Hornsea ~ Medium Walk

Distance Covered: 6 miles Time to Complete Walk 3 hours

Suitable for dog walking: Yes

Discover this little gem of a seaside town that has all what a great seaside town has to offer, nice beaches, great views, fish and chips, and ice cream. This walk discovers another side to Hornsea, visiting Hornsea Mere with its cafe and birdlife. Then back to Hornsea on its disused railway line. A great day out!

General Safety Tips: Watch out for cyclists on the railway path.

The Hornsea Walk

Getting There

Use the postcode HU18 1NJ for the Eastgate car park for the start of the walk for your SatNav.

From Middlesbrough follow the A171 to Whitby and then head right towards and through Scarborough. Then head on the A165 towards Bridlington. Keep on the A165 and then turn left onto the B1242 into Hornsea. Parking at the Eastgate car park is £4.80 for all day parking.

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The Walk 

From the car park head left up Eastgate.

Cross over the road and keep ahead past the hospital and park on your left.

Keep left as the road bends

When you reach a road, cross over and head down the road ahead.

When you come to a green, turn left and follow the road around. Turn right into a road and then at a T Junction turn right into Hornsea Mere.

Hornsea Mere is a lake and has a cafe and boathouse and great views of the birdife - a great pitstop!

Head back out and keep ahead and then turn right at a junction. 

Follow the pavement until you reach a roundabout with a sculpture in the middle of it.

Head right onto Hull Road and follow the pavement until you come to a gate onto Hornsea Mere on your right.

Follow the grass track with the Mere on your right.

Go through a gate and follow the field edge on the left.

Go through another gate and keep on the track.

At a crossroads turn left and follow the track down to a gate.

Climb over the gate and turn left and follow the road to a T junction which is Hull Road.

Turn right and follow the pavement until you come to a path on your right before the bridge.

Turn left down a slope and then join the trans pennine rail trail by turning left.

Follow the path until you come to the end. Turn right at the junction.

Turn left and follow the road to a main road crossroads.

Cross over the road to the right hand path which rejoins the trans pennine rail trail again.

Follow the trail over a bridge until you emerge onto Hornsea seafront again.

Head past some monuments to the Trans Pennine trail and pass some amusements back to the seafront.

Great fish and chips can be eaten here!. Turn left and head along the promenade

Follow the promenade round until you come to a path on your left which heads back up to the top.

At the top turn left and follow the road which ends up back at the car park!

Hornsea

Hornsea is a seaside town and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The settlement dates to at least the early medieval period. The town was expanded in the Victorian era with the coming of the Hull and Hornsea Railway in 1864. In the First World War, the mere was briefly the site of RNAS Hornsea Mere, a seaplane base. During the Second World War, the town and beach were heavily fortified against invasion.

The civil parish encompasses Hornsea town; the natural lake, Hornsea Mere; and the lost or deserted villages of Hornsea Beck, Northorpe and Southorpe. Structures of note in the parish include the medieval parish church of St Nicholas, Bettison's Folly, Hornsea Mere and the sea front promenade.

The economy includes a mix of tourism and small manufacturing. Most notably, Hornsea Pottery was established in Hornsea in 1949 and closed in 2000. Modern Hornsea still functions as a coastal resort and has large caravan sites to the north and south.

The soft soil and low-lying geography result in consistent coastal erosion that threatens some of the infrastructure of the community. This is expected to worsen as climate change causes sea level rise. In some areas, residents have already been forced to take a managed retreat.