| Name : |
Cleveland Hills, North Yorkshire Moors |
| Location : |
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| Rating : |
Medium |
| Length : |
17 miles |
| Type : |
Cross Country |
| Total Ascent : |
2378 ft |
| Total Decent : |
2378 ft |
| Time : |
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| Stiles/Gates : |
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| Parking : |
Clay Bank car park (2.3 miles south of
Great Broughton) |
| Description : |
These moors can be really bleak in winter
but, if the weather on the day is good, most of the route stands up well
to wet weather. Even in the height of summer it's advisable to carry
waterproofs and wind proofs as there really is little shelter and no
easy escape route. The area around Clay Bank and Round Hill is popular
with day-trippers in the summer so take care of walkers. |
| GPS Data : |
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information
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- Turn left out of Clay Bank car park onto the B1257 and
look for a gate, 300m further on, on your left. Go through this and follow
the path up onto Carr Ridge. Continue through another gate and keep left
when the path forks. Follow the cairns onto Round Hill and keep straight
ahead to Cockayne Head. Descend to a junction and turn right to a gate at
Bloworth Crossing.
- Fork right at the gate and stay on this track for 3.6km,
ignoring trails on both sides. After Cockam Cross, the track starts to
descend slightly. Look for a double-track bridleway on the right. Take this
and follow it straight ahead at a x-roads. Descend steeply to the corner of
the woods and continue above to a gate. Drop through a field and then
another gate to the road.
- Turn right and descend to Bransdale Lodge where you keep
left. Continue for 3km keeping right at a fork near Breck House. Climb
steeply up the side of a wood and then, at the top, turn right onto a good
bridleway. Follow this for 1.7lm to a junction at Stump Cross.
- Keep left, following the well-surfaced track past two
huts. Drop steeply into Tripsdale and cross the beck to climb out the other
side. Follow the track around the edge of Urra Moor and keep right at the
next T-junction to go on for 2km, where the track heads around to the right.
- Turn left here and descend steeply on a loose track.
Approximately 100m before the wall, turn right onto a faint single-track
bridleway. This leads to a wall where you turn right. The track is quite
faint in places but stay with the wall through a boggy area and onto Urra
Moor where it becomes clearer. Continue along the line of the earthworks
around the escarpment. After 1.5km, the track dips steeply into a beck and
then climbs gently up, for another 1km, to meet the Cleveland Way on Carr
Ridge.
- Turn left through the gate and descend (carefully) the
track that you climbed earlier. Retrace your outward tyre tracks back to the
car park.
Getting there:
By Car: Follow the B1257 south from Stokesley
(A172) or north from Helmsley (A170)
By Railway: Not an option
Facilities:
Snacks at the car park
