Walk · North Yorkshire

Hunmanby to Filey on the Centenary Way

Hunmanby · YO14 0JR
Filey Hunmanby Muston Royal Oak A165 A1039 High Lane Filey Road Long Plantation Bur-Marigold Pond Boating Lake N 880 YD © OpenStreetMap contributors
4.2MILES
2h 2mON FOOT
70mCLIMB
Linear — plan the returnSHAPE
The route A-road B-road Lane Track Path Water Woodland
Off-road 80% 20% shares tarmac with cars
Field & moor path 50%Lane & track 30%Road with traffic 20%

Our drawing of the route, over road and path data from OpenStreetMap. It shows where the walk goes and what it goes through. It is not a survey and not a navigation aid — carry OS Explorer on the hill.

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Four and a bit linear miles of about two hours north-east across gently rising farmland into Filey, with only 70 metres of climbing, field-edge paths and green lanes, and one long claggy section after rain near Muston Grange. Start at the Market Place in Hunmanby, where parking is free, and take the train back from Filey to Hunmanby, a five-minute hop on the Scarborough line. The green lanes are quiet and wide enough for a dog to work ahead, but the route crosses grazed fields with kissing gates and stiles, passes close to Filey Dams nature reserve where dogs are not allowed at all, and finishes on town pavement.

THE SMALL PRINTSheep graze several of the fields on this route, so a lead is needed for the middle section. Dogs are not permitted at all inside the Filey Dams nature reserve, which the path passes close to on the edge of Filey, and the final half mile is on town pavement.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on
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Beach Cafe, Hunmanby Gap

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A beloved cafe right at Hunmanby Gap, about four miles south of Filey along the sands, whose sign famously welcomes 'dogs with well behaved owners'. The classic finish to a long dog gallop down Filey Bay's quieter end.

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Hunmanby Gap

Dogs allowed all year

A long, quiet stretch of shoreline running from the Speeton cliffs up to Filey, reached by a steep path from a private cash-only clifftop car park. Dogs are welcome all year, and its distance from the crowds makes it a favourite escape when Filey's central beach ban is in force.

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Hunmanby Gap beach and clifftop circular

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3.1 MI · 1H 20M · 85% OFF-ROAD

A short 3.1-mile circular of about an hour and twenty minutes, down the gap onto Hunmanby Sands, north along the beach towards Filey and back up onto the clifftop path, with the 70 metres of climbing all in one pull. Park at Hunmanby Gap at the end of Sands Lane, where there is a small pay-and-display and a beach cafe; it is two miles down from Hunmanby village, which has the nearest station. This end of Filey Bay carries no seasonal dog ban at all, so it is the reliable summer choice on this coast, with miles of firm sand to run on, but check the tide because the beach narrows towards Reighton and the clifftop path runs close to a soft, slumping edge.

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