Walk · North Yorkshire

Coatham Marsh circuit

Redcar · TS10 5QW

2.2MILES

1h 5mON FOOT

12mCLIMB

CircularSHAPE

Off-road 95% 5% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 60%Lane & track 35%Road with traffic 5%

Our drawing of the route — the shape of the walk, 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.

Starts at

Tod Point Road car park, Warrenby, on the northern edge of the reserve TS10 5QW

Parking

Free Tod Point Road car park, no barrier, rarely full even at weekends

Directions to the start →

Coatham Marsh is a Tees Valley Wildlife Trust reserve of lakes, reedbed and old ballast mounds squeezed between Redcar's western edge and the Warrenby steelworks land, and the circuit round the two main waters is a flat two miles. The Trust's instruction on the reserve is blunt and printed on its own page: keep dogs on a lead, clear up after your animals, do not disturb the wildlife. Start from the free Tod Point Road car park halfway along the Warrenby side; paths are surfaced on the south of the reserve and unsurfaced on the north, and several flood after heavy rain. It is a birdwatchers' reserve rather than a running-about one, so this is the walk for a wet January morning when the beach is blowing sand, not for a dog that needs to burn off an hour.

THE SMALL PRINTTees Valley Wildlife Trust requires dogs on a lead throughout the reserve. No off-lead running anywhere on site.

REGION · NORTH YORKSHIRE

GRID · 54.6197, -1.1002

SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.TEESWILDLIFE.ORG/NATURE-RESERVES/COATHAM-MARSH-SSSI

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