car.
Signpost on the left
Signpost to Glaisdale Bridleway
Go through gate
Walk through the forest
River Esk
Follow path down to the bridge and the railway arches
Glaisdale
According to the 2011 UK census, Glaisdale parish had a population of 1,018, an increase on the 2001 UK census figure of 974.
Beggars Bridge
At the eastern edge of the village lies Beggar's Bridge, built by Thomas Ferris in 1619. Ferris was a poor man who hoped to wed the daughter of a wealthy local squire. In order to win her hand, he planned to set sail from Whitby to make his fortune. On the night that he left, the Esk was swollen with rainfall and he was unable to make a last visit to his intended. He eventually returned from his travels a rich man and, after marrying the squire's daughter, built Beggar's Bridge so that no other lovers would be separated as they were. The bridge is now Grade II* listed.
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