Distance Covered: 3 miles Time to Complete Walk 2.5 hours
Suitable for dog walking: No - Grouse on moors part of the walk
A rare visit to Arkengarthdale from the picture postcard village of Langthwaite. The bridge at Langthwaite is featured in the opening scenes of All Creatures Great And Small and the Red Lion Inn is worth a visit at the end of the walk. Starting with a steep climb to the moors and then down to the intriguingly named hamlet of Booze and back through an enchanting riverside woodland trail. Parking is at Langthwaite and is £3.50 for 4 hours.
Virus Awareness: No issues along the way. Take a face mask if checking into the Red Lion pub in Langthwaite.
General Safety Tips: The climb at the start of the walk is a steep climb. Take plenty of water and insect repellent for those pesky midges. A good level of fitness is required for this walk.
The Langthwaite Walk
Getting There
From Middlesbrough follow the A66 towards Darlington. Then head onto the A1(M) to Scotch Corner. Head towards Richmond and after Richmond head towards Reeth which is on the Reeth Road or the A6108. Later at a junction follow the B6270 and drive through Reeth. From Reeth head onto the Arkengarthdale Road into Langthwaite. Parking is a carpark on your right before the Red Lion Inn.
Map of the Langthwaite Walk
The Walk
From the car park turn right and then right again over the humpbacked bridge and head towards the Red Lion Inn.
Turn right and go over the bridge
Passing through the Red Lion Inns courtyard head up the road towards the righthand corner.
Head into Langthwaite
Follow the road as it leaves Langhtwaite.
Head up the road
Fork left onto a woodland path which rises through the woods.
Head up the woodland path
Already you can see brilliant views to your left.
View from the woodland path
The woodland path keeps to the edge for a while and passes a bench. At a junction take the right hand path.
Take the right hand path
Soon you come to a gate which exits the wood.
Head through the gate
Follow the path with the wall to your right passing an abandoned farm building.
Pass the farm building
Follow the path until you come to a gate on your right with a finger post.
Right turning with a finger post
Go through the gate and head up the steep track to the gap at the top which has posts along the path.
Marker post on the climb up the path
Head up the path with rocks to your left.
Keep on the path
At the top go through a gate which heads onto the moor.
Go through the gate onto the moor
On the moors, keep ahead to the right until you reach the main moor path.
Head onto the main moor track
Keep on this track ignoring a right fork in the track.
Keep on the main track
When you come to a smaller path to the right with a barn to the left head onto this path.
Head to the right on the path near the barn
Go through the gate on your right.
Go through the gate
Head down and to the left and merge onto a raised path to the right.
Head down the path merging with the higher path
Follow this path down and when it arrives at a gate, go through the gate.
Head down the track
Go through the gate
Head past the barn
Go through the gate
The track carries on and you arrive at a gate to a farm.
Gate to a farm
Go through the gate and pass the front of the farm as the sweeps to the right and then downhill.
Head down the track passing the farm
Head down the track
You then need to double back at the bottom and follow the path to the left.
Double back and follow the path to the left
At a branch in the path stay to the right.
Keep to the right branch of the path
The path now enters the hamlet of Booze.
Head into the hamlet of Booze
Enter Town Farm and immediately turn right onto a slightly paved path.
Head into Town Farm
Take the paved path to the right
Head onto a grassy path to a gate with a marker post
Head through the gate
Head down a distinct path in the field.
Head down the field
Keep on the path until you come to a set of signposts. Ignore the signpost down to the left and instead turn right onto a clear path.
Arrive at the signposts (photo taken from different angle)
Take the path on the right
This path heads into a wood which is beside the river and offers great shade on a sunny day.
Head through the gate
Pass an abandoned farm building and keep the river to your left.
Pass the farm building to your right
Pass a footbridge to your left.
Pass the footbridge
This last part of the walk is a lovely riverside one. Soon you arrive at the humpbacked bridge in Langhtwaite. Turn left and left again to return to the car park.
View of the river
Bridge at Langthwaite
Langthwaite
Langthwaite is one of the few villages in Arkengarthdale, North Yorkshire, England. It is 3.5 miles (5.6 km) north of Reeth and sits 870 feet (270 m) above sea level. It is the main settlement in the dale and is one of the most northerly settlements in the whole of Yorkshire Dales National Park. Langthwaite is one of two places in the dale that have houses clustered together closely in a traditional village set up; the rest of the settlements in the dale are populated by scattered buildings.
It is home to a pub ('The Red Lion'), a shop and an unusual commissioners' church of 1818, which was one of many then built with money provided by Parliament in an attempt to counteract atheism and free thinking after the French Revolution. Langthwaite is also home to a hexagonal powder house, built in 1807 to store gunpowder used in the many mines dotted around the area.[8]
The 1851 census counted 48 houses in Langthwaite.
The village was used for the filming of several scenes in the television series All Creatures Great and Small. The Red Lion was featured in the episode "Every Dog Has His Day" but was made out to be in fictional Briston, while the frontage of the fictional J. R. Stubbs provisions store and the bridge which Siegfried Farnon and James Herriot drive over, featured in the opening credits of the later series, are also in the village. Another TV series, Century Falls, also featured Langthwaite. The 1976 Disney film Escape from the Dark was partly filmed in Langthwaite and around Arkengarthdale.
The name of the village is Old Norse in origin and means 'the long meadow' or 'the long clearing'.
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