WALK 6 KILDALE TO CASTLETON via Baysdale Abbey, Hograh Moor & Westerdale

Alight the train at Kildale station leave the platform and proceed to a metalled road past the steps on your right which lead to the church (worth a visit).Proceed until you come to road junction with a tea room on the left and turn right past the shop/post office through the village until you come to a road on the left signed Cleveland Way.

Follow the CW along the road for about 2 miles crossing over 2 cattle grids where at the second you leave the road left along a bridleway clearly marked on the ground to a gate in a wall.From there you will see farm building to the left and a large building to the right and it is the latter which was built from the stone which was Baysdale Abbey.

The route is now directly in front through a gate but you must swing right and around to the gate.Through the gate and straight over the field to a stile on to a metalled road where  you go left over a bridge over the stream and into the farm. You bear left then right through the farmyard and over the stream again and walk along keeping the stream to your left.

Along this quite good farm road through 1 gate until you reach another gate where you turn right and uphill towards another farm. At this farm you go left into the farmyard and bear right through and very steeply uphill into some woods. At the end of the climb and at the edge of the woods you reach a gate where once through turn left.

When you next reach a gate hole through a stone wall which is after about  600 yards you go through it and bear right uphill along a clearly defined track. Follow this track up and over the hill for about a mile and where you descend bearing left you will see a gulley on the right. You need to go down the gulley and up the other side which is Hograh Moor. Part of the way along you will see the way down and stepping stones over the stream and a track up the other side.

When you have climbed the other side you come upon a memorial stone to Alan Clegg 1936 -1981. Pass this and keep to the well defined track for about 1000 yards until you reach a metalled road. Turn right on the road and reach a gate and beyond it make for the house down to the left.

At this go through the gate in front of the house past it and through the gate  into the field on your left. In the field turn right  and keep the wall on the right through another gate until you reach another house. There you go right into the garden and straight on over a stile into a field. Straight across the field where you reach a stile into the next field and once in that field bear right to the corner of the field through a gate.

From there you go in a 10 o'clock direction to a bridge over a stream and over it through a gate on the right and sharp left steeply up a little hill to a gate into a field. At 11 o'clock across the field you reach a stile over a wall on to ametelled road where you turn left. Follow this right then left for 8oo yards to a road junction where you turn right to another road 50 yards on the left.

At the end of this road is a crossroad wher you go straight on down over a stream and up the other side for nearly 2 miles to another road junction where you turn left. Along this road for about a mile where a road comes in from the right but you keep on for 400 yards until you reach Castleton.

Go into Castleton and immediately in front of the Moorlands Hotel go down a steep hill to a metalled road where you turn right for 400 yards and over the River Esk for a well earned pint in the Eskdale Inn before catching the train home.