Hackfall Woods

Grewelthorpe, Hackfall & the Ure

Seven and three quarter miles and about three and a half hours on a big circuit from the village down into the wooded gorge of Hackfall, out along the River Ure and back over the fields, with 170 metres of climbing and some genuinely steep, rooty, slippery ground inside the wood. Start in Grewelthorpe by the pond where there is roadside parking, or use the small Woodland Trust car park on the Masham road for the Hackfall end. The wood itself, with its Georgian follies and cascades, is good off-lead ground for a dog with recall, but the farmland either side is grazed and the Ure has steep undercut banks, so leads go back on at the wood gate.