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Walk · North Yorkshire

The Wolds Way east from Ganton to Staxton Wold

Ganton · YO12 4NX
N 880 YD
4.1MILES
2h 30mON FOOT
125mCLIMB
Out & backSHAPE
Off-road 90% 10% shares tarmac with cars
Field & moor path 75%Lane & track 15%Road with traffic 10%

Our drawing of the route — the shape of the walk, not a navigation aid. Carry OS Explorer on the hill.

Starts at
The Ganton Greyhound on Main Road, Ganton (YO12 4NX); the Yorkshire Wolds Way is signed off the road just east of the pub YO12 4NX
Parking
Roadside in Ganton village, free and rarely full. The pub car park is for customers. The Yorkshire Coastliner bus stops opposite the pub.
Directions to the start →

The Yorkshire Wolds Way passes through Ganton village, and this is the leg east from the Greyhound, climbing steadily from 44 metres in the village to about 160 metres on the wold edge above Staxton. It is field-edge footpath almost throughout, following the top of the escarpment with the Vale of Pickering, Wykeham and the North York Moors on your left the whole way. The turning point is where the trail reaches Staxton Bank on the B1249; the last mile is the steepest, so it is an easy walk to cut short if the dog has had enough. There is no water on the route once you leave the village.

THE SMALL PRINTPublic footpath across working arable and grazing land for its whole length. The Countryside Code applies: keep the dog on a lead or in sight, keep to the path, and put it on a lead around livestock; a farmer may lawfully shoot a dog that chases or attacks stock. The far end of the walk meets the B1249 at Staxton Bank, which is fast and has no pavement, so lead up well before it.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on
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Pub SOME LIMITS

The Ganton Greyhound

YO12 4NX
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A former coaching inn on Main Road, the old A64 line through Ganton, with a bar, a lounge and a large beer garden behind, plus free parking on site. The inn publishes a clear dog policy in its booking terms: dogs in the bedroom, the beer garden, the bar and the lounge, but not the restaurant, and never left alone in a room. Several bedrooms are listed on the rooms page as a Dog Free Zone, so the dog rooms are a specific set and worth naming when you book. Ganton Golf Club is a few hundred yards west and the Yorkshire Wolds Way runs along the escarpment a mile and a half to the south, so this is a sensible base for the wold-top walking.

In the bar
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