Walk · North Yorkshire

Kepwick to Black Hambleton

Kepwick · YO7 2JP

8.93MILES

4h 3mON FOOT

290mCLIMB

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

Off-road 88% 12% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 66%Lane & track 22%Road with traffic 12%

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.

Starts at

YO7 2JP

Directions to the start →

Nearly nine miles and 290 metres of climb from Kepwick up to the Black Hambleton summit cairn by way of Whitestone Scar, four hours or so on gravel moor track and grassy path with big views back over the Vale of Mowbray. Park considerately in the village; there is nothing on the route at all, so carry water because the moor tops run dry by midsummer. Open access moorland means a short lead through the ground-nesting bird season, sheep are loose on the tops, and the gravel track is hard on soft pads over that distance.

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 · 54.3114, -1.2827

SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.KOMOOT.COM/SMARTTOUR/27251092

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