Yorkshire Walkers (Meet-Up) Group

Second run-out for this walk. A dead flat walk unless you classify walking on top of a flood embankment as a ‘hill’!

This is a walk in the area between York & Selby (off the A19) and is also accessible via the Naburn turn-off, very close to the A64/A19 junction. We start from the village of Wistow and head across fields & footbridges over to the neighbouring village of Cawood. From here we pick up the path along the flood embankment with the Ouse guiding us back to our start point.

The walk will be led at a steady pace: not too fast, not too slow. Please be ready to start walking at the advertised time.

Walk fee: £3. No dogs please. Bring packed lunch/drink/snacks with you.

Start point/Parking: if travelling along the B1223 from Cawood, when you get to Wistow you will pass the Black Swan pub on your rhs with the church on your lhs, then take your 2nd left (sp Village Hall), which is Pinfold Hill. Roadside parking available on this street and adjoining streets. We will meet outside the pub, postcode of which is YO8 3UU.
After-walk refreshment at the Black Swan.

I have no formal walk leader or first-aid qualifications and the Group does not have insurance. When you RSVP for any walk, you accept that you remain responsible for your own safety at all times. You are required to respect the walk leader and be mindful of the safety of others. Please keep to the pace of the group and don’t go off ahead even if you think you know the route.

PLEASE NOTE: this walk is subject to a reasonable number of people signing up, given the fact I will have a two hour round trip, travelling 88 miles for a short walk!

Newmillerdam lies on the A61, three miles south of Wakefield.
This walk encompasses both Newmillerdam Country Park and Seckar Wood. We start from the pay & display car park at the western end of the lake (the main car park in the area alongside the A61, which is £2 for four hours), opposite the Fox & Hounds pub. Postcode of the pub is WF2 6QQ.

We take a pleasant stroll alongside the lake past the grade 2 listed boathouse and the causeway. Having reached the far end of the lake, we cross a bridge and go up into the woods. An enjoyable jaunt through the woods brings us to another bridge, which crosses an old railway trackbed then, having crossed the A61, we head into Seckar Wood, a Site of Special Scientific Interest. The path ascends to heathland before descending and along through a series of fields before finding our way back to our start point via back streets.

The walk will be led at a steady pace: not too fast, not too slow. Please be ready to start walking at the advertised time.

Walk fee: £2. No dogs please.

After-walk refreshment at the pub across the road from the car park.

I have no formal walk leader or first-aid qualifications and the Group does not have insurance. When you RSVP for any walk, you accept that you remain responsible for your own safety at all times. You are required to respect the walk leader and be mindful of the safety of others. Please keep to the pace of the group and don’t go off ahead even if you think you know the route.

A walk not led for a couple of years. An easy, flat walk ideal for the muddy season as a chunk of it is along quiet country lanes/pavements although there are field tracks too. En-route we pass through/skirt around four villages, namely: Askham Richard, Bilbrough, Copmanthorpe & Askham Bryan.

Start point: Roadside parking in Askham Richard village centre, where there is a village green, a pond and the now closed Rose & Crown pub. Car sharing is recommended for this one

The postcode of the pub is YO23 3PT. The village can be easily accessed from the A64 or via the B1224 Wetherby road and also York’s northern ring road (A1237).

The walk will be led at a steady pace: not too fast, not too slow. Please be ready to start walking at the advertised time.

Walk fee: £3. No dogs please. Bring snacks/drink with you for a short morning break, we’ll be finished by lunch-time.

After-walk refreshment: The Grange Coffee Shop & Garden Centre, just along the road from our start point.

I have no formal walk leader or first-aid qualifications and the Group does not have insurance. When you RSVP for any walk, you accept that you remain responsible for your own safety at all times. You are required to respect the walk leader and be mindful of the safety of others. Please keep to the pace of the group and don’t go off ahead even if you think you know the route.

Our first visit to Boroughbridge this year! An easy-to-get-to walk for many of our members, given its location in the A1 corridor and an easy, flat walk of a decent distance.

The walk not only includes two of Yorkshire’s great waterways but also two battlefields!

We will meet on the cobbled Hall Square with the war memorial (see photo) before walking down Fishergate and past the historic 17thc Crown Hotel, which used to provide stabling for 100 horses in the coaching days.

After crossing the site of the Battle of Boroughbridge, we find ourselves on a riverside trail following the river Ure to its confluence with the river Swale, which we then follow upstream towards the impressive Myton Bridge.

From here, we pick up more grassy paths and tracks and then a stretch of roadside walking (always good at this time of year!) brings us to the hamlet of Milby and thence back to the river Ure and a different route back to our start point.

Our route includes riverside trails, field edge paths and roadside walking.

The walk will be led at a steady pace: not too fast, not too slow. Please be ready to start walking at the advertised time.

Walk fee: £3. No dogs please. Bring a packed lunch/snacks/drinks with you.

After-walk refreshment at the 13thc Black Bull Inn at the top of Boroughbridge High Street.

Parking: use Back Lane car park, almost adjacent to our meeting point, car park fee by way of donation in the box at the entrance. Toilets available! Postcode is YO51 9AN.

I have no formal walk leader or first-aid qualifications and the Group does not have insurance. When you RSVP for any walk, you accept that you remain responsible for your own safety at all times. You are required to respect the walk leader and be mindful of the safety of others. Please keep to the pace of the group and don’t go off ahead even if you think you know the route.