Eastern Cemetery and Marfleet Fields

This is the one Hull City Council walking route that comes with a lead instruction, and it is worth knowing why: it runs through the Eastern Cemetery, still an active burial ground, entered by the stone gates off Preston Road and circled on its own service roads past the red-brick chapel. Beyond the cemetery it takes Poorhouse Lane past Craven Park, joins the tree-lined track on the old Hull to Withernsea railway, crosses Greatfield Lane and Marfleet Lane by the site of Marfleet station, then goes out across Marfleet fields and over a footbridge on the Marfleet drain. Hull is a unitary authority with no dog control Public Spaces Protection Order, so the lead here is a courtesy rule attached to a working cemetery rather than a byelaw. Underfoot it is the roughest of the council's east Hull routes, with boggy ground on the field section and steep little inclines.