Goathland & Mallyan Spout ~ Medium Walk

Distance Covered: 3 miles   Time to complete walk: 2h 30m

Safety Tips: Be careful on the rocky path to Mallyan Spout as the path will be slippery. A walking stick will come in handy on this walk

A walk with something to offer everyone- visit the setting to the popular TV series Heartbeat, look at the steam trains in the station and then continue your walk to the stunning waterfall Mallyan Spout.

Mallyan Spout

 

 

Route of the Goathland and Mallyan Spout walk

 

 

Getting There

 

From Middlesbrough, go up Ormesby Bank and take the first left turning onto Middlesbrough Road. Follow the road to Whitby on the A171. On the roundabout before Whitby, turn right into Sleights on the A169. Follow this road up the steep bank until you reach the right hand turning to Goathland. Parking can be found in Goathland at a car park on the right in the centre of the village, which you pay for as you enter at the toll booth.

 

The Walk

 

From the car park, turn right and follow the road passing all the souvenir and ice cream shops, you can have a quick explore of the Heartbeat themed cars and set locations before your walk. The village is still popular due to the TV series being filmed there. Various sets such as the garage and vintage cars are in the village.

 

Garage

Vintage police car

 

 

Follow the road out of Goathland to the left which will lead you to the Mallyan Spout Hotel. When you reach the hotel, follow the path signposted to Mallyan Spout which passes via the side of the hotel.

 

                                                       Sheep grazing on the road

Follow the path until you come to the path leading down to the waterfall. This path falls gradually and then you will come onto rocks and the path will become slippery and care needs to be taken on this path. Eventually you will come to the waterfall, which is a fantastic sight.

Views of Mallyan Spout

 



Follow the path from Mallyan Spout until you reach a signpost signed to Beck Hole which follows the path to the right.

 

 

Rocky path

 

 





Follow the path through several gates until you reach Incline Cottage, near the village of Beck Hole. You now need to turn right and follow the old "Grosmont Rail Trail" back towards Goathland.  You will see a kissing gate and then turn right along Beck Hole Road. This will take you back into Goathland. Take some time out to look at the steam trains that frequently pass through the station.

 

Steam train at Goathland station



 



Goathland

 

Goathland is a village and civil parish in the Scarborough district of North Yorkshire, England. It is in the North York Moors national park due north of Pickering, off the A169 to Whitby. It has a station on the steam-operated North Yorkshire Moors Railway line.
According to the 2011 UK census, Goathland parish had a population of 438, an increase on the 2001 UK census figure of 407.
Goathland village is 500 feet above sea level and has a history extending from Viking times. In 1109 King Henry I granted land to Osmund the priest and brethren of the hermitage of Goathland, then called Godelandia for the soul of his mother Queen Matilda, who had died in 1083. This is recorded in a charter held at Whitby Abbey. The village was a spa town in the 19th century. There are many hotels and guest houses in the village, the largest, the Mallyan Spout Hotel, is named after a nearby waterfall. There is a caravan site, reached by driving along the track which is the site of the older railway route, 1835 to 1860.
Much of the surrounding land is owned by the Duchy of Lancaster. The Duchy's tenants have a common right extending for hundreds of years to graze their black faced sheep on the village green and surrounding moors
The village was the setting of the fictional village of Aidensfield in the Heartbeat television series set in the 1960s. Many landmarks from the series are recognisable, including the stores, garage/funeral directors, the public house and the railway station. The pub is called the Goathland Hotel, but in the series is the Aidensfield Arms. After filming for some years a replica was built in the studio.
Goathland railway station is on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. The railway is run by a charitable trust with some paid staff but is mostly operated by volunteers, running nearly all the year including Christmas. It carries more than 250,000 passengers a year and is the second-longest preserved line in Britain. It links Grosmont in the north with Pickering in the south, along the route of the Whitby - Pickering line built by George Stephenson in 1835 and upgraded in 1865. From 2007 some trains on the railway were timetabled to run to Whitby and in March 2014 work began in Whitby station to replace a platform and allow more North Yorkshire Moors Railway services to be timetabled Whitby - Pickering.
Goathland railway station was used as the location for Hogsmeade railway station in the Harry Potter films, and the line filmed for Harry's journey.

 



Osmotherley ~ Medium Walk

 

Distance Covered: 6 miles   Time to complete walk: 4 hours

Safety Tips: Depending on the time of year you complete this walk, overgrown bracken can hamper your way forward- use a walking stick to clear the way ahead. Take care especially towards the end of the walk when you descend onto the road to Cod Beck and if unable to find the path always remember safety first and turn back and follow the road back to Osmotherley

Starting from the popular village of Osmotherley, this walk climbs through woodland and then down through fields and bracken to the Cod Beck Reservoir. A detour can be made to visit the nearby Mount Grace Priory. Take a walking stick to help you negotiate the bracken on your route.

 

 

The Osmotherley Walk

Getting There

From Middlesbrough follow the A19 south until you come to the sign for Osmotherley. This is a left turning after the Mount Grace Priory turning. Parking which can be sparse particularly at weekends, can be found at the roadside either in Osmotherley or on the road towards the Cod Beck Reservoir.

 

Map of the Osmotherley Walk

                     

The Walk

After parking on the roadside either in Osmotherley village or on the road towards Cod Beck reservoir, follow the road out of Osmotherley towards Cod Beck reservoir. Look for a left turning signposted to Scarth Nick.

 

Scarth Nick Sign

Follow this track up as it rises and look for a fork in the road. Keep left at the fork in the road. The right fork will be signposted to Lady Chapel.

     
                    Take left fork in the path

This stony track ends at Chapelwood Farm, and ahead of you will be a grass track through a gate. Go through the gate and follow the track until you reach a gate leading into the woods.

     Gate to grass track and gate to the woods

Go through the gate into the woods. A few paces on the track forks. Take the right branch.

 

Take right fork in path

 

Follow this path which rises steadily. Near the top it bends more steeply to the right. As it starts to bend back to the left look for a linear path to the right which is partly covered by bracken.

 

 

Path to the right 



Follow this path which will shortly bend to the left to come to a field gate. This path can be covered with bracken in the summer. Your stick will come in handy  here!. 

 

 

Bracken on path

 

Gate to field

 



Follow the left edge of the field until you meet a walled road. Turn left and walk past some agricultural buildings until you come to you reach a footpath sign to the right.

 



 

Footpath sign

 

Field track

 

Follow the field path by the wall until you come to a stile.

 



 

Stile to bracken path

 



Follow the path through bracken, using your walking stick to clear the way. Descending carefully ensure you remain on the right side path with the valley below to your left. Eventually you will descend to meet a stone wall and follow this along to the right. Go through a gap in the crossing wall, then turn down left on a track to meet the road.

 

Cod Beck Resorvoir can now be accessed further down this road to the left.

 

 

Cod Beck Reservoir

 

Cross over the dam and follow a path that leads into the forest.

 

 

 

Path into the forest

  

  

After about  100metres take the second right turning which will take you into the forest.

 

 

Path into forest

 



Follow this path and shortly you will meet another path crossing to the right at a fence. Turn right and follow the path to a kissing gate. Go through the kissing gate and follow the path down to a building which is the Osmotherley Youth Hostel.

 

 

Youth Hostel

 



Now you can follow this road back up and onto the main road to Osmotherley. Osmotherley has three pubs for well earned refreshments.

 

Osmotherley

 

It is likely that Osmotherley means the clearing or 'ley' (pronounced lee), belonging to a Viking called 'Asmund' or a Saxon called 'Osmund'. There have been a number spellings of the Osmotherley over the centuries: the name appeared in the Domesday Book as Asmundrelac; it has also been known as Osmundeslay and Osmonderlay.
However, fanciful local legend says that Osmotherley was named after the mother of a villager named Oswald or Osmund, who supposedly went out to gather firewood in the winter. When she did not return her son became anxious and went out to look for her. He found her lying in the snow, dead or dying from the cold. Because he was not able to carry her back, he lay down beside her and died himself. It is where Oswald's mother lies, hence Osmotherley.
The village school was founded 1857, the present building dates from 1878. The school is now known as Osmotherley Primary School. It is located on School Lane and has 49 pupils.
Osmotherley boasts three pubs within a 55-yard (50 m) radius: the Queen Catherine, the Three Tuns and the Golden Lion. The village was featured on BBC News and Sky News during the Wedding of Prince William of Wales and Catherine Middleton, as it is the only village in the country to boast a pub with the name 'Queen Catherine'.
The village is served by a newsagents, a 'Top Shop' store, a fish and chip shop, a Youth Hostel and an antique store.
The shop that has served Osmotherley since 1786, 'Thompson', along with a recently opened Art and Craft Shop have recently closed.
The public toilets are situated by the side of the Village Hall (which in turn is next to Church House, which hosts book sales and tea sales on Sundays and Bank Holidays.) These toilets have been voted the best in the UK on several occasions and are filled with flowers and decorated with pictures of horses.

 



Castle Howard ~ Easy Walk

Distance Covered: 5.25 miles   Time to complete walk: 2 hours

Safety Tips: None - A very safe walk

Walk around the estate of the magnificent Castle Howard in this walk. Hardly any climbing required and the walk will take about 2 hours and leave you spare time to explore the castle and gardens.

 

Castle Howard

 

 

Getting There

 

From Middlesbrough follow the A172 to Stokesley and then follow the B1257 to via Great Broughton to Helmsley. Follow the A170 out of Helmsley and ignore the road going to Sutton Bank. Instead join the B1257 again and follow this until you reach the right turning for Castle Howard. Parking is at the cross roads and can be found on the right near the cross road junction.

 

 

Route of the Castle Howard walk

 

The Walk



 From the parking space turn left and then turn right at the crossroads, to head for Coneysthorpe. Walk through the village and look for a white gate to your right just after a Slow sign in the road.

White gate

 

Go through the gate and head along the track.

 

 

Follow the track

 



When you come to a T junction on the track follow the left path to Bog Hall.

 

Sign to Bog Hall

 



You should reach a farm shortly. Follow the path to the left of the farmhouses.

 

Take left path at farmhouses

 

Follow the Welburn and CW signs. This track follows through a wood and over a bridge, and you should get a good view of the Mausoleum in the distance.



 

 

View of the mausoleum

 

At the next farm buidlings take the right turning onto Centenary Way which is signposted.

 

 

Centenary Way signpost

 

Follow the metalled road and you will see the Pyramid coming into view. As you get closer look for a right turning signposted "Coneysthorpe".

 

 

The Pyramid

 

Follow this path through a cornfield until you reach an elevated bridge.

 

                                                Bridge and view of the Mausoleum

 

Once on bridge you will have views of Castle Howard to your left, the Mausoleum to your right and ahead to your left the Temple of the Four Winds.

 

 

the Temple of the Four Winds

 

Head onto the field bearing left towards the Temple of the Four Winds. This path goes over the ridge, then turns left to the park wall. Follow the wall as it bends left and go through a kissing gate beside a white gate and continue along the track. After about 50 yards, beyond a gate on your left, go left off the track on a grassy path.

 



 

Follow this keeping parallel to the estate wall to another track. Cross the track, then bear half left to reach another track. Turn right here and follow this track back to the white gate in Coneysthorpe. Remember if you lose your way, there is a decent GPS signal here. You can now drive to Castle Howard and explore the buildings and gardens.




 

 

Castle Howard grounds and gardens

 



 

Castle Howard

 

 

Castle Howard is a stately home in North Yorkshire, England, 15 miles (24 km) north of York. It is a private residence, the home of the Carlisle branch of the Howard family for more than 300 years.
Castle Howard is not a true castle, but this term is also used for English country houses erected on the site of a former military castle.
It is familiar to television and film audiences as the fictional "Brideshead", both in Granada Television's 1981 adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited and a two-hour 2008 remake for cinema. Today, it is part of the Treasure Houses of England group of heritage houses.
Building of Castle Howard began in 1699 and took over 100 years to complete to a design by Sir John Vanbrugh for the 3rd Earl of Carlisle. The site was that of the ruined Henderskelfe Castle, which had come into the Howard family in 1566 through the marriage to Lord Dacre's widow of Thomas, 4th Duke of Norfolk.
The house is surrounded by a large estate which, at the time of the 7th Earl of Carlisle, covered over 13,000 acres (5,300 ha) and included the villages of Welburn, Bulmer, Slingsby, Terrington and Coneysthorpe. The estate was served by its own railway station, Castle Howard, from 1845 to the 1950s.
After the death of the 9th Earl in 1911, Castle Howard was inherited by his younger son Geoffrey, with later earls having Naworth Castle as their northern country house. In 1952, the house was opened to the public by the then owner, George Howard, Baron Howard of Henderskelfe. It is currently owned by his son, the Honourable Simon Howard, who grew up at the castle.
In 2003, the grounds were excavated over three days by Channel 4's Time Team, searching for evidence of a local village lost to allow for the landscaping of the estate.

The 3rd Earl of Carlisle first spoke to William Talman, a leading architect, but commissioned Vanbrugh, a fellow member of the Kit-Cat Club, to design the building. Castle Howard was that gentleman-dilettante's first foray into architecture, but he was assisted by Nicholas Hawksmoor.
Vanbrugh's design evolved into a Baroque structure with two symmetrical wings projecting to either side of a north-south axis. The crowning central dome was added to the design at a late stage, after building had begun. Construction began at the east end, with the East Wing constructed from 1701–03, the east end of the Garden Front from 1701–06, the Central Block (including dome) from 1703–06, and the west end of the Garden Front from 1707–09. All are exuberantly decorated in Baroque style, with coronets, cherubs, urns and cyphers, with Roman Doric pilasters on the north front and Corinthian on the South. Many interiors were decorated by Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini.

 

The Earl then turned his energies to the surrounding garden and grounds. Although the complete design is shown in the third volume of Colen Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus, published in 1725, the West Wing was not started when Vanbrugh died in 1726, despite his remonstration with the Earl. The house remained incomplete on the death of the 3rd Earl in 1738, but construction finally started at the direction of the 4th Earl. However, Vanbrugh's design was not completed: the West Wing was built in a contrasting Palladian style to a design by the 3rd Earl's son-in-law, Sir Thomas Robinson. The new wing remained incomplete, with no first floor or roof, at the death of the 4th Earl in 1758; although a roof had been added, the interior remained undecorated by the death of Robinson in 1777. Rooms were completed stage by stage over the following decades, but the whole was not complete until 1811.
A large part of the house was destroyed by a fire which broke out on 9 November 1940. The dome, the central hall, the dining room and the state rooms on the east side were entirely destroyed. Paintings depicting the Fall of Phaeton by Antonio Pellegrini were also damaged. In total, twenty pictures (including two Tintorettos and several valuable mirrors) were lost. The fire took the Malton and York Fire Brigades eight hours to bring under control.
Some of the devastated rooms have been restored over the following decades. In 1960–61 the dome was rebuilt and in the following couple of years, Pellegrini's Fall of Phaeton was recreated on the underside of the dome.
Some were superficially restored for the 2008 filming, and now house an exhibition. The East Wing remains a shell, although it has been restored externally. Castle Howard is one of the largest country houses in England, with a total of 145 rooms.
According to figures released by the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions, nearly 220,000 people visited Castle Howard in 2010.
In 2009 an underwater ground-source heat recovery system was installed under the castle's lake that halved the heating bill.


 

Staithes ~ Medium Walk

Distance Covered: 4.5 miles   Time to complete walk: 2 hours

Safety Tips: Be prepared for some serious inclines on this walk, however the views are worth it. Take care when walking on the cliff edge path.

This walk from the picture postcard fishing village of Staithes, follows the Cleveland Way, with epic views of the coastline and cliffs, and then ends up with  some woodland walking.

 

Staithes

 

Route of the Staithes Walk

Getting There

From Middlesbrough, follow the A174 coastal route via Loftus Bank, the Staithes turn off is a left turning after you pass through Easington.

The Walk

Parking can be found at the top of Staithes on your right. The road into Staithes is very steep and parking at the top avoids driving your car down the bank on the narrow road into Staithes.

From the car park turn right and follow the bank down into Staithes admiring the fishing villages cobbled streets and quaint buildings. There's a nice pub on the sea front which you can return to after the walk if your thirsty for a drink!
You can also explore the village a bit before your walk and have a bite to eat. Staithes is a unique village and merits extra time to explore!

Leave the village by a narrow street to the right of the Cod and Lobster pub. You should pass the house where Captain James Cook once lived and follow the coastal path up a series of steps. This is the climbing part of the walk, and at least you get it out of the way at the beginning. The climb is a gradual one. Go past the farm and out onto open fields.

 

Staithes beach

                                           Cleveland Way sign

Once you reach the top of the gradual climb you will be rewarded with stunning coastal views.

 

 

 

Follow the Cleveland Way towards Port Mulgrave. On reaching Port Mulgrave, following the road away from the sea, you should reach an old style telephone box. Turn right opposite the phone box into a lane between two large houses.

 

 

Keep left beyond the houses and cross three fields until you reach the A174 road. Cross  the A174 to reach the slip road opposite and then down some steps. Follow the path down into the woodland valley.

 

 

Cross Dales Beck over a footbridge, then follow the path uphill and to the left.

 

 

Footbridge over Dales Beck

 



 



Turn right at the junction of paths and walk to a gate at the end of the wood. Walk along the long narrow field and go through a short belt of trees. The track now descends steeply towards a wooden bridge by the caravan site.

Cross the bridge and follow the caravan access lane as far as the road.
Turn right at the road and follow it as far as the A174. Cross over and turn left back into Staithes. Now where was that pub again?

Staithes


Staithes has a sheltered harbour, bounded by high cliffs and two long breakwaters. A mile to the west is Boulby Cliff where, for a brief period, alum, a mineral used to improve the strength and permanency of colour when dying cloth, was mined. The mining operation ended when a cheaper chemical method was developed. The ruined remnants of the mines can be seen from the cliff top when walking the Cleveland Way between Staithes and Skinningrove.
Staithes is a destination for geologists researching the Jurassic (Lias), strata in the cliffs surrounding the village. In the early 1990s, a rare fossil of a seagoing dinosaur was discovered after a rockfall between Staithes and Port Mulgrave to the south. This fossil has been the focus of an ongoing project to remove the ancient bones of the creature. Port Mulgrave remains one of the best places on the northern coast to find fossils of ammonites and many visitors spend hours cracking open the shaly rocks on the shoreline in the hope of finding a perfect specimen.
The permanent population of the village has dwindled due to more than half of the houses being second homes owned by outsiders from cities such as Leeds and York and further afield. Even though fewer than half of the houses in the village are occupied by local people, the traditions of the village have not yet died; many of the local women still wear Staithes bonnets, and the Staithes Fisher Men's Choir is still going strong. There is active local participation in the local RNLI Lifeboat crew.
The CBeebies series Old Jack's Boat, starring Bernard Cribbins, is set in and filmed in Staithes, with Old Jack's house located at 4 Cowbar Bank in the town.
There is a local pub crawl known as the "Roxby Run". This starts at the "Fox and Hounds" in the nearby village of Dalehouse then goes to Staithes Athletic Club, the "Captain Cook Inn", the "Black Lion" (now closed) the "Royal George" before finishing at the "Cod and Lobster" on the harbour.