Distance Covered: 4.5 miles Time to complete walk: 3 hours
Suitable for dog walking: Yes on a lead - take care at the cliff edge and when livestock in the field.
Total Steps: approx. 12,500
Safety Tips: Take care on the Cleveland Way part of the walk as the walk is near a sheer cliff edge drop. When descending the steps to Hayburn Walk use a walking stick especially if the steps are wet. Check the tide times for this walk as a visit to the pebbled beach is essential. Check the tide times here: Tide Times
This walk is a revelation. Start from the village of Cloughton which is just outside Scarborough, then make your way to the Cleveland Way and through woods to Hayburn Wyke. This wonderful pebbled beach is a wonderful day out for families. Look for fossils on the beach or take a picnic and have a dip in the sea. This is a fine example of a coastal walk with lots to offer everyone. One for the school holidays. The secret cove wont be jam packed with holiday makers!
The Hayburn Wyke walk
Getting There
Follow Guisborough Road up Birk Brow towards Whitby which is the A171. Turn right out of Whitby heading for Scarborough on the A171. Just before Scarborough on a right turn park at Cloughton on the roadside which is the start of the walk.
Map of the Hayburn walk
The Walk
From the roadside at Cloughton, make your way back to the junction you came into Cloughton from. Head straight across the road which is Newlands Road.
Head towards Newlands Road
Head up the road on the path beside it. Look for a right turn which is Hood Lane.
Keep to the path ahead
Turn right into Hood Lane
Turn right into Hood Lane. Follow the road under an old railway bridge which you will come across again on your return.
Follow Hood Lane
Go under the old railway bridge
When you come to a split in the path, take the left path which soon bends to the left.
Follow the track to the left
Follow the tracks as they narrow and eventually come to a signpost to the Cleveland Way.
Signpost to the Cleveland Way
Turn left and follow the Cleveland Way for sometime. There are brilliant views of the coast along the way.
View from the Cleveland Way
Peeking through the trees
Soon you arrive at some woods and a sign for Hayburn Wyke. Descend the path carefully heading down keeping right at a junction.
Enter the woods
Descend the path
Keep right at the junction
Heading down the path, there is an excellent spot to take a daring pick of the beach below.
The cove below
At another junction with a signpost, head right again and down passing a footbridge to your left.
Turn right at the signpost
Pass the footbridge without crossing it
You will now be able to hear the sea and the waterfall. Make your way down to the beach, providing the tide is out of course, by clambering down some steep rocky steps.
Head to the beach
Hayburn Wyke beach
The waterfall is just before the beach which is covered with different coloured rocks and pebbles. A great spot to do some fossil hunting and have a picnic.
Waterfall
The beach
Waterfall
When you can tear yourself away from this idyllic cove, hopefully with a fossil or two, make your way up to the second junction you passed and head upwards to the woods.
Head up the steps
Go ahead at the junction
Ignore any turn offs on this path keeping in the direction ahead. Soon you will come to a gate with some steps to the right of it. Head up the steps to a gate.
Gate with steps to the right
Head through the small gate
There may be livestock in the field ahead. Follow the path as it bends to the left to a gate with the Hayburn Wyke Inn ahead.
Head onto the field
Go through the metal gate
Hayburn Wyke Inn is a great spot for a refreshment. Otherwise, pass its entrance and head up an access road to the right with old bicycles in the hedges.
Pass by the Hayburn Wyke entrance
Head down the access road
Bicycle in the hedge
When the road bends to the right look for a gate to the left which leads onto the Cinder Path which is the route of a disused railway.
Turn left and onto the disused railway
This path stays quite linear. Remember the bridge you passed under at the start of the walk? Look for some steps to the right shortly after the bridge.
Head down the Cinder path
Cross the bridge
Steps down to the road
Turn left back onto Hood Lane and retrace your steps back to Cloughton where you parked your car.
Cloughton
Cloughton (pronounced Cloh-tun) is a small village and civil parish in the Scarborough district of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Scarborough town centre and approximately 200 miles north of London.
It has a parish church and two pubs - the Blacksmiths Arms and the Red Lion. It is home to a large conference centre and hotel called Cober Hill. It has cricket and football pitches. According to the 2011 UK census, Cloughton parish had a population of 687, a reduction on the 2001 UK census figure of 711 The parish council is Cloughton Parish Council.
Craig White, Yorkshire cricketer, lives in Cloughton. It was also the home of the Reverend G P Taylor, author of Shadowmancer and Wormwood. Craig Hiley, Yorkshire Photographer, lives in Cloughton.
Hayburn Wyke Railway Station
The station was rebuilt in 1893, and closed temporarily on 1 March 1917. Reopening took place on 2 May 1921 before final, permanent closure on 8 March 1965. From 1955 the station was reduced to an unstaffed halt. The former stationmaster's house dating back to 1892, which stands parallel to the former line, survives as a private residence.
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