Our drawing of the route, over road and path data from OpenStreetMap. It shows where the walk goes and what it goes through. It is not a survey and not a navigation aid — carry OS Explorer on the hill.
A short 3.1-mile round with a stiff 190 metres of ascent and about an hour and a half, climbing out of Scugdale to the little sandstone outcrops of Barker's Crags and returning by the bracken slope of Stoney Wicks; short but sharp, and the bracken path is narrow and overgrown by August. It starts at Scugdale Hall at the head of the dead-end lane out of Swainby, where there is very limited verge parking, so if it is full drop back to Huthwaite Green a mile down the valley. Scugdale Beck gives clean water at the bottom, the upper slopes are open moor for a dog to range, but the crags are popular with climbers and have unprotected drops, sheep graze the whole valley and the moor edge, and leads are needed on the moor from 1 March to 31 July.
A varied 7.1-mile circuit with 239 metres of ascent, a little over three hours, taking country lanes and bluebell woods on to the heather of Scarth Wood Moor and back down through Clain Wood; boggy where the moor path drops off the edge. Start in Swainby, parking along the beckside street where the road runs either side of Scugdale Beck, and there is a bus from Northallerton and Stokesley. The beck through the village is a fine paddling spot at the finish, the woods take a dog off the lead well, but the moorland section is open access where leads are required from 1 March to 31 July, and there are sheep on Scarth Nick.
A beck-side village pub under the Cleveland escarpment, a short climb from Scugdale and the Lyke Wake route. The pub puts a dog friendly welcome alongside its food and beer, which makes it a natural finish to a day on the Wainstones.
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