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
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'Dales Trails Picasa Photo Albums'
STOP PRESS - 5th Feb 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
JANUARY 2012
Jan 8th - Setting off from Beverley Saturday Market we headed south across Beverley Parks for an early coffee stop at the Millennium Orchard. Then past Model Farm and across the A164 through Bentley to Risby Park for another coffee stop. From Risby we headed towards Walkington passing the playing fields and along the road to Bentley Park and a lunch stop in the woods near there. Finally we followed a very sticky field-side to Broadgate Farm and across the Westwood to Black Mill and back into town – a distance of about 10¾miles.
Jan 15th – Still fairly close to home at this time of year, the first LWC walk started from North Cave. We headed across fields to Everthorpe but there we turned along the wrong path which took us into South Cave West End. So we had to loop back across the golf course to the cemetery and up the track to the quarry at Swinescalf. At the top we joined the Wolds Way and headed down to Weedley Springs and into the wooded Hunsley Dale for lunch. We turned off the Wolds Way at the road and walked along the verge to pick up the path down into Drewton Dale. At the end of the lane we crossed the main road to walk past Drewton Farm back to North Cave – 10miles. Afterwards most of us adjourned to Drewtons Tearoom for tea & cakes.
Jan 22nd – This walk explored somewhere different for some of us. Setting off from Welton we headed for Brough which meant crossing the main A63 road by footbridge, then the main railway line at a level crossing. Skirting the edge of Brough we turned right then left to cross the airfield at BAe to reach the bank of the River Humber. Here we turned east towards the Humber Bridge, helped by a very strong westerly wind. Past Welton Water our progress was slowed because the river bank had been washed away and we had to pick our way through the Humber mud. Safely on firm ground again we joined the Wolds Way and followed this through Long Plantation near North Ferriby. Crossing the A63 at the new Melton junction we headed up onto Melton Hill for a lunch stop in the woods. Continuing past Melton Quarry we turned to complete a loop round Welton Wold and back down the picturesque Welton Dale. 9¾miles
Jan 29th – Due to strains, pains, and other commitments only four of us set off from Fridaythorpe to head along the Wolds Way into Thixen Dale with its new ‘Time & Flow’ art/earthwork. After studying the sculpture we headed down the dale into Thixendale village to take an early lunch in the village hall – the homemade chocolate cake and the cherry pie were very good indeed. Leaving the village across the cricket field we climbed out of the dale to Paradise Cottages, then down the road to Brubber Dale. After walking through this dale and the adjoining West Dale we emerged near the main road but avoided it by looping back round into Fridaythorpe via the ABN access road. 8½miles
To view Photo records of all the above, and the 2011 Walking Year albums
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'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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