Levisham Station ~ Hard Walk

 

Distance Covered: 5 miles Time to Complete Walk 3.5 hours

Suitable for dog walking: No

A fantastic walk- this walk starts at Levisham Station- take the train on the NYMR- North Yorkshire Moors Railway from Grosmont and hop off at the station. Then climb for stunning views all around, walk through Levisham village and then beside the railway and Pickering Beck to descend back to the station for the return rail journey. 

General Safety Tips: 

Be careful on the narrow path climbing from the station. There are cows in fields and a chance there will be bulls in the fields along the walk and returning back down to Levisham Station. 

                                        The Levisham Station Walk 

Getting There

From Middlesbrough take the A171 past Guisborough and follow it towards Whitby.

Look or a right turn off to Grosmont which passes through Egton and then takes a left turn to Grosmont. The coach and car park before the station is on your left and is £6.00 for all day parking. 

                                   Maps of the Levisham Station walk

The Walk

From the car park head out and turn left and head towards the Grosmont train station.

Dont forget to pick up your train tickets at the ticket office! You can book ahead. Board the train to Levisham which is the train to Pickering. The ride to Levisham Station has lots of great scenery.

Leave the train at Levisham and head off the platform and up the road on your right. 

Before the road climbs look for a right hand sign to a gate and onto a path up to a field.

Eventually you arrive at a gate onto a field. Go through it and head to the right of the line of bushes ahead and at the top head to the right to another gate.

Head to the right and take the left path which climbs up the sloping woodside on a narrow path passing a bench and ending at a step stile.

Turn left and follow the path through two fields until you come to a path which heads into Levisham village.

Head on the path ahead which then enters Levisham village and passes the pretty church.

Head through the village and just as the road leaves the village look for a path to your left and head down it. Then take a right signposted sign to the right on the Tabular Hills walk route.

This is a narrow path down to the road. Cross the road and head onto the wider bridleway ahead.

At the bottom of the track head left and pass the old church ruins.

Head over a footbridge and through a gate.

Head through another gate and onto a field which may have a bull in the field. 

Keep to the path and through two more gates

Head to the right and through a gate walking through a farmyard and cross the railway signposted as Farwath station.

Head over a footbridge on your right and then commence the climb up the track ahead.

At the top at a junction head right onto a road which passes houses and farms

After a while the road ends and keep ahead on the track.

Keep your eyes peeled for a path to your right and head onto this path keeping to the higher path when it splits.

Go over a stile into a field and head onto the grass path which curves down back into the woods. There may be cows in the field which can be avoided by keeping to the edge of the field.

Head down back to the railway by negotiating the path which ends up at a footbridge.

Turn left onto the road and head back to the station for the return train to Grosmont. The station has some great features to investigate whilst you wait for your train.

Levisham Station

The railway serving Levisham Station was originally opened by the Whitby and Pickering Railway in 1836. The W&P was an isolated horse worked railway engineered by George Stephenson, it did not have stations as we would understand them today, instead tending to follow stage coach practice. An engraving by George Dodgson entitled 'Hailing the Coach', which appeared in the 1836 guide to the W&P written by Henry Belcher, depicts a passenger hailing a coach on the W&P at Raindale just over a mile north of Levisham Station.

Levisham

Levisham is a small village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, located within the North York Moors National Park about 5 miles (8 km) north of Pickering. At the 2011 Census the population was less than 100. Details are included in the civil parish of Lockton.

The village is recorded as a very small settlement in the Domesday Book of 1086. The name of the village was first recorded in 1086 as Leuecen, and it derives from Old Norse, meaning the farmstead of Leofgeat's people. The village is believed to have moved location due to the Black Death in the 14th century. The Church of St Mary, a grade II* listed building which dates to the 11th century, is now isolated from the current village, and is thought to mark the site of a Deserted Medieval Village. The church fell into disuse in the 1950s, though burials continue, and the main place of Anglican worship is the Church of St John the Baptist, which is in Levisham village, some 2,600 feet (800 m) away from St Mary's.