Walk · North Yorkshire

Cayton village, Killerby and the Carr

Cayton · YO11 3RS
Eastfield Cayton B1261 Carr Lane Osgodby Lane Eastway N 880 YD © OpenStreetMap contributors
4.8MILES
2h 20mON FOOT
95mCLIMB
CircularSHAPE
The route A-road B-road Lane Track Path Water Woodland
Off-road 80% 20% shares tarmac with cars
Field & moor path 45%Lane & track 35%Road with traffic 20%

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.

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YO11 3RS
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An easy 4.8-mile circular of about two and a quarter hours over the flat farmland behind the coast, through Killerby and along the drains of Cayton Carr, only 95 metres of climbing but heavy clay underfoot from November to March. Start by St John the Baptist church on Church Lane in Cayton, where there is free roadside parking, and the number 12 bus from Scarborough stops on Main Street. The carr drains give water most of the year and there are long, quiet field-edge stretches, but cattle are usually out between Killerby and the Carr, several boundaries have stiles, and half a mile is on the lane through Killerby with no pavement.

THE SMALL PRINTCattle graze the low fields between Killerby and Cayton Carr through the summer, so this is a lead walk for much of its length. Around half a mile runs along Killerby Lane, which has no pavement.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on
REGION · NORTH YORKSHIRE
GRID · 54.2410, -0.3866
SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.KOMOOT.COM/GUIDE/674342/HIKING-AROUND-SCARBOROUGH
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