Walk · East Riding of Yorkshire

Hudson Way Rail Trail: Kiplingcotes to Market Weighton

Market Weighton · YO43 3NA

3.3MILES

1h 35mON FOOT

25mCLIMB

Linear — plan the returnSHAPE

Off-road 95% 5% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 45%Lane & track 50%Road with traffic 5%

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

The free Kiplingcotes car park at the old station, on the lane between Middleton on the Wolds and South Dalton YO43 3NA

Finishes at

The old Market Weighton station site off Station Road, five minutes walk from the Market PlaceLinear — plan how you get back

Parking

Free council car park at Kiplingcotes station, about fifteen spaces on hardcore, with an information board and no other facilities. Free parking again at the Market Weighton end off Station Road.

Directions to the start →

The best three miles of the old Beverley to Market Weighton line, running west from the surviving platform and station house at Kiplingcotes through a deep chalk cutting and out onto an embankment above Goodmanham. This is the stretch managed as a linear nature reserve, thick with cowslips and marjoram on the cutting sides in summer and completely traffic-free, ending at the old Market Weighton station site a few minutes from the Market Place. It is a grass and cinder surface for most of the way with a made stone path for the last kilometre into town, and it can be genuinely claggy from November to March. Kiplingcotes Chalk Pit sits three hundred metres from the car park and is a Yorkshire Wildlife Trust reserve that bans dogs outright, so keep to the trail itself.

THE SMALL PRINTEast Riding of Yorkshire Council's own page for the Hudson Way: you can bring your dog but you should pick up after it and it should be on a lead or kept under close control. No lead order applies to the trail. Two Yorkshire Wildlife Trust reserves adjoin it and both say no dogs permitted - Kiplingcotes Chalk Pit, 300 metres from the car park, and Rifle Butts Quarry near Goodmanham - because both are grazed by Hebridean sheep.

House rules, decoded

Off-lead allowed

REGION · EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE

GRID · 53.8818, -0.5860

SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.EASTRIDINGCOASTANDCOUNTRYSIDE.CO.UK/URL-DIRECTORY/FIND/?ENTRY=HUDSON_WAY_RAIL_TRAIL

Hudson Way Rail Trail: Kiplingcotes to Market Weighton

House rules, decoded

Carpenters Arms

Half Moon

Market Weighton Social Club

Dog-friendly cottages you can book

Tell us the pub we have not walked into yet.

Get the new stamps first.

Your patch, watched for you.