Walk · North Yorkshire

Cleveland Way south: Scarborough Spa to Cayton Bay

Scarborough · YO11 2HD

5.5MILES

3hON FOOT

200mCLIMB

Linear — plan the returnSHAPE

The route A-road B-road Lane Track Path Water Woodland

Off-road 74% 26% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 62%Lane & track 12%Road with traffic 26%

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.

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YO11 2HD

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Five and a half linear miles of about three hours along the softest cliffs on the North Yorkshire coast, with 200 metres of up and down, a couple of long flights of steps and a stretch of tarmac where the trail has been diverted inland by landslip at Osgodby. Start at the Spa and catch the number 12 or 13 bus back from the A165 at Cayton Bay, which runs every half hour. Cornelian Bay and Cayton Bay are both dog friendly all year and reachable down steep wooded steps, but this cliff is actively slipping, the edge is unfenced for most of the way, and the diversion follows the verge of a fast main road.

THE SMALL PRINTThe Cleveland Way has been lost to landslip at Osgodby and is diverted along roughly half a mile of the A165 verge and Osgodby Lane, where dogs must be on the lead. The cliff edge from the Spa to Knipe Point is unfenced, undercut and actively slipping in places.

REGION · NORTH YORKSHIRE

GRID · 54.2758, -0.3965

SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.NATIONALTRAIL.CO.UK/EN_GB/TRAILS/CLEVELAND-WAY/ROUTE/

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