Hornsea Rail Trail, Hornsea Town to Sigglesthorne station

The Hornsea Rail Trail is the old Hull and Hornsea railway, now the eastern end of the Trans Pennine Trail, and it starts a few yards behind the arched frontage of Hornsea Town station on Railway Street. Heading inland it drops through the cutting to the site of Hornsea Bridge station, crosses the Stream Dike and then runs dead straight across the Holderness plain in a green corridor of hawthorn and blackthorn, with the water of Hornsea Mere showing away to the right. It is level, wide and traffic free the whole way, which makes it the reliable wet-weather option when the clifftops are running with mud, and it is shared with cyclists and horse riders. The Trans Pennine Trail's own user code asks that dogs are kept under close control and in sight, that a short lead is used on busy sections and near farm animals and horses, and that you clear up. Sigglesthorne station, oddly, sits at Great Hatfield rather than Sigglesthorne, and the Wrygarth Inn is a short walk from the old platform.