Walk · North Yorkshire

Cridling Stubbs to Womersley by the lanes

Cridling Stubbs · WF11 0BA
N 880 YD
4.1MILES
2hON FOOT
40mCLIMB
Out & backSHAPE
Off-road 15% 85% shares tarmac with cars
Field & moor path 5%Lane & track 10%Road with traffic 85%

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
Cobcroft Lane in the middle of Cridling Stubbs, WF11 0BA WF11 0BA
Parking
Roadside on Cobcroft Lane, free, a handful of spaces on the verge and no pressure on them; park considerately as the lane is used by farm vehicles
Directions to the start →

Cridling Stubbs has no shop, no green and no waymarked route, so the walk here is the lane south-east to Womersley, past Northfield Lane and the Blue Lagoon dive lake and on to St Martin's church. It is single-track tarmac with grass verges and no pavement, running through open arable with the A1 a constant background noise from the west, and it is the sort of walk that suits a dog that will heel: sightlines are long but farm traffic moves quickly. Because it crosses working farmland the Countryside Code applies, which means keeping the dog on a lead or in sight, off the crops and on a lead around livestock. Turn at the church and come back, or make a day of it by picking up the parish council's seven-and-a-half-mile Womersley circular from there.

THE SMALL PRINTSingle-track lane with no pavement and farm traffic throughout. Countryside Code applies on the field-edge sections: dog on a lead or in sight, not straying from the path, and on a lead around livestock.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on
REGION · NORTH YORKSHIRE
GRID · 53.6873, -1.2145
SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.GOV.UK/GOVERNMENT/PUBLICATIONS/THE-COUNTRYSIDE-CODE/THE-COUNTRYSIDE-CODE-ADVICE-FOR-COUNTRYSIDE-VISITORS

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