Distance Covered: 7 miles Time to complete walk: 4 hours
Suitable for dog walking: Yes
Virus Awareness: Part of the walk is on the promenade and through traditional shops selling rock and souvenirs. Social distancing is hard to maintain on this part of the walk - wear a mask if possible. The main part of the walk has plenty of room to avoid close contact and crowds. Find out more information here:
General Safety Tips: This is a safe walk. Be careful on the out of town part of the walk as traffic can be busy. Take care crossing the railway towards the end of the walk. Check the tide times for a low tide here:
Find a different side to the seaside town of Bridlington. Start from Fraisethorpe and walk across its beach to Bridlington harbour, pier and its kitsch souvenir and fish and chip shops. Then head out of town and through the picturesque hamlet of Bessingby and its church and back to the beach. An exhilarating walk on the East Yorkshire coastline.
The Bridlington Walk
Getting There
From Middlesbrough follow the A171 towards Whitby and then keep on it towards Scarborough. Then change to the A165 and drive through to the centre of Scarborough. Follow the A165 out of Scarborough and to Bridlington. The start of the walk is at Fraisethorpe which is past Bridlington and a left turn off the A165. Parking is next to the beach and is £3.00 for all day parking. The car park closes at 9.30pm.
Map of the Bridlington Walk
The Walk
From the car park, drop down to the beach below and turn left. Walk along the beach which has remnants of wartime defences.
Wartime defences on the beach
Pass under the sailing club and keep on the beach heading for the harbour walls at Bridlington.
Keep on the beach
Head for the harbour walls
Look for some steps below the Spa which will take you onto Bridlington promenade.
Head up the steps below the spa
Turn right and make your way along the promenade to the harbour
Bridlington Spa
There is a detour to the harbour down some steps, however the route is a dead end.
Take the steps down to the harbour
Bridlington Harbour
Head towards the pier, passing the boat hoist and some souvenir shops. The pier is a nice walk and has some nice views and a worthy diversion
The boat hoist
Pass the souvenir shops
Statue on the pier
On returning from the pier head for some steps that take you onto the North Promenade.
Steps up to the promenade
Head to the left away from the harbour. You need to head for Hilderthorpe Road. This can be tricky to find, however you will pass The Brunswick Hotel and also there is a pub called The Hilderthorpe which will help you get you bearings. Head towards the road with the pub on it.
Head away from the harbour to the left
Keep on the pavement heading towards The Brunswick Hotel
Head towards The Hilderthorpe Pub
Head to the right passing the Hilderthorpe pub and you will soon pass a Tescos and a railway station. Keep to the left hand side pavement.
Head out of town
Pass a Tescos and a railway station
Keep on the left pavement
You will pass a number of traffic light systems. Take care crossing these. You will soon come to a railway bridge. Cross over the bridge and look for a track to your left.
Keep ahead over the road junctions
Cross over the railway bridge
Take the path on the left
Pass a McDonalds on your left and keep on the road with Morrisons to your right
and onto an industrial estate.
Turn right on the path through the trees
Head into the industrial estate
Head onto Enterprise Way
The path enters the allotments and then a playing field. Passing a brick house, follow the path the corner of the playing field.
Follow the path through allotments
Head to the corner of the playing field
The path then becomes a green lane. Follow it into the charming hamlet of Bessingby.
Follow the green lane
Head into the hamlet of Bessingby
There is a diversion on Church Lane to a lovely church - St Magnus- however the church was closed due to the virus - but worth a quick look.
St Magnus Church
Continue ahead and you will come to a crossroads. Keep to the left heading towards the driveway of a house. Look for a hidden path to the right.
Head to the crossroads
Head left to the gates of the house
Find the path to the right
The path follows the boundary of the house and then veers to the right into a field heading towards the railway line.
Follow the path around the boundaries of the property
Keep on the path ahead
Cross the railway line very carefully and continue on the path ahead
Cross the railway line
You soon emerge onto a road at the entrance of some water works. The path continues ahead.
Cross over the road
The path cuts through a field. Keeping to its side head towards the main road ahead
Follow the path at the side of the field
Head towards the road
Cross the road and head onto the road ahead signed as Park and Ride. Cross over to the right hand side and head down the road signed to the Sailing Club.
Head down the road signed Park and Ride
Cross over the road
Follow the road to the Sailing Club
The road bends and then heads down to the beach. Turn right and head back to the car park.
Follow the road as it bends
Head down to the beach
Bridlington
Bridlington, a coastal town and civil parish on the Holderness Coast of the North Sea, sometimes dubbed the "Lobster Capital of Europe",[2][3] belongs to the unitary authority and ceremonial county of the East Riding of Yorkshire. It is about 28 miles (45 km) north of Hull and 34 miles (55 km) east of York. The Gypsey Race enters the North Sea at its harbour. The 2011 Census gave a parish population of 35,369.[1] As a minor sea-fishing port, it is known for shellfish. Alongside small manufacturing, retail and service firms, its main trade is summer tourism. It is twinned with Millau, France, and Bad Salzuflen, Germany.[4] It holds one of the UK's coastal weather stations. The Priory Church of St Mary and associated Bayle Gate are Grade I listed buildings on the site of an Augustinian Priory.
Archaeological evidence shows habitation in the Bronze Age and in Roman Britain. The settlement after the Norman conquest was called Bretlinton, later Berlington, Brellington and Britlington, before gaining its present name in the 19th century.[5] The 1086 Domesday Book has Bretlinton.[6] The several suggested origins all trace the name to the Anglo-Saxon custom of matching a personal name with a settlement type. Here the personal names advanced include Bretel, Bridla and Berhtel, attached to -ingtūn, a Saxon term for a farm.[7][8]The date of earliest habitation at Bridlington is unknown, but the 2.5-mile (4 km) man-made Danes Dyke at nearby Flamborough Head goes back to the Bronze Age.[9] Some believe Bridlington was the site of a Roman station. A Roman road from York, now Woldgate, can be traced across the Yorkshire Wolds into the town. Roman coins have been found: two hoards in the harbour area, along with two Greek coins from the 2nd century BC — suggesting the port was in use long before the Roman conquest of Britain.[10] It has been suggested that a Roman maritime station, Gabrantovicorum, stood near the modern town.[11] In the early 2nd-century, Ptolemy described what was probably Bridlington Bay in his Geography as Γαβραντουικων Ευλίμενος κόλπος "Gabrantwikone bay suitable for a harbour". No sheltered ancient harbour has been found, but coastal erosion will have destroyed traces of any Roman installation near the harbour.
In the 4th century AD, Count Theodosius set up signal stations on the North Yorkshire coast to warn of Saxon raids. Flamborough Head is also believed to have had one – probably on Beacon Hill, now a gravel quarry, from where Filey, Scarborough Castle and the Whitby promontory can be seen. A fort at Bridlington would have made a centre of operations for these. Another suggestion has been a line of signal stations stretching south round Bridlington Bay. This counterpart to the northern chain would have guarded a huge accessible anchorage from barbarian piracy.[10][12]Near Dukes Park are two bowl barrows known as Butt Hills, now designated ancient monuments in the National Heritage List for England of Historic England.[13][14] Nearby are remains of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery on a farm outside Sewerby.[15][16][17]In the Second World War, Bridlington suffered several air raids that caused deaths and much bomb damage. The Royal Air Force had training schools in the town collectively known as RAF Bridlington, with one unit, No. 1104 Marine Craft Unit, continuing until 1980.
Bessingby
Bessingby is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies immediately south-east from the A614, approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south-west from Bridlington. The village forms part of Bridlington civil parish.Bessingby appears to be a site of Prehistoric and Roman occupation. Fragments of Neolithic axes have been discovered,[1] and cropmarks indicating trackways, ditch boundaries and enclosures have been seen at Bessingby High Field, 0.5 miles (0.8 km) to the south of the village, and just to the east, near to the A165 road.[2][3] A further archeological site is that of a now non-existent water mill, noted as extant in 1418, that could have been sited on Gypsey Race.[4]In the Domesday Book the village is written as “Basingebi”or “Basinghebi”. It consisted of 3 villagers, 1 freeman and 4 burgesses, 37 ploughlands, 1.5 plough teams, a meadow of 8 acres (0.032 km2) and a church. In 1066 lordship of the manor was held by Earl Morcar, being transferred to King William in 1086.[5][6] The Conqueror gave the village to Gilbert de Gant, his nephew; its ownership was later transferred to Bridlington Priory during the reign of Henry I.[7][8]In 1808 Benjamin Pitt Capper recorded 17 houses and a Bessingby population of 87.[9] By 1837 Moule noted 83 inhabitants, and St Magnus's church, rebuilt in 1766, containing monuments to H. Hudson (d.1826), and his wife Lady Ann (d.1818). Hudson's seat was Bessingby Hall at the north of the village,[10][11] inherited by his son Sir James Hudson (1810–1885), a private secretary under William IV, later in Foreign Service at Rio de Janeiro and Turin.[12] In July 1825 William Scoresby, Arctic explorer and scientist, became curate of Bessingby, before leaving to become Chaplain of the Mariners' Church, a floating ministry at Liverpool, in November 1826.[13][14] In 1892 Bessingby and its parish contained 171 inhabitants, within an area of 1,269 acres (5.14 km2). Agricultural production was chiefly wheat, oats and beans. By then, the manor, Hall and estate had been purchased from the Hudson family by George Wright JP,[7] who provided in his will for the construction of the new village church, St Magnus.[15]
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