Hunmanby · 3 checked
Boots on. These are the Hunmanby walks worth the drive, with lead rules and livestock warnings marked.
A short 3.1-mile circular of about an hour and twenty minutes, down the gap onto Hunmanby Sands, north along the beach towards Filey and back up onto the clifftop path, with the 70 metres of climbing all in one pull. Park at Hunmanby Gap at the end of Sands Lane, where there is a small pay-and-display and a beach cafe; it is two miles down from Hunmanby village, which has the nearest station. This end of Filey Bay carries no seasonal dog ban at all, so it is the reliable summer choice on this coast, with miles of firm sand to run on, but check the tide because the beach narrows towards Reighton and the clifftop path runs close to a soft, slumping edge.
Four and a bit linear miles of about two hours north-east across gently rising farmland into Filey, with only 70 metres of climbing, field-edge paths and green lanes, and one long claggy section after rain near Muston Grange. Start at the Market Place in Hunmanby, where parking is free, and take the train back from Filey to Hunmanby, a five-minute hop on the Scarborough line. The green lanes are quiet and wide enough for a dog to work ahead, but the route crosses grazed fields with kissing gates and stiles, passes close to Filey Dams nature reserve where dogs are not allowed at all, and finishes on town pavement.
A full ten-mile day of around five hours linking the Centenary Way out to Filey, the coast at Filey Bay and the Yorkshire Wolds Way back over Folkton Wold and down Stocking Dale, with 230 metres of climbing on chalk and clay that turns slick in the wet. Start at Hunmanby railway station, which is on the Scarborough to Hull line and makes the whole thing car free. The dale bottoms and the chalk tracks are good long off-lead miles, but sheep are on the wold and there is arable headland walking where a dog must stay on the path, the Muston crossing uses a stretch of the A1039, and the Filey beach section carries a summer dog ban.
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