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Captain Cook's Monument

Great Ayton
River Leven River Leven Mill Bank Wood N 440 YD © OpenStreetMap contributors
2MILES
1h 10mON FOOT
160mCLIMB
Out & backSHAPE
The route A-road B-road Lane Track Path Water Woodland
Off-road 95% 5% shares tarmac with cars
Field & moor path 60%Lane & track 35%Road with traffic 5%

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. Off-lead information here is what walkers reported or what signage allows — never our advice. Whether and when a dog is off the lead is the owner’s decision and legal responsibility; keep dogs under control near livestock and follow signs on the day.

A short, steady climb from the free Gribdale Gate car park up through larch woods to the 60-foot obelisk of 1827 on Easby Moor, raised to the explorer who grew up in Great Ayton below. Views sweep to Roseberry Topping and across the Cleveland plain, and a longer circuit links both summits via the Cleveland Way. Popular with dog walkers, but livestock graze along the trail, so leads on at times.

THE SMALL PRINTLeads where livestock graze along the route

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on
REGION · NORTH YORKSHIRE
GRID · 54.4890, -1.0928
SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.VISITGREATAYTON.COM/WHAT-TO-DO-IN-GREAT-AYTON/WALK/CAPTAIN-COOKS-MONUMENT
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Bridge Guest House

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Bridge Guest House is a place to stay in Great Ayton. 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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1 MILE © OpenStreetMap contributors 7.9 MI · LOOP
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Captain Cook's Monument and Hutton Moor from Dikes Lane

Great Ayton · TS9 6NA
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7.9MILES
3:38TIME
300mCLIMB
90%OFF-ROAD
Off-lead allowed Livestock — leads on

A 7.9-mile circuit with 300 metres of ascent and about three and three quarter hours, taking in Roseberry Common, the woods above Hutton Village and the long moor-top return to the obelisk on Easby Moor; the moor sections are firm sandy track but the climb from Hutton Village is steep and stepped. It starts at the Dikes Lane car park below Roseberry Topping, which is small and free and full by nine on a clear Saturday, with the alternative being Gribdale Gate a mile and a half round the other side. Newton Wood and the Guisborough plantations are grand for a dog off the lead and there are streams to drink from, but Roseberry Common and Great Ayton Moor carry sheep all year and the whole moor holds ground-nesting birds between 1 March and 31 July.

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Fletchers Farm Coffee Shop

TS9 6HZ
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A working-farm coffee shop at Little Ayton, signposted off Great Ayton high street, serving breakfasts, sandwiches, home baking and Sunday lunch until half past three. Its own site says dogs are most welcome both inside and outside the coffee shop, which is unusually plain wording for a food business, and there is a decked balcony and tables by the stream as well as the indoor room with its log burner. Free parking in the main and overflow car parks means it works as the start or end of a walk rather than somewhere you have to leave the dog in the car.

In the dining room
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