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Bolton Percy Station Nature Reserve

Bolton Percy · YO23 7AW
N 440 YD
1.2MILES
35mON FOOT
5mCLIMB
Out & backSHAPE
Off-road 100% 0% shares tarmac with cars
Field & moor path 60%Lane & track 40%

Route diagram, drawn from the recorded track — for the shape of the walk, not for navigation. Carry OS Explorer on the hill.

Starts at
YO23 7AW
Directions to the start →

A gentle mile and a bit along two firm linear paths, one grassy and one cinder, over the platform, goods yard and trackbed of the vanished Bolton Percy station, now two hectares of grassland, hedge and scrub full of butterflies; half an hour at most and utterly flat. There is a small car park at the end of the access lane, or walk out from Bolton Percy village half a mile away, and the reserve is best between May and July for wildflowers and birdsong. Yorkshire Wildlife Trust asks that dogs are kept on a lead throughout, the paths are permissive rather than rights of way, and you must not let a dog near the fences to the live railway line alongside; there is no water on site and the grassy path holds wet in winter.

THE SMALL PRINTDogs must be on a lead throughout the reserve; the paths are permissive and run alongside a live railway line.
REGION · NORTH YORKSHIRE
GRID · 53.8668, -1.1977
SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.YWT.ORG.UK/NATURE-RESERVES/BOLTON-PERCY-STATION-NATURE-RESERVE
Also in Bolton Percy
N 440 YD
Walk DOGS WELCOME

Bolton Percy village and field loop

3.6 MI · 1H 27M · 65% OFF-ROAD

Three and a half miles of lane and field path out of Bolton Percy, past the enormous fifteenth-century church that dwarfs its village, with barely ten metres of climbing and about an hour and a half on the move. Park considerately on the village street near the church; there is no useful bus, so this is one for the car, and it pairs neatly with the station nature reserve half a mile down the lane. Quiet single-track lanes make up a good share of the route so a steady dog can walk loose between fields, but the arable land is worked and stock appears in the pasture, and the cross-field paths go to heavy clay in winter which makes this a firm-ground walk rather than a January one.

Livestock — leads on
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