Walking and Cycling
Walking
A walk starting from Low Penhowe
Explore the northern fringe of the Yorkshire Wolds via the tiny hilltop church at Burythorpe and quiet estate village of Birdsall. From the top of the Wolds escarpment - the brow - there are extensive views across Ryedale towards Castle Howard and Sutton Bank
www.dalestrails.freeserve.co.uk/Leavening.htm
Wolds Way
A curving route around and across the Yorkshire Wolds via Market Weighton, linking the North Sea to the Humber. The route was originally established in 1982 as the Wolds Way, and changed its name to the Yorkshire Wolds Way in 2003. A recent alteration visits the fascinating ruins of Wharram Percy.
http://www.ramblers.org.uk/info/paths/yorkshirewolds.html
York – Walking Tour
When visiting York it’s easy to walk and drift around without really appreciating everything before you but more importantly what’s hiding behind that building or up that ginnal, a Yorkshire word for alley! Charlotte O’Gram is a good friend of ours and has lived in Yorkshire for all her life and over dinner one evening we were talking about York and then realised that we just didn’t know the city! What an admission to make after living at Low Penhowe for over 21 years and within 25 minutes of York! The following week Charlotte gave us a conducted walking tour around York. What we liked about our walking tour was the informal nature of the tour rather than the stereotyped typical tour whereby the guide goes through the same old spiel!
http://www.bedandbreakfastyorkshire.co.uk/walktour.html
The Ramblers Association
Let us take the strain out of arranging a day out walking. Choose from our thousands of led walks taking place around the country every week.
www.ramblers.org.uk
Minster Way
The joining together of the minsters at Beverley and York crosses the chalk hills of the Yorkshire Wolds before descending on to the flat land of the Vale of York.
www.walkingontheweb.co.uk/Defined%20Routes/Minster_Way.htm
Walking in North Yorkshire
part of the Walking on the Web guide to walking in England www.walkingontheweb.co.uk/English%20Regions/Walking_North_Yorkshire_England.htm
Ghost Walks
The Ghost Hunt, York
The Ghost Hunt of York offers an evening walking tour of York`s haunted locations, it lasts approximately an hour and a quarter.
www.ghosthunt.co.uk
The Ghost Trail, York
Dare you travel back in time; cross the centuries and experience the stories that make up the hidden and blood chilling history of York's ghostly tradition?
www.ghosttrail.co.uk
Cycling
The National Cycle By-ways
This great region, brought together as one for the purposes of The National Byway route, is a state of mind rather than a place. It represents a set of particular values, and over the centuries these have helped to shape the place that it is today. As has its history: Roman and Viking civilizations flourished here, medieval barons fought for what they believed in - or coveted. In Victorian times Yorkshire was a powerhouse of the industrial revolution. It still makes its presence felt in modern times and it passes at the bottom of our lane.
http://www.thenationalbyway.org/yorkshire.asp
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