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.
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.
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