Distance Covered: 7.5 miles Time to complete walk: 4 hours
Total Steps: approx. 17,000
Safety Tips: Cows with calves signs need to be noted. Take no chances with a herd of cows. Always look for an exit before entering a field with cows in it. Keep well away and if with a dog leave the dog if threatened by cows moving towards you. Your dog will find a way out and can outrun them. If unsure about entering a field with cows with calves signs on the gate look for an alternative route. The route back on the Cleveland Way is on exposed moors - wrap up well!
Black Hambleton refers to the big hill ahead of you at the beginning of the walk. The walk takes you through Silton Forest on a cycle route, over farmland and fields and then a country lane. The return is on the Cleveland Way on the top of the moor. Extensive views are found once you climb onto the moor. A walk ideal for a few hours of solitude.
The Black Hambleton Walk
Getting There
Map of the Black Hambleton walk
The Walk
From the carpark head up the Cleveland Way until you reach a gate with Black Hambleton Hill ahead. Go through the gate.
Go through the gate ahead
Take the fork in the path to the right which is signposted as the National Cycle Network.
Turn right at the fork in the path
Keep ahead on this trail for about a mile and a half, which will go through Silton Forest ignoring any turn offs until you pass a picnic area and car park on your right.
Keep ahead on the cycle path
Sign on cycle path
Go past the picnic area and car park
Keeping ahead on the path out of the forest, look for a gate to your left shortly after passing the picnic area and entrance to the forest
Go through the gate on your left
Keep ahead in the field towards another open gate into another field
Go onto the next field
Keep in the same direction over the next field to a stile by a gate.
Go over the stile
Be vigiliant in these fields as cows with calves may be present and will protect their young and may act aggressively. Keep a safe distance. See the notes in the Safety Tips. In this field turn three quarters right and head into the next field keeping to the left of the field by the hedge. When you come to the top left corner of the field head to the right and over a stile passing the farm to your right.
Go over stile onto field with farm on your right.
Head diagonally across this field following a waymark sign
Follow the waymark
Head through an open gate into the field with a huge tree in the middle of it.
Head past the tree
Head to the left corner of this field and over a stile onto a lane.
Follow this track which veers to the right and passes over a stream
The Hambleton Hills are a range of hills in North Yorkshire, England. They form the western edge of the North York Moors but are separated from the moors by the valley of the River Rye. They are the eastern boundary of the low-lying Vale of Mowbray which they abut with a precipitous escarpment.
They run in a north–south direction for about 15 miles (24 km) and merge with the Cleveland Hills in the north and Howardian Hills in the south.
The hills are made up of rocks of middle and late Jurassic age with the hard Corallian Limestone forming the cap at the highest points. The highest points are Black Hambleton which rises to 1,308 feet (400 m), Roulston Scar reaches 919 feet (280 m) and Whitestone cliff is 1,063 feet (324 m). The Corallian Limestone also outcrops along the southern edge of the North York Moors forming the Tabular Hills which run from Black Hambleton eastwards to Scarborough, although much broken through by river valleys.
In the 12th and 13th centuries, the Hambleton Hills was the production centre for York Glazed Ware, a type of Medieval ceramic.
Go over the stile onto the lane
Turn right and then immediately go over a stile opposite onto another field.
Go over the stile on the opposite side of the lane
You will now cross three more fields keeping to the left of each fields boundary until you arrive at a hidden footbridge at the end of the last field.
Keep the left of the fields
Go over the hidden footbridge
In the next field head on a clear path to the gate and stile which leads onto a road ahead.
Follow the clear path ahead
Go over the stile onto the road ahead
Turn left on the road and follow the road sharply around the bend to the left. At another bend to the right take the track to your left which rises upwards.
Follow the road to the left
Turn left in the road onto the path which rises
Follow this path which rises steeply and ends up at Nab Farm at the top.
Follow the path upwards
When you reach the farm keep to the right of the barns and go through two gates.
Keep to the right of the barns at the farm
Go through the gate
Follow this track which veers to the right and passes over a stream
Follow the track ahead
Go over the stream
Take the path to the left which climbs to a gate and a lime kiln
Go through the gate
Lime Kiln
The path upwards can be covered by a gentle stream of water. However a safer route up is directly to the left and is a very clear path. Climb this path to a wall to your right.
Head up the path
Head up towards the wall
The path up climbs more steeply and the views around you are amazing. Follow the path up keeping the wall to your right.
Tree to your left
View to your right.
Eventually you will reach a gate at the top. Go through the gate and you will now be on the Cleveland Way. Follow this clear route to the left.
Go through the gate at the top
Turn left onto the Cleveland Way
The way forward is now easy- just keep to the left at any forks in the road keeping next to the wall to your left.
Keep left at any forks in the road
The views around are stunning and there is plenty to take in. Following the track you will come back down Black Hambleton. The Cleveland Way will take you back to the first gate you went through and down to the carpark.
Breach in the wall
Cairn on the moor
Coming down the Black Hambleton
The Hambleton Hills
They run in a north–south direction for about 15 miles (24 km) and merge with the Cleveland Hills in the north and Howardian Hills in the south.
The hills are made up of rocks of middle and late Jurassic age with the hard Corallian Limestone forming the cap at the highest points. The highest points are Black Hambleton which rises to 1,308 feet (400 m), Roulston Scar reaches 919 feet (280 m) and Whitestone cliff is 1,063 feet (324 m). The Corallian Limestone also outcrops along the southern edge of the North York Moors forming the Tabular Hills which run from Black Hambleton eastwards to Scarborough, although much broken through by river valleys.
In the 12th and 13th centuries, the Hambleton Hills was the production centre for York Glazed Ware, a type of Medieval ceramic.
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