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Walk · North Yorkshire

Helperthorpe and Green Lane

Helperthorpe · YO17 8TJ
N 440 YD
2.1MILES
1hON FOOT
35mCLIMB
Out & backSHAPE
Off-road 0% 100% shares tarmac with cars
Road with traffic 100%

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

Starts at
Helperthorpe village street by St Peter's church (YO17 8TJ), taking the lane north out of the village YO17 8TJ
Parking
Roadside in the village. No car park, no shop, no pub - the nearest of any of those is Weaverthorpe, a mile east.
Directions to the start →

Helperthorpe has no field path of its own - no public footpath or bridleway is recorded leaving the village - so its walking is on lanes, and this is the best of them. North out of the village past St Peter's, then west along Green Lane, an unclassified road that runs the length of the valley side above the Great Wold Valley with barely a car on it. Turn where you like and come back the same way; two miles round is the version described here. Helperthorpe carries one of the nine Great Wold Valley Heritage Trail interpretation boards, and this is the stretch where the Gypsey Race runs underground and the valley bottom stays dry.

THE SMALL PRINTAll of this is on public road, so the dog wants a lead throughout - Green Lane is single track with blind bends and farm traffic. There is no Public Spaces Protection Order in the parish, so no seasonal ban and no fixed penalty zone, but the fouling law still applies.
REGION · NORTH YORKSHIRE
GRID · 54.1207, -0.5442
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