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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HORNSEA DISTRICT WALKING CLUB
Incorporating
LEVEN WALKING CLUB
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HDWC - 25YEARS
Follow this link to browse at your leisure my 'Slide Show'depicting the adventures of members of Hornsea District Walking Club
'Google photos - HDWC 25 YEARS'
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UPDATED - 30th Sept 2024, 3.00pm
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*** WALKS & EVENTS COMING UP ***
CLUB SUNDAY WALKS ARE CATEGORISED : SHORT (6-8miles), MEDIUM (8-10miles), and LONG (more than 10miles)
EVENING WALKS : 4-5 miles
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Friday, 4th Oct. LEVEN (New Inn) 10.00am
LEVEN WALKING FOR HEALTH Longer walk 4.5 miles via High Stile, Northfield & Heigholme (1hr 30mins).
Parking/Start: New Inn
Map: Explorer 295; Grid Ref: TA 107 449
Postcode: HU17 5NZ;
Leader: Leven Walking for Health team
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Sunday, 6th Oct. CASTLE HOWARD
HDWC SHORT WALK (7.5 miles)
Howardian Hills via Welburn & Bulmer
Parking: Castle Howard Main Car Park (free)
Map: Explorer 300; Grid Ref:SE 712 698
Postcode: YO60 7DA ; What3words (etchings.clerk.agency)
Leader: Arnold Underwood
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Friday, 11th Oct. LEVEN (New Inn) 10.00am
LEVEN WALKING FOR HEALTH 2.5 miles (1hr).
Parking/Start: New Inn
Map: Explorer 295; Grid Ref: TA 107 449
Postcode: HU17 5NZ;
Leader: Leven Walking for Health team
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Sunday, 13th Oct. HUNMANBY
HDWC MEDIUM WALK (9 miles)
via
Parking: Hackness Village Hall
Map: Explorer OL27; Grid Ref:SE 967 899
Postcode: ; What3words
Leader: Sue Copeland
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Details of forthcoming walks can be found on this website's Calendar. Click here: Calendar
** If you intend joining any Club walk please contact (phone/text/email) the Walk Leader in advance (Contact details are on the Calendar) or via the HDWC WhatsApp Group **
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EXPLORING BY BUS
EAST YORKSHIRE BUSES have introduced several bus services for Summer 2024 Saturdays and/or Sundays, useful to walkers:
Service 71 SPURN EXPLORER
from Withernsea to Spurn YWT Visitor Centre (connects at Withernsea with buses from Hull)
Service 200 WOLDS EXPLORER
(Saturdays, Sundays, & Bank Holidays until 29th Sept 2024)
from Pocklington via Millington to Huggate, Fridaythorpe and Thixenndale (connects at Pocklington with X46/X47 buses from Hull, Beverley & York)
Service 822 DALESBUS
from Pocklington, via York to Ripon, Fountains Abbey, Pateley Bridge & Grassington (connects with other Dalesbus servives at Grassington)
Full details onn East Yorkshire Buses website or App
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Walks Photo-Blogs
Links to my walks photos are being compiled in the 'Photo Albums'page on this website
Click this Photo Albums link Photo Albums
There will still be the photo album link via Facebook after each walk.
However if you are not signed up to Facebook you can still see the albums of my most recent walks by following these links:
For earlier walks, click this Photo Albums link Photo Albums
MAY 2024
'Google photos - 5th May 2024 Beadlam to Riccal Dale'
'Google photos - May 2024 Leven Walking for Health'
JUNE 2024
'Google photos - 2nd June 2024 HDWC West Ayton & Wykeham'
'Google photos - 9th June 2024 Hutton-le-Hole'
'Google photos - 16th June 2024 Pickering to Farwath and back'
'Google photos - 19th June 2024 HDWC Evening Walk Hotham'
'Google photos - 23rd June 2024 A Short Walk from Field House Farm'
JULY 2024
'Google photos - 6th July 2024 Wolds Explorer Walk Huggate - Pocklington'
'Google photos - 21st July 2024 Wolds Explorer Walk Thixendale to Huggate'
'Google photos - 28th July 2024 Moor Adventures - Goathland to Grosmont'
AUGUST 2024
'Google photos - 4th August 2024 HDWC Hutton-le-Hole'
'Google photos - 11th August2024 Wolds Explorer Walk Millington (The Balk) to Pocklington'
'Google photos - 25th August 2024 Wharram-le-Street'
SEPTEMBER 2024
'Google photos - 1st Sept 2024 HDWC Goathland'
'Google photos - 22nd Sept 2024 HDWC West Lutton'
'Google photos - 29th Sept 2024 Pickering NYMR Steam Gala'
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HORNSEA COMMUNITY NEWS & LEVEN LIFE WALKS REPORTS
The activities of Hornsea and Leven Walking Clubs are reported on regularly in the monthly Hornsea Community News and the quarterly 'Leven Life'.
To download a Leven Life Walks Report click on the relevent link:
Full Colour LEVEN LIFE Walks Report - March 2023
JUNE 2023 LEVEN LIFE - Walks Report
SEPT 2023 LEVEN LIFE - Walks Report
DEC 2023 LEVEN LIFE - Walks Report
JAN 2024 Hornsea Community News - Walks Report
MARCH 2024 LEVEN LIFE - Walks Report
JUNE 2024 LEVEN LIFE - Walks Report
**NEW**SEPT 2024 LEVEN LIFE - Walks Report
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FLASHBACK TEN YEARS AGO
On 18th July 2014 I joined Suzie Watson and her fellow walkers for the last leg (Falling Foss to Robin Hoods Bay) of their Coast to Coast Walk.
Here's the gang after dipping their toes in the North Sea
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For a selection of walks to experience England's Landscape at its finest.
See Walking with Underwood.
Yorkshire Wolds
Parking at the Robert Fuller Gallery at Fotherdale Farm, Thixendale (please ask for permission first and visit the Gallery afterwards)
Fotherdale Farm is the home of Wildlife Artist, Photographer and Film maker, Robert E Fuller.
This link below opens my photo album for this walk and provides a pictorial guide of the route:
'Google photos - 12th Dec 2021 Fotherdale & Paradise'
THE WALK GUIDE/ALBUM INCLUDES A ROUTE MAP
REPRODUCED WITH PERMISSION OF ORDNANCE SURVEY
Please do not print the route maps - purchase the relevant OS Map (Explorer 300) or subscribe to the OS Maps website 'OS Maps Online'
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If you enjoy shorter, dog-friendly walks then take a look at 'Walking the Wolds with Bill & Mrs M.'
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PENNINE WAY CONQUERED (PART 1)
30 years ago myself and three friends completed the Pennine Way from Edale in Derbyshire to Kirk Yetholm in the Scottish Borders.
The document telling the story of that epic adventure has just come to light after being thought lost.
Written back in 1990 using a Commodore 64 computer and saved to a long-lost 5½" floppy disk, this printed draft was the only copy of our story.
As I laboriously re-type the document, I will 'serialise' it on this website in 15 chapters, one for each day of or walk.
So if you are interested (Days 1 - 8, Edale to Baldersdale), follow this link Pennine Way Conquered Part 1.
PENNINE WAY CONQUERED (PART 2)
Enforced 'social distancing' due to the Coronavrus Pandemic gave me the opportunity to complete the upload of the remaining chapters of my Pennine Way adventure, completed 30 years ago in May/June 1990.
The second half of Pennine Way Conquered (Days 9 - 15, Baldersdale to Kirk Yetholme), can be viewed by following this link Pennine Way Conquered Part 2.
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Booklets for my three Trans-Dales Trails are now out of print, but all three routes are now available as free PDF file downloads.
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.
For further information contact Arnold Underwood on 07989 292522.
Read Bogtrotter's report in each issue of Leven Life.
The Walks Programme for Leven Walking Club is now incorporated into that of the Hornsea District Walking Club
For further information contact Club Chairperson Joyce Davidson or Walks Secretary Arnold Underwood (07989 292522)
See the monthly Walks Report in each issue of the Hornsea Community News.
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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.
The routes establish links across the Yorkshire Dales using some of the public rights of way that are less frequently walked.
There are three booklets in the Trans-Dale Trail series, each giving a detailed description of the route.
Go to Trans-Dales Trail 1 , Trans-Dales Trail 2 or Trans-Dales Trail 3 and follow the links.
Arnold Underwood (Dales Trails)
41 The Orchard
Leven
East Yorkshire
HU17 5QA
e-mail: arnold.dalestrails@gmail.com
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.
Peter Tomkinson 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
Leven Walking Club is a long-established club, now merged with the Hornsea District Walking Club
Go to Calendar for walking programme.
Hornsea District Walking Club
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.
Visitors to Dales Trails since August 1st 2007
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Arnold Underwood