Yorkshire Moors National Park

The Yorkshire Moors may not be one of the best known national parks, but the area includes some breathtakingly beautiful scenery, including vast expanses of open moorland, dramatic sea cliffs, sudden escarpments and hidden valleys.

This site is going to be my personal guide to the Moors, based on seventeen years of walking in the national park. We will be building up a collection of suggested walks (thirty seven at the moment), complete with maps and easy to follow instructions, each based on my own walks over the last few years, and illustrated by some of the thousands of photos I've taken on the moors.

The heart of the site is going to be the gazetteer, which we hope to develop into a complete guide to the Moors, supported by a series of maps created for this site. Gazatteer entries will be created as I visit the Moors, and expanded as more infomation is found, so keep coming back. We also hope to create a series of articles about the wildlife and history of the moors.

If you have any questions, then get in touch using our contact form and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.

Most recent addition: 3 May 2008: Today we add picture galleries for Osmotherley and Baydale

At the end of July 2006 I walked Hadrian's Wall for the Perthes Disease Association.

Click on the map below to go to more detailed maps of the Moors, linked to our gazatteer.

Earlier updates

26 April 2008: Printable versions of our walks Osmotherley and Thimbleby Bank, Osmotherley to Oak Dale, Osmotherley to High Lane, Cow Ridge and Arngill Valley and Around Codbeck Reservoir. We also add a map index to our picture galleries, and a gallery of pictures of Rosedale
20 April: Printable versions of walks Jugger Howe and Harwood Dale, south from Robin Hood's Bay, Coastal views from Ravenscar, South from Ravenscar and Osmotherley to Beacon Hill
12 April 2008: We add an article on Helmsley Castle and a map showing the location of the castles of the moors.
5 April: A walk on Rudland Rigg from Low Mill and a gazetteer entry on Rosedale Abbey
8 March: More printable versions of our walks: Roseberry Topping and the Captain Cook Memorial, Roseberry Topping from the West, Little and Great Fryup Dales, The Glaisdale Round, Goathland, Mallyan Spout and Beck Hole,
1 March: We start to add printable versions of our walks, beginning with Thorodale, The White Horse and Gormire, Sneaton High Moor and Whinstones Ridge, Clay Bank to Cringle Moor and Clay Bank to Round Hill
23 February: We catch up with our backlog of walks, adding an ascent of Easterside Hill from Hawnby
16 February: A walk south from Robin Hood's Bay and a walk to the top of Sneaton High Moor
10 February 2008: We add a walk around Bransdale and an ascent of Roseberry Topping from the west
2 February 2008: A short walk around Cod Beck Reservoir and a walk from Clay Bank to Round Hill and a gazetteer entry on Robin Hood's Bay
26 January: A walk west from Hawnby to Thorodale and a walk around Rosedale on the old railway
19 January: We add a walk east from Chop Gate to Nab End Moor and Round Hill and a walk from Clay Bank to Cringle Moor
13 January 2008: A walk along the Farndale Railway and a walk south from Ravenscar on the railway and back along the Cleveland Way
9 December: A walk through Langdale Forest to Lilla Cross
8 December: Gazatteer entries on Lockton and Levisham
12 November 2007: A walk around Jugger Howe and Harwood Dale
27 October 2007: A walk on Langdale Rigg
24 September: A walk that visits the White Horse of Kilburn, Gormire Lake and the famous viewpoint of Sutton Bank
22 August: A walk from Chop Gate to Osmotherley across the Moors between Bilsdale and Ryedale and then along the foot of Black Hambleton 14 June: Gazetteer entry on Helmsley
16 May: Walk Eighteen, through Thimbleby Woods from Osmotherley.

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