Hutton le Hole · 3 checked
Boots on. These are the Hutton le Hole walks worth the drive, with lead rules and livestock warnings marked.
A gentle 3.1-mile stroll with only 110 metres of climbing, an hour and a half at an easy pace, following Hutton Beck out of the village on to the fringe of the moor and back over pasture; a handful of stiles and one boggy corner after rain. Start on the famous sheep-cropped green in the middle of the village, where the pay-and-display car park on Moor Lane is the sensible option at approximately YO62 6UA. The beck runs shallow and clean the whole way for drinking and paddling, but the village greens and the surrounding fields are all grazed by loose sheep, so this is a lead walk with only short off-lead moments on the moor edge.
Eight and a half miles with 280 metres of ascent and about four hours, rising steadily out of the village onto Spaunton Moor to the stone cross at Ana Cross before swinging east and dropping back through Lastingham; the moor tracks are firm but the descent to Lastingham is stepped and awkward in places. Start on the green at Hutton-le-Hole, where the National Park pay-and-display beside the Ryedale Folk Museum is the only formal parking and the village lanes are heavily restricted. Hutton Beck at the start and the springs at Lastingham give water, and the broad moor bridleways suit a dog that ranges, but blackface sheep graze the green and the whole moor, and ground-nesting birds mean leads on the open moor from 1 March to 31 July.
A 6.6-mile half day with 210 metres of ascent and about three hours, running south down Hutton Beck into Douthwaite Dale before picking up the Tabular Hills Walk on the limestone shelf and looping back; it is field path and green lane rather than moor, with a handful of stiles and one steep bank out of the dale. It starts from the National Park car park at Hutton-le-Hole by the Ryedale Folk Museum; the Moorsbus serves the village in summer and there is a tea room and a pub at the start and finish. Hutton Beck runs beside the path for the first mile with easy access for a drink, but the Tabular Hills section crosses arable and grazing land with sheep and cattle, and several stiles are the narrow squeeze type that a large dog will need lifting over.
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