Walk · North Yorkshire

Kepwick and the Hambleton Escarpment

Kepwick · YO7 2JP

4.25MILES

2h 4mON FOOT

217mCLIMB

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The route A-road B-road Lane Track Path Water Woodland

Off-road 60% 40% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 56%Lane & track 4%Road with traffic 40%

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. 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.

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YO7 2JP

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Four and a quarter miles from Kepwick up the escarpment on a sunken track and back down the Gallow Hill descent, about two hours with 217 metres of climbing - the only real ascent anywhere in this patch. Park considerately in Kepwick, which has no facilities at all, so fill water bottles before you set off. The climb is on good grass and stone, but the top is open access moorland where dogs must be on a short lead in the ground-nesting bird season, and sheep graze the moor edge all year.

THE SMALL PRINTOpen access moorland: dogs must be on a lead of no more than two metres from 1 March to 31 July for ground-nesting birds, and under close control near sheep all year.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on

REGION · NORTH YORKSHIRE

GRID · 54.3109, -1.2835

SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.KOMOOT.COM/SMARTTOUR/9319983

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