Walk · East Riding of Yorkshire

Humber Bridge Country Park and Foreshore Circular

Hessle · HU13 0LN
N 440 YD
2.7MILES
1h 30mON FOOT
58mCLIMB
CircularSHAPE
Off-road 95% 5% shares tarmac with cars
Field & moor path 62%Lane & track 33%Road with traffic 5%

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

Starts at
The main Humber Bridge Country Park car park off Ferriby Road, Hessle, by the visitor information board and the carved waymark owls HU13 0LN
Parking
Free council car park on Ferriby Road, plus a second free car park down on the foreshore which is the step-free option. Both fill from mid-morning on fine weekends and on any day the bridge viewing is
Directions to the start →

A worked-out chalk quarry on the cliff above the Humber, now a 21-hectare local nature reserve of woodland, meadow, ponds and bare white quarry faces, joined to the tidal foreshore directly beneath the north tower of the Humber Bridge. The reserve is East Riding of Yorkshire Council land, not Hull's, and the council's own page asks only that a dog is kept under close control and picked up after, so the woods and meadow trails are the nearest thing to off-lead ground within reach of Hull. The route drops through the quarry that locals call Little Switzerland, comes out on the foreshore path under the bridge deck, runs east on gravel past the Old Black Mill and climbs back up through the meadow. There is no livestock, but the foreshore itself is a separate council site with a lead rule, and the Humber tide comes in fast over soft mud.

THE SMALL PRINTEast Riding of Yorkshire Council's own page for the reserve says: "You can bring your dog but you should pick up after it and it should be kept under close control." There is no lead requirement inside the country park. The foreshore section of this route is a separate council site whose page says "Dogs must be on a lead at all times", so lead up when you drop down to the water. The council's dog control Public Spaces Protection Order does not exclude dogs from anywhere on this route; its beach exclusions cover only named stretches at Bridlington, Hornsea and Withernsea.

House rules, decoded

Off-lead OK
REGION · EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE
GRID · 53.7196, -0.4573
SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.EASTRIDINGCOASTANDCOUNTRYSIDE.CO.UK/URL-DIRECTORY/FIND/?ENTRY=HUMBER_BRIDGE_COUNTRY_PARK_NATURE_RESERVE
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