Walk · East Riding of Yorkshire

Aldbrough Beach north to Great Cowden

Aldbrough · HU11 4RQ
N 880 YD
3.2MILES
1h 35mON FOOT
12mCLIMB
Out & backSHAPE
Off-road 95% 5% shares tarmac with cars
Field & moor path 92%Lane & track 3%Road with traffic 5%

Our drawing of the route — the shape of the walk, not a navigation aid. Carry OS Explorer on the hill.

Starts at
Beach ramp at the seaward end of Seaside Road, Aldbrough HU11 4RQ
Parking
Roadside at the end of Seaside Road above the ramp; there is no formal car park and space is tight in summer
Directions to the start →

An out-and-back on open sand with no dog order of any kind over it, because the council Public Spaces Protection Order covers four named beaches in the county and Aldbrough is not one of them. Drop down the ramp at the seaward end of Seaside Road, past the caravan parks, and turn north with the clay cliff on your left. This is the sharp end of Europe’s fastest-eroding coastline: Aldbrough has lost its cliff road repeatedly, bungalows have gone over the edge within living memory, and at Great Cowden a mile and a half on you pass the remains of the old Rolston army range where concrete blocks and pillboxes lie on the beach where they fell. Turn round there. Go on a falling tide, because at high water the sea reaches the clay in several places and there is no way up; keep well out from the cliff foot throughout.

House rules, decoded

Off-lead OK
REGION · EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE
GRID · 53.8368, -0.0889
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Beach DOGS WELCOME

Aldbrough Beach

HU11 4RQ
Dogs allowed all year

Aldbrough sits on the fastest-eroding coastline in Europe and the beach below it carries no dog restriction of any kind. The East Riding of Yorkshire Council dog Public Spaces Protection Order names only four beaches in the whole county, Bridlington North, Bridlington South, Hornsea and Withernsea, so Aldbrough is outside the order entirely and dogs may run here off lead all year round. Access is down the ramp at the seaward end of Seaside Road, past the caravan parks, and the cliff top itself is genuinely dangerous: the road has been shortened repeatedly, houses have gone over the edge, and the boulder clay slumps without warning after rain. Walk on the sand rather than at the foot of the cliff, check the tide because the beach narrows against the clay at high water, and treat any fenced or taped section as closed.

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Elm Tree

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Royal Hotel

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