Walk · East Riding of Yorkshire

Hornsea south beach to Mappleton

Hornsea · HU18 1PZ

5MILES

2h 30mON FOOT

25mCLIMB

Out & backSHAPE

Off-road 92% 8% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 88%Lane & track 4%Road with traffic 8%

Our drawing of the route — the shape of the walk, not a navigation aid. Carry OS Explorer on the hill. Off-lead information here is what walkers reported or what signage allows — never our advice. Whether and when a dog is off the lead is the owner’s decision and legal responsibility; keep dogs under control near livestock and follow signs on the day.

Starts at

Beach steps at the foot of Sands Lane, Hornsea HU18 1PZ

Parking

Pay and display on Marine Drive and the South Promenade car park at the end of Sands Lane

Directions to the start →

This is the walk that lets you avoid Hornsea's summer dog ban entirely. The council's dog Public Spaces Protection Order only covers the sand between the concrete ramp at Headland View and the steps south of Sands Lane, so if you drop onto the beach at the Sands Lane steps and turn south you are outside the order from the first stride, on any date, with no lead requirement. The sand runs past the last of the Hornsea Burton bungalows and then out under two and a half miles of raw boulder clay cliff to the two great rock groynes that hold Mappleton up. It needs a falling tide: at high water the sea reaches the clay in several places and there is no way up. Coastal erosion here is measured in metres a year, so keep out from the foot of the cliff, where fresh slumps of clay and fence posts come down without notice.

House rules, decoded

Off-lead allowed

REGION · EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE

GRID · 53.9083, -0.1608

SOURCE · HTTPS://ROOSPARISHCOUNCIL.EASTRIDING.GOV.UK/DATA/SITES/20/MEDIA/PSPO---DOG-LEAFLET.PDF

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