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Dog-friendly walks in Rosedale Abbey

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Hamer House and Cropton Forest from Rosedale Abbey

Rosedale Abbey · YO18 8RA
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12.3MILES
5:43TIME
490mCLIMB
90%OFF-ROAD
Off-lead allowed Livestock — leads on

A big 12.3-mile day with 490 metres of ascent and close to six hours, climbing out of the dale to the lonely moor road at Hamer before dropping into the forest tracks of Cropton and working back along the dale bottom; the moor crossing is genuinely boggy and there is no shelter of any kind on the tops. It starts at the National Park car park in Rosedale Abbey, and it is worth knowing there is no shop or refill point between the village and the return, so carry everything for both of you. The forest tracks are ideal for a dog to run and the River Seven gives a swim at the end, but the moor is grouse ground with ground-nesting birds and free-ranging sheep, so leads go on for the open sections from 1 March to 31 July.

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Rosedale East Kilns and Bank Top

Rosedale Abbey · YO18 8RA
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4.3MILES
2:07TIME
200mCLIMB
90%OFF-ROAD
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A short, steep 4.3-mile round with 200 metres of ascent packed into the first half, roughly two hours, climbing the dale side to the calcining kilns of the East Mines and returning on the old railway formation; the pull out of the village is unrelenting and the kiln area is loose shale underfoot. It starts in Rosedale Abbey village centre by the Milburn Arms, where the National Park car park behind the green is the only sensible parking and fills fast in daffodil season and in August. The becks crossed on the way up give a drink, the railway formation is broad, firm and easy for a dog to trot along, but the kiln ruins have unfenced drops and open shafts, and sheep graze the intake fields all the way up.

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Rosedale Ironstone Railway

Rosedale Abbey
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4MILES
2:00TIME
40mCLIMB
98%OFF-ROAD
Livestock — leads on

A level four-mile out-and-back from Bank Top car park at the head of Rosedale Chimney Bank, following the trackbed of the Victorian ironstone railway past the monumental ruined calcining kilns, with uninterrupted views down the dale for the entire length. The compacted stone path has no significant gradients, but this is a permissive route across grouse moor: dogs on leads at all times for the sheep and ground-nesting birds. Bleakly beautiful industrial archaeology at its best.

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Sheriff's Pit and Ana Cross

Rosedale Abbey
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6.7MILES
3:03TIME
210mCLIMB
85%OFF-ROAD
Off-lead allowed Livestock — leads on

Six and three quarter miles with 210 metres of climbing, about three hours, taking the ironstone workings on the west side of Rosedale and then striking south over Spaunton Moor to the stone shaft of Ana Cross. The start is the village car park at Rosedale Abbey; note that the ascent of Chimney Bank out of the village is one in three, so walkers with dogs in the car should approach from Hutton-le-Hole in winter. The old mine tracks give a long safe off-lead stretch, but Sheriff's Pit is an open shaft that is fenced only loosely, sheep range the whole moor, and leads are required on the open moor from 1 March to 31 July.

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