Distance Covered: 7 miles Time to Complete Walk: 3 hours
Suitable for dog walking: No - Busy traffic and some fields may have livestock in them.
Famous for its racecourse, the market town of Wetherby is surrounded by beautiful countryside and is situated on the banks of the River Wharfe. This walk starts on an old railway track and visits two sleepy Yorkshire villages before walking back to an optional riverside wander at Wetherby. Parking is free at the Old Station car park.
Virus Awareness: Plenty of room on the walk between other walkers and nothing to be concerned about.
General Safety Tips: Be extremely careful crossing the A661. On the road to Linton Village and through the village keep to the verge/pavement when possible and be vigilant for cars. Crossing the golf course in Wetherby, take note of the notices and ensure no golfers are playing when you cross it.
The Wetherby Walk
Getting There
From Middlesbrough take the A19 to join the A1M southbound. Keep on the A1M until Junction 46 which is the Wetherby turn off. Follow the B1224 to a roundabout and turn right to follow the road into Wetherby town centre. Look for a roundabout and turn right onto the A661. Follow the road to another roundabout and keep left onto Linton Road. The Old Station Car Park is a right turning and is free.
Map of the Wetherby Walk
The Walk
From the car park with your back to the entrance, head to the right which is the start of the old railway path.
Follow the old railway track
Go under a bridge
Go under the bridge
Keep left at a fork in the track.
Keep left at a fork in the track
Go under another bridge.
Go under another bridge
Keep on the path ahead at a grassy triangle.
Keep on the path ahead
After walking under another bridge, follow the path roughly for a mile longer.
Go under another bridge
After about a mile, you come to a crossroads. Turn left signposted as Stockfield Park and follow the path to a gate.
Turn left at the crossroads
Follow the path to a gate
In the field, head diagonally to the left to farm buildings and a gate.
Head diagonally through the field
Go through the gate
Follow the path ahead.
Keep ahead on the path
Soon you arrive at the A661 which is a busy road. Very carefully cross the road to Stockfield Park.
Cross the A661 with care
Enter Stockfield Park and keep on the main path.
Enter Stockfield Park
Keep on the road ahead
The road passes a big car park on the left. Follow the road as it bends right.
Follow the road as it bends right
At a fork in the road keep right.
Keep right at a fork in the road
Go through a gate and keep on the track ahead.
Go through a gate and keep ahead
The path then descends to a lane. Keep on the lane ahead.
Keep ahead on the lane
Go through a barrier to the left and keep on the lane ahead.
Go through the barrier
Keep on the lane which is a nice quiet country lane.
Keep on the quiet country lane
Soon you come to the entrance into the village of Sicklinghall. Keep right and walk into the village.
Follow the pavement into Sicklinghall.
Walk into the village
When you come to a triangle on the left, just before a church, cross the road carefully and follow the road left and then left again.
Cross the road and follow the road to the left.
Turn left again
Follow the road which is called Longlands Lane out of the village and it passes some very striking trees.
Keep on the lane ahead
The lane ends before Sicklinghall House. Join a bridleway to the left just before Sicklinghall House.
Follow the lane into Sicklinghall House
Turn left onto the bridleway
Follow the bridleway as it bends and then look for a narrow path on your right.
Keep on the bridleway
Take the path to your right
Keep on the path
Follow the path into woodland
Soon the path leaves the woods and leads around the boundaries of the woods.
Follow the path as it leaves the woods.
Keep to the path as it bends around the woods.
Follow the path as it bends around the woods
Soon you arrive at a waymarker. Follow the path to the left.
Follow the waymarker to the left
This path goes ahead and then cuts through the field to some woodland.
Follow the path to the woods
Follow the path into the woods and you soon emerge onto a road. Turn left onto the road.
Enter the woods
Turn left onto the road
Follow the pleasant road, keeping aware of traffic, ignoring any turn offs until you come to the Windmill Inn in Linton village.
Keep on the road ahead
The Windmill Inn in Linton
Turn left and keeping to the verge or path follow the road as it passes through the village of Linton.
Turn left and follow the road
Keep the path
Try to keep to the pavement and be aware of traffic. Look out for a house with grey gates called Springhill on the left. The away ahead is just before the house to your right and over the road.
Look out for Springhill on your left
Cross the road and go down some steps
Follow some steps down to a golf course.
Go down the steps to the golf course
Heed the warning notices on the gold course and walk across it diagonally.
Walk across the golf course
Follow the path through an archway at the other side.
Go through the archway.
Walk in the same direction across the golf course heeding the warning signs
Head across the golf course
Head across the golf course
Follow the path to a green bell leading into a narrow enclosed path
Keep on the path
Head to the green bell
Head through a gate and follow the path over a field.
Go through the gate
Follow the path over the field
Go over a step stile and follow the path through some trees.
Go over the step stile
Follow the path ahead
The path then comes to an archway to the left. A detour to the right takes you over a bridge and has some great riverside views. Alternatively, turn left through the archway and up some steps. Turn left and the carpark is on your right.
Turn left through the archway
Head up steps
Turn left and the car park is a right turn
Views of Wetherby from the riverside
Wetherby
Wetherby is a market town and civil parish within the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, in West Yorkshire, England, close to the county's border with North Yorkshire and lies approximately 12 miles (19 kilometres) from Leeds, 12 mi (19 km) from York and 8 mi (13 km) from Harrogate. The town stands on the River Wharfe, and for centuries has been a crossing place and staging post on the Great North Road midway between London and Edinburgh.
Historically a part of the Claro Wapentake (as part of the parish of Spofforth) within the West Riding of Yorkshire, Wetherby is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Wedrebi, thought to derive from wether- or ram-farm or else meaning "settlement on the bend of a river".
Wetherby Bridge, which spans the River Wharfe, is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and a Grade II listed structure. The course of the Old Great North Road passes through the town and, as result of its situation on the road, many coaching inns were established in Wetherby which are still used by travellers today.
The town was listed in the 2018 Sunday Times report on Best Places to Live in northern England.
It sits in the Wetherby ward of Leeds City Council and Elmet and Rothwell parliamentary constituency.
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