Market Weighton · 2 checked
Boots on. These are the Market Weighton walks worth the drive, with lead rules and livestock warnings marked.
The best three miles of the old Beverley to Market Weighton line, running west from the surviving platform and station house at Kiplingcotes through a deep chalk cutting and out onto an embankment above Goodmanham. This is the stretch managed as a linear nature reserve, thick with cowslips and marjoram on the cutting sides in summer and completely traffic-free, ending at the old Market Weighton station site a few minutes from the Market Place. It is a grass and cinder surface for most of the way with a made stone path for the last kilometre into town, and it can be genuinely claggy from November to March. Kiplingcotes Chalk Pit sits three hundred metres from the car park and is a Yorkshire Wildlife Trust reserve that bans dogs outright, so keep to the trail itself.
The Yorkshire Wolds Way leaves Market Weighton beside the old station and climbs gently north-east to Goodmanham, the village where Coifi the pagan priest is said to have thrown his spear into his own temple in 627. The route passes All Hallows church and the Goodmanham Arms, then swings up into Goodmanham Dale, a proper chalk valley with the trail running along the floor of it, before turning back over the wold and dropping down field edges to the town. It is arable country, so the paths are cross-field and headland tracks that get heavy after ploughing, and there is stock in some of the dale pastures. Rifle Butts Quarry, the little Yorkshire Wildlife Trust reserve above Goodmanham, does not allow dogs at all, so keep to the waymarked trail.
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