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The Blacksmiths Arms

Swainby · DL6 3EW
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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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REGION · NORTH YORKSHIRE
GRID · 54.4138, -1.2680
SOURCE · HTTP://WWW.BLACKSMITHSARMS.COM/
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Barker's Crags and Scugdale

Swainby · DL6 3DP
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3.1MILES
1:33TIME
190mCLIMB
90%OFF-ROAD
Livestock — leads on

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.

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Swainby Country Park

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Swainby Country Park is a place to stay in Swainby. It is listed here so you know it is there, but we have not yet established whether dogs are welcome — so there is no verdict on this page and no stamp. If it is your business, claim the page and tell us, and we will stamp it.

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Swainby and the Cleveland Way

Swainby
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7.1MILES
3:13TIME
239mCLIMB
75%OFF-ROAD
Off-lead allowed Livestock — leads on

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.

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