Distance Covered: 2.5 miles Time to Complete Walk: 1.5 hours
Suitable for dog walking: Yes
A gentle walk around one of Yorkshires favourite seaside towns. Starting at the edge of the Valley Gardens, make your way through the woods and then down to the pier and back through the gardens following a minature railway. A nice leisurely walk rewarded with a nice dose of fresh sea air.
Parking is on the kerbside near The Ridge and is free of charge.
Virus Awareness: The walk was completed in the middle of a lockdown and social awareness was heightened. Coffee shops and fish and chip shops were still serving and there were no social distancing issues along the route of the walk.
General Safety Tips: Wear walking boots as the route can get muddy. Wrap up well for the detour down Saltburn Pier.
The Saltburn Valley Gardens Walk
Getting There
From Middlesbrough follow the A174 to Saltburn. On entering the town square, look for a right turn onto Albion Terrace. Follow it ahead at a junction. Keep on Albion Terrace and look for a left turn onto Victoria Road. Follow this round until you come to The Ridge. Park on Victoria Road on the kerbside.
Map of the Saltburn Valley Gardens Walk
The Walk
Head towards The Ridge and look for a left turn down a track which is Marske Mill Lane.
Turn left down Marske Mill Lane
Look for a sign to your left for the entrance to the Valley Gardens.
Entrance to the Valley Gardens
Joining the Cleveland Way, the path dips and turns along a pleasant woodland track.
Join the Cleveland Way
Follow the path through the woods
Keep ahead at a fork in the path, keeping to the right branch of the path.
Keep to the right branch of the path
At another branch in the path, this time head up the left path.
Take the left fork n the path
Look for some steps to your left which will take you up to Albion Terrace.
Climb the steps up to the road
Turn right and follow the pavement passing a war memorial on your right.
War Memorial
Keep on the path ahead passing some nice art and a bandstand on you right.
Bandstand
Near a bus stop look for some steps down on your right.
Look for steps down on your right
At the bottom of the steps turn left and head on the path to the back of the Spa Hotel.
Head to the left
The Spa Hotel
Head to some steps in the corner on your right.
Head to the corner of the hotel
Follow the steps down
Emerging onto Saltburn bank turn right and head down to the bottom.
Turn right and head down to the bottom
For a detour to Saltburn Pier, cross the road carefully and walk through the car park to the pier for a nice bit of fresh sea air. Fish and Chips is also a temptation before the pier.
Cross the road into the car park
Head back to the footpath and before the bridge turn right passing a cafe.
Turn right and pass the cafe
Follow the path keeping to the left at a fork in the path.
Keep to the left at the fork
Follow the path passing a playground and over a footbridge.
Cross over the footbridge
The path runs adjacent to a miniature railway and ends at the train station.
Follow the path beside the railway
At the station cross over another footbridge.
Go over the footbridge
Turn left and then right up some steps.
Turn left and enter the gardens. There is also some tea rooms before the gardens which was closed due to the virus.
The formal gardens and tea rooms
Further on from the gardens is a nursery which can be accessed through a gate on the right.
Turn right through the gate into the nursery
From the nursery turn left and up some steps and the left again onto the woodland path you came from. Follow this path back to The Ridge and your car.
Head left from the nursery and up some steps
Head back on the woodland path
Saltburn Valley Gardens
The Valley Gardens cover about 10 hectares, and include a formal Italian Garden, a miniature railway, and woodland walks.
The Valley Gardens form part of the late Victorian seaside resort of Saltburn-by-the-Sea which was developed between 1861 and 1873 by the Quaker Henry Pease. The layout of the town, with the allocation of the site for the pleasure grounds, was designed by George Dickenson from 1861 to 1863. Following the first phase, several design proposals were considered for the remaining area. Joseph Newton's proposals were accepted and implemented between 1865 and 1867.
The c 10ha Valley Gardens lie on the eastern edge of Saltburn, on the west bank of a steep wooded glen (formerly called Camp Bank) along Skelton Beck, and they follow the long narrow landform of the glen. The eastern boundary of the site runs along White House Wood and Rigg Wood which cover the east bank of the glen. To the north, the site meets the Lower Promenade (formerly The Esplanade) which runs along the seafront, while the western boundary abuts two roads: Albion Terrace and Glenside. To the south, woodland merges into Rifts Wood, which is linked to the Valley Gardens by a series of footpaths.There are extensive views from various points within the site, the principal one being north towards the Lower Promenade and the sea. Formerly this included Saltburn Bridge (Ha¿Penny Bridge) which is shown on contemporary photographs. There are also important views east towards White House Wood and Saltburn Bank, and south to Thompson's Wood and Rushpool Hall. The latter, a C19 villa now converted to a hotel, is situated on top of a hill and forms an important eyecatcher.
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