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Walk · North Yorkshire

Hole of Horcum

Levisham
N 880 YD
5MILES
2h 45mON FOOT
200mCLIMB
CircularSHAPE
Off-road 95% 5% shares tarmac with cars
Field & moor path 70%Lane & track 25%Road with traffic 5%

Route diagram, drawn from the recorded track — for the shape of the walk, not for navigation. Carry OS Explorer on the hill.

A five-mile moorland circuit from Saltergate car park on the A169 around the Devil's Punchbowl - a natural amphitheatre 400 feet deep and half a mile across - over Levisham Moor and back through the rocky ravine of Dundale Griff, with an optional diversion to Skelton Tower above Newton Dale. Sheep and cattle graze the whole route, so dogs stay on leads or close to heel throughout. Boggy in places after rain; a proper moorland leg-stretch.

THE SMALL PRINTOn leads throughout - sheep and cattle graze the moor

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on
REGION · NORTH YORKSHIRE
GRID · 54.3553, -0.7098
SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.PAULBEAL.COM/HOLE-OF-HORCUM-CIRCULAR-WALK/
Also in Levisham
N 1 MILE
Walk SOME LIMITS

Newton Dale and Levisham

YO18 7NN
8 MI · 3H 48M · 85% OFF-ROAD

Eight miles and 360 metres of climbing in something under four hours, starting flat along the floor of Newton Dale beside the steam railway before a steep pull out of the dale to Levisham village. The obvious start is Levisham station car park, and the walk works beautifully as a train day out from Pickering or Grosmont on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. There is water in the beck all the way up the dale and long off-lead stretches through Levisham Wood, but sheep graze the dale sides and the moor edge, and the railway is live, so leads at every crossing.

Off-lead OK Livestock — leads on
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