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 - Fri 26th Feb ****
Old Schoolhouse Restaurant, Leven
Click on this link for details: Annual Dinner Menu and return your choices asap ********************
*** Details of the Leven Walking Club and Hornsea District Walking Club 2010 Programmes are on the Calendar page ***
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To see all my walks photos and more
click on
'Dales Trails Picasa Photo Albums'
STOP PRESS - 7th Feb 2010
7 for 7.30pm
Contact Dave Fox (01964 542564)
to me by email (arnold.underwood@dalestrails.freeserve.co.uk) or by phone to Dave Fox
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
HORNSEA DISTRICT WALKING CLUB
**** WEEKEND AWAY - MARCH 26th to 28th 2010 ****
Upper Swaledale
Advanced Notice
**** WEEKEND AWAY - APRIL 30th to MAY 3rd 2010 ****
Lake District
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**** LONG WEEKEND IN NORTHERN IRELAND - OCTOBER 15th - 18th 2010 ****
Walking in the Mountains of Mourne
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LEVEN WALKING CLUB
Advanced Notice
**** WEEKEND AWAY - MAY 15th & 16th 2010 ****
Derbyshire White Peak
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DALES TRAILS - WALKS REPORTS
Based at the Kearton Country Hotel in Thwaite
Contact Joyce Davidson
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Based at YHA Coniston
Contact Joyce Davidson
Based in the coastal resort of Newcastle (NI)
For more details contact Chris Smith
Click on this link for details: Mountains of Mourne
Based at YHA Alstonefield
Contact Bob Cutts
PEAK DISTRICT WEEKEND : 30th Oct - 1st Nov 2009
Sixteen or so of us met up at Hathersage on Fri Oct 30th for a walk that would take us up onto Stanage Edge. The weather was dry, albeit overcast. Although only just over 8miles it was quite a strenuous walk, made a little more so by a small error in map-reading! This resulted in us losing height then having to regain it all by heading up Bamford Clough, of wich the less said the better! After a pleasant stroll along the edge it was all downhill back into Hathersage for a cup of tea before heading on to Castleton Youth Hostel
On Saturday morning, with gathered outside the Hostel and headed off up Cave Dale - quite tricky with the limestone being wet. After crossing high pastures we dropped down the wooded Oxlow Rake, looking glorious with autumn colours. Lunch was taken at the well-named Windy Knoll after which it was up Mam Tor and along the ridge towards Lose Hill and then back down to Castleton - a total distance of about 10½miles.
We took our evening meal in the Cheshire Cheese in Castleton. It was Halloween and there were various strange goings on going on - which had a strange effect on some of our 'girls'- Again, the less said about this the better - just look at my Picasa Photo Album!
Alas, by Sunday the rain that had been forecast arrived in earnest. So after a good breakfast at the Youth Hostel we decided to abandon any plans for a walk. Instead, most of us visited the nearby Peak Cavern for a very entertaining and informative guided tour. A great weekend ended with a look round the the Farmers' Market or the National Park Visitor Centre followed by coffee in Rose Cottage Tea Room
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Specially Selected Photos
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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. East Yorkshire - South Cave and Brantingham
A walk of two halves – first across flat farmland by way of the pretty village of Ellerker, then after passing through Brantingham you reach the southern edge of the Yorkshire Wolds. Here the route becomes quite undulating with some steep, albeit short, ups and downs before levelling out again near South Cave.
WALK OF THE MONTH INCLUDES ROUTE MAP
Dales Trails Photo Galleries
Dales Trails Photo Gallery
Dales Trails 'Picasa' Photo Albums include Walks of the Month and the Weekend in the Peak District
For these Themed Photo Albums and all the photos from this months's walks
click on
'Dales Trails Picasa Photo Albums'
Dales Trails Featured Walk
See Walking with Underwood.
FEATURE WALK for Winter
Click on this link for details: South Cave and Brantingham.
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 more information contact Stuart Kemp on 07816 476143 Hornsea District Walking Club is affiliated to the Ramblers Association.
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