Dales Trails - Walking in Northern England
From East Yorkshire's Wolds and Derbyshire's Peak District to the North Yorkshire Moors and Pennines, you will find the valleys among the rolling hills, the limestone scars, the gritstone ridges universally known as 'Dales'. This vast area provides some of the best & most varied walking opportunities in the country.
Dales Trails gives you some ideas how to explore Yorkshire and other parts of Northern England on foot, and find hidden delights off the beaten track. You can follow one of my medium distance Trans-Dales Trails, try one of my day walks as featured in 'Walking with Underwood' , or join one of the two Walking Clubs featured below.
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LEVEN WALKING CLUB - ANNUAL DINNER
WEEKENDS AWAY 2012
HORNSEA DISTRICT WALKING CLUB
Fri March 30th - Sunday April 1st 2012
See Weardale Weekend
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Fri 12th Oct - Wednesday 17th Oct 2012
To see all my walks photos and more
click on
'Dales Trails Picasa Photo Albums'
STOP PRESS - 21st Jan 2012
Old Schoolhouse Restaurant, High Stile, Leven
Friday 2nd March 2012, 7.00 for 7.30pm
More details from Dave Fox
WEARDALE
Based in Stanhope, County Durham - 2 nights B& B Accommodation
£30 per person per night
Three walks in Weardale (details ammended 11th Jan 2012)
Fri - Wolsingham (7miles);Sat - Rookhope & Stanhope Common (12miles): Sun - Stanhope Edges (6½miles)
Full details from Chris Smith (01964 536094)
SOUTH-WEST IRELAND - DINGLE PENINSULAR
Based in Dingle Town - 5 nights B& B Accommodation
35 euros per person per night
Full details from Chris Smith (01964 536094)
Julie Blackwell, Store Manager, invites members of Leven and Hornsea Walking Clubs to the recently opened Craghoppers outlet at Hornsea Freeport to see the new Autumn /Winter range of outdoor clothing.
Club members can receive 10% discount of their purchases upon production of their walking club membership card
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Wainwright Society Calendar 2012
The 2012 Wainwright Society Calendar has now sold out completely. Many thanks to all of those who have purchased one.
The profit generated for Calvert Trust, Lake District will be in excess of £9,000.
The Society once again utilised the photographic skills of some of its members, all of whom provided their work free of charge.
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DALES TRAILS - WALKS REPORTS
DECEMBER 2011
Dec 11th was the day for the HDWC Christmas Dinner and walk. With the Christmas Dinner booked at Hornsea Golf Club for 2pm, a good crowd of walkers met there at 10.30am to work up an appetite with a 6 mile walk. On a damp morning the walkers headed off through Rolston and along the green lane past the back of the golf course towards Goxhill. After the mandatory coffee stop by Goxhill church, the return was back past the Mere and through Hornsea Freeport to the Golf Club. There, the walkers were joined by friends & family to sit down to an enjoyable Christmas Dinner. The afternoon concluded with a raffle, the proceeds of which were for the Edale Mountain Rescue Team, and, back by popular request, there was amusing entertainment from Barry
Dec 18th – A glorious sunny, albeit breezy day for the final LWC walk of 2011. Setting off from the pretty village of Lund the walkers headed across fields towards Kilnwick, pausing for a coffee stop just past the woods and lake at Cawkeld. Then along the lane to Watton and across a field to Mill Cottage. After walking by the beck a sheltered spot was found for a lunch stop, augmented with Christmas treats and mulled wine. After visiting Kilnwick church, it was on along the road to Lockington and then back across fields to Lund to complete a 9½ mile walk. Afternoon tea was taken at the Wellington Inn
Dec 26th – Boxing Day and another glorious sunny day, not to be wasted sitting indoors watching TV. So me and daughter Hannah did a brisk 7½ miles from Hornsea via Wassand, Seaton, and Goxhill (again)
To view Photo records of all the above, and the 2011 Walking Year albums
click on
'Dales Trails Picasa Photo Albums'
Dales Trails Photo Galleries
See Dales Trails 'Picasa' Photo Albums for a photo record of all walks by Hornsea and Leven Walking Clubs and more
click on 'Dales Trails Picasa Photo Albums'
For specially Selected Photos, visit
Dales Trails Photo Gallery
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New walks will be added regularly to give a selection of walks for you to experience England's Landscape at its finest. North Lincolnshire - Alkborough & The Humber - An 'amazing' walk
A fairly flat walk of about 9½ miles from the picturesque village of Alkborough, famous for Julian's Bower - an ancient Turf Maze.
WALK OF THE MONTH INCLUDES ROUTE MAP
Dales Trails Featured Walk
See Walking with Underwood.
FEATURE WALK
The route crosses arable land to Winteringham and returns along the Humber flood bank
Click on this link for details: Alkborough & The Humber.
REPRODUCED WITH PERMISSION OF ORDNANCE SURVEY
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These Trails, Trans-Dales Trail 1, Trans-Dales Trail 2 and Trans-Dales Trail 3, are each about sixty miles in length and can be comfortably completed by anyone that is reasonably fit in five days, with four nights Bed & Breakfast accommodation.
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Arnold Underwood (Dales Trails) 41 The Orchard Leven East Yorkshire HU17 5QA e-mail: arnold.underwood@dalestrails.freeserve.co.uk
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The Author
Arnold Underwood is an experienced walker and a leader of his local walking club. He lives near Beverley and is the East Yorkshire correspondent for Country Walking magazine. He has walked the Ridgeway (1983), the Pennine Way (1990), the Dales Way (1993), and A Bowland - Dales Traverse (1994), the latter two with Peter Tomkinson. He has walked much in the Yorkshire Dales, Moors, and Wolds, including completing the Three Peaks, Lyke Wake, and Saltergate challenge walks - the last two again with PeterTomkinson.
Arnold devised the three Trails with the help of Peter Tomkinson, and together they walked each of the routes - Trail 1 in 1995, Trail 2 in 1996, and Trail 3 in 1997.
Peter Tomkison is a former Scout Leader, and as such has done much walking in all terrains and in all conditions. In addition to those walks mentioned above he has also completed the Cleveland Way, Minster Way and the Ebor Way.
Leven Walking Club
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Leven Walking Club is a long-established club. Members suggestions result in a varied programme of walks on the Yorkshire Wolds, North York Moors and elsewhere.
Go to Calendar for walking programme.
For further information contact Arnold Underwood on 01964 543883 or 07989 292522, Read Nomad's report in each issue of Leven Life. Find out more about 'Leven Village'. |
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Hornsea District Walking Club
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Hornsea District Walking Club is an independent club relying on its members for suggesting and leading the variety of walks. Go to Calendar for walking programme.
For further information contact Club Chairman Graham Hadfield or Walks Secretary Arnold Underwood (07989 292522) Hornsea District Walking Club is affiliated to the Ramblers Association.
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