Distance Covered: 6.5 miles Time to complete walk: 2.5 hours
Suitable for dog walking: Yes
Total Steps: approx. 13,500
Safety Tips: If walking after rain take a walking stick if muddy. When on the road, walk on the side facing oncoming traffic.
A nice straight forward walk, great for walkers in East Yorkshire. Walk through woodlands, and minor roads passing views of the Humber Estuary near the end of the walk. Welton has a great pub and a church near a pond which makes the church look like its floating on water. Parking can be found free of charge outside the church. Check out the George and Dragon pub in which it has been told that the infamous highwayman Dick Turpin was caught and arrested! Look out for Xanadu in Welton village...
The Welton walk
Getting There
From Middlesbrough follow the A19 to the M1 southbound. Join the M62 at junction 32a. Follow the M62 which merges into the A63. Exit the A63 onto S Lawn Way which is a left turnoff. Then at the first roundabout turn left onto Melton Bottom. Then at a junction turn right and into Welton. Parking can be found near the church.
Map of the Welton walk
The Walk
From your parking spot walk up Cowgate and to a road junction and a grassy triangle.
St Helens Church
Head to the grassy triangle
Take the left hand lane which is signposted as Yorkshire Wolds Way Brantingham.
Yorkshire Wolds signpost
Take the lane on the left
Follow the lane onto a smaller path which enters onto the Welton Dale estate.
Head down onto the path
Signpost for the Yorkshire Wolds Way
Head into the estate passing a small hidden lake and through a gate.
Welton Dale Estate
Pass the small lake
Go through the gate
The path now curves onto open land with the woods to your left. Soon you go through another gate.
Follow the path
Go through the gate
The path narrows through woodland. Head through the wood until you emerge at a junction.
Keep on the path
Keep to the right
Fallen tree
Emerge onto the track
Turn right heading towards the line of trees on your left where a path continues to the left with the treeline. Follow a smaller path onwards to a junction in the path.
Turn right and head for the treeline to the left
Turn left onto a smaller path
Junction in the path
The path then bends to the right passing a lone tree. Keep on the path until you come to a junction with a signpost on your left.
Welton is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire England. The parish extends to the bank of the Humber Estuary at its southern extreme, and into the Yorkshire Wolds in the northern part. The A63 road and Hull to Selby railway line both bisect the parish east-west south of Melton and Welton.
The civil parish is formed by the villages of Welton and Melton and the hamlet of Wauldby. According to the 2011 UK census, Welton parish had a population of 2,176, an increase on the 2001 UK census figure of 1,560. Welton village is situated approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) north-east of the town of Brough on the north side of the A63 road to Kingston upon Hull. It is on the Yorkshire Wolds
Way National Trail a long distance footpath.
Major landmarks in the parish include Welton Waters, a former clay pit, and home of Welton Waters Adventure Centre and Welton Sailing Club; Melton Bottom Quarry, a chalk quarry; and the Melton West and Melton Park industrial estates. The exposed boulder clay at Red Cliff on the Humber bank is an archaeological site returning Roman deposits. Minor landmarks and sites of interest include Nut Wood and Wauldby Scrogs (now a Woodland Trust property), and the Raikes mausoleum within the wooded valley of Welton Dale.
Welton village lies at the southern end of Welton dale; both village and valley have been long appreciated for their picturesque qualities. The Church of St Helen is at the centre of the village, with a defunct mill pond to the north and west. Most of the village's housing is of brick, predominantly red, some painted or rendered in with most buildings two storied, either Georgian or Victorian in style.
Welton was recorded in the Doomsday survey of the 11th century, then a small village with 53 persons recorded and no church,the name derives from the old English wella (spring) and tūn meaning "farm by the spring(s)"; the area is the site of several springs, (see also gipseys) including St Annes Well in the grounds of the former Welton House.
In 1519 the first recorded instance of an accidental fatal shooting in England was recorded at Welton. The highwayman Dick Turpin was charged with horse theft from Thomas Creasy at Welton in 1739 and later tried and hanged in York, in local legend he was arrested at the Green Dragon in Welton.
Enclosure of the township was enabled by laws passed in 1752 and 1772. The Williamson's, merchants of Hull undertook much of the tree plantation along the roads around Welton, and in Welton Dale. Welton Mill located at the northern edge of the village at the bottom of Welton dale was constructed in the late 1700s and early 1800s, and altered in 1861; it is a five-storey brick built building, with a breastshot water wheel of 35 ft (11 m) diameter. Raikes mausoleum at the northern end of the dale close to Wauldby was built 1818.
The village's population increased from 449 in 1801 to 672 in 1832, in 1861 it was 688. By the 1855 the village was well established; in addition to modest dwellings there were substantial houses and halls within and on the village's periphery: Welton Grange (about 1741), Welton Hall (about 1770), Welton House (rebuilt 1769/9), Spring Hill (later Welton Manor, built 1820), Welton Hill (1830) Welton Garth (1830s), and the vicarage of the church of St Helen's. The mill (High Mill) and pond at the northern outskirts of the village at the bottom of Melton Dale were also established. In addition to the parish church several non-conformist missions had been established by the 1850s including meeting places for Wesleyan, Unitarian, Primitive and Independents, both Weslyans and Primitives had chapels built in 1815 and 1869 respectively.
Welton House was demolished in 1952, St Anne's Community Special School was established on part of the site in 1974.
Welton was made a conservation area in 1974, several village buildings built during the 18th and 19th century are grade II listed, as are the larger houses of Welton Hill, Welton Lodge, Welton Grange, Welton Manor, and Welton Hill. The Green Dragon, Welton Mill, St Helen's church and the memorial fountain on the village green are also listed.
It has been speculated that a church existed in Welton before 1100, the current church is thought to date from the reign of William Rufus; coins from the period were found in the foundations of part of the church during its 19th-century restoration. The church was restored several times through its history; in the 1860s a substantial restoration of the church took place, at a cost of £6,000 funded by a Miss Broadley of Welton. The restoration was by George Gilbert Scott, resulting in a church in a 13th-century gothic revival style; the resulting structure was essentially rebuilt and added a south aisle and north transept, with some 15th-century columns and arches, and a piscina retained, a scalloped column capital, an effigy of a knight, and a lancet window date to the 12th and 13th centuries. The restoration also introduced stained glass windows by William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones, and by Jean-Baptiste Capronnier
The church was grade II* listed in 1968.
Take the left path at the junction which bends to the left. Then follow the path again near the trees.
Follow the path as it bends to the left
Keep on the path ahead
You then come to Wauldby Dam which is hidden to your left. Bend round to the left at a fork to the left and turn right and follow another path ahead beside the trees again.
Follow the path to the left
Wauldby Dam
Follow the path with the trees to your left
Follow the path as it veers to the right
Pass the lone tree
Turn left at the signpost
Turn left and follow the path until you emerge onto a road.
Follow the path
Emerge onto the road
Cross the road and keep on the road ahead. Then keep ahead as the road bends to the left following the signpost to the Yorkshire Wolds Brantingham.
Keep on the road ahead
Keep ahead onto the lane signposted Yorkshire Wolds
The path becomes grassy and then merges ahead with a tarmac path. Keep ahead on this path.
Follow the grassy path
Keep ahead on the tarmac path
Soon you pass South Wold House drive and then look for a signpost into woods on your left.
South Wolds House drive
Turn left into the woods
Follow the woodland path until it narrows and descends to a fence.
Follow the woodland path
Turn right at the fence
Go through a metal gate and follow the woodland path ahead which widens.
Go through the gate
Follow the path into the woods
Go through a few more gates and then the path turns to the left.
Go through the gate
Turn left after the gate
Follow the path and look to the right at clearings for a great view of the Humber Estuary.
View to the right of the Humber Estuary
Follow the path ahead
Go through a gate onto a road and ahead at the junction follow the road to the left.
Go through the gate
Keep to the left at the road junction
Follow this road until you come back into Welton again and turn right and follow the road back into Welton and the church. Did you spot Xanadu?
Benches on road
Head back into Welton
Welton
The civil parish is formed by the villages of Welton and Melton and the hamlet of Wauldby. According to the 2011 UK census, Welton parish had a population of 2,176, an increase on the 2001 UK census figure of 1,560. Welton village is situated approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) north-east of the town of Brough on the north side of the A63 road to Kingston upon Hull. It is on the Yorkshire Wolds
Way National Trail a long distance footpath.
Major landmarks in the parish include Welton Waters, a former clay pit, and home of Welton Waters Adventure Centre and Welton Sailing Club; Melton Bottom Quarry, a chalk quarry; and the Melton West and Melton Park industrial estates. The exposed boulder clay at Red Cliff on the Humber bank is an archaeological site returning Roman deposits. Minor landmarks and sites of interest include Nut Wood and Wauldby Scrogs (now a Woodland Trust property), and the Raikes mausoleum within the wooded valley of Welton Dale.
Welton village lies at the southern end of Welton dale; both village and valley have been long appreciated for their picturesque qualities. The Church of St Helen is at the centre of the village, with a defunct mill pond to the north and west. Most of the village's housing is of brick, predominantly red, some painted or rendered in with most buildings two storied, either Georgian or Victorian in style.
Welton was recorded in the Doomsday survey of the 11th century, then a small village with 53 persons recorded and no church,the name derives from the old English wella (spring) and tūn meaning "farm by the spring(s)"; the area is the site of several springs, (see also gipseys) including St Annes Well in the grounds of the former Welton House.
In 1519 the first recorded instance of an accidental fatal shooting in England was recorded at Welton. The highwayman Dick Turpin was charged with horse theft from Thomas Creasy at Welton in 1739 and later tried and hanged in York, in local legend he was arrested at the Green Dragon in Welton.
Enclosure of the township was enabled by laws passed in 1752 and 1772. The Williamson's, merchants of Hull undertook much of the tree plantation along the roads around Welton, and in Welton Dale. Welton Mill located at the northern edge of the village at the bottom of Welton dale was constructed in the late 1700s and early 1800s, and altered in 1861; it is a five-storey brick built building, with a breastshot water wheel of 35 ft (11 m) diameter. Raikes mausoleum at the northern end of the dale close to Wauldby was built 1818.
The village's population increased from 449 in 1801 to 672 in 1832, in 1861 it was 688. By the 1855 the village was well established; in addition to modest dwellings there were substantial houses and halls within and on the village's periphery: Welton Grange (about 1741), Welton Hall (about 1770), Welton House (rebuilt 1769/9), Spring Hill (later Welton Manor, built 1820), Welton Hill (1830) Welton Garth (1830s), and the vicarage of the church of St Helen's. The mill (High Mill) and pond at the northern outskirts of the village at the bottom of Melton Dale were also established. In addition to the parish church several non-conformist missions had been established by the 1850s including meeting places for Wesleyan, Unitarian, Primitive and Independents, both Weslyans and Primitives had chapels built in 1815 and 1869 respectively.
Welton House was demolished in 1952, St Anne's Community Special School was established on part of the site in 1974.
Welton was made a conservation area in 1974, several village buildings built during the 18th and 19th century are grade II listed, as are the larger houses of Welton Hill, Welton Lodge, Welton Grange, Welton Manor, and Welton Hill. The Green Dragon, Welton Mill, St Helen's church and the memorial fountain on the village green are also listed.
It has been speculated that a church existed in Welton before 1100, the current church is thought to date from the reign of William Rufus; coins from the period were found in the foundations of part of the church during its 19th-century restoration. The church was restored several times through its history; in the 1860s a substantial restoration of the church took place, at a cost of £6,000 funded by a Miss Broadley of Welton. The restoration was by George Gilbert Scott, resulting in a church in a 13th-century gothic revival style; the resulting structure was essentially rebuilt and added a south aisle and north transept, with some 15th-century columns and arches, and a piscina retained, a scalloped column capital, an effigy of a knight, and a lancet window date to the 12th and 13th centuries. The restoration also introduced stained glass windows by William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones, and by Jean-Baptiste Capronnier
The church was grade II* listed in 1968.
