Distance Covered: 3.75 miles Time to complete walk: 2 hours
Suitable for dog walking: Dogs should be held on a lead if cows are in the field.
Total Steps: approx. 14,000
Safety Tips: Be careful on the A1039 also known as Flotmanby Lane as the cars whizz by. In the fields with cows in keep your distance if you are walking when the cows are calving. There are usually signs to let you know this.
A great idea for a short pub walk in this village near Filey. The Ship Inn is your parking spot and starting point. The walk is over fields and farmland and the village of Muston has a nice church to visit as well.
The Muston Walk
Getting There
Follow the A171 through Whitby and then follow it through Scarborough. From
Scarborough follow the A165 which is the coast road until you approach Filey. Look for a right turn off to Muston which is the A1039. Parking is roadside parking beside The Ship Inn pub.
Map of the Muston walk
The Walk
From the pub parking make your way out of the village until you reach the last of the houses. After the houses look for a sign near a gate on your left. Go through the gate into a small meadow
Make your way out of Muston
Go through the gate on your left
Shortly after you come to another small gate. Go through this gate
Go through another gate
You are now on the Wolds Way and follow this track uphill over two waymarked stiles. Head on the track keeping to the left of a hedge and head for the corner of this field to a gate
Head to the corner of the field with the hedge to your right
Go through the gate
The Wolds Way now goes diagonally to another signpost. Follow this track to it.
Follow the Wolds Way signpost
Turn a sharp right and follow this track through undergrowth until you come to an open field.
Turn sharp right and follow the track
Keep on the track
Follow the track to the road below and carefully cross the road to go into Manor Farm.
Enter the field ahead
Cross over the road carefully
Enter Manor Farm
Follow the farm track as it bends to the right
Follow the farm track as it bends to the right
Keep on the farm track
The track goes on for a while and then comes to a bridge
Keep on the track
Cross the bridge
As soon as you cross the bridge turn right to follow a path near the water channel.
Follow the path ahead
When you come to another bridge - don't cross it and keep on the track ahead
Keep straight ahead at the next bridge
Follow the path ahead
You will soon come to a gate. Go through the gate and follow the path with the hedge to your right
Go through the gate
Follow the path with the hedge to your right
Go through another two gates in the same direction. When you come to another large gate don't go through it but turn left and follow the field path keeping the hedge to your right again.
Turn left when you come to this gate
Follow the path ahead with the hedge to your right
Soon the path curves to the right. Go through a gate and join a track which is Carr Lane
Follow the path which bends to the right
Go through the gate
Join Carr Lane
Follow the lane as it goes back to Muston and turn right as you approach the road through Muston
Follow Carr Lane
Turn right at the road
Make your way back to the pub as the path passes an interesting church. Time for a pub lunch!
Church at Muston
The Ship Inn
Muston
Muston is listed in the Domesday Book as "Mustone", in the Torbar Hundred of the East Riding of Yorkshire. The settlement included seven households, twenty-one villagers, six smallholders, and ten ploughlands. In 1066 Karli son of Karli held the Lordship, this transferring in 1086 to Gilbert of Ghent who also became Tenant-in-chief to King William I.
In 1823 Muston was a village and civil parish in the Wapentake of Dickering in the East Riding of Yorkshire. The ecclesiastical parish was a Vicarage held by the Archdeacon of Cleveland, Francis Wrangham. Population at the time was 350. Occupations included fourteen farmers, two butchers, two carpenters, three grocers, a tanner, a bricklayer, a corn miller, a shoemaker, an earthenware dealer, a tailor, a blacksmith, and the landlady of The Cross Keys public house. A daily coach linked Muston to Hull and Scarborough. A carrier operated between the village and Bridlington Hunmanby and Filey twice weekly.
The 1863 parish church of All Saints' was designated a Grade II listed building in 1966.
There is a derelict windmill on the outskirts of the village, just off the A1039 road. References to a mill first appear in 1341.The current mill is thought to have been built in 1826 and was in use until 1932.
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