The Griffin Inn

Hudson Way Rail Trail: Kiplingcotes to Market Weighton

The best three miles of the old Beverley to Market Weighton line, running west from the surviving platform and station house at Kiplingcotes through a deep chalk cutting and out onto an embankment above Goodmanham. This is the stretch managed as a linear nature reserve, thick with cowslips and marjoram on the cutting sides in summer and completely traffic-free, ending at the old Market Weighton station site a few minutes from the Market Place. It is a grass and cinder surface for most of the way with a made stone path for the last kilometre into town, and it can be genuinely claggy from November to March. Kiplingcotes Chalk Pit sits three hundred metres from the car park and is a Yorkshire Wildlife Trust reserve that bans dogs outright, so keep to the trail itself.