Walk · North Yorkshire

Kilburn White Horse and the Gliding Club

Kilburn · YO61 4AH
A170 Hotel Plantation Kilburn Moor Plantation N 440 YD © OpenStreetMap contributors
3.8MILES
1h 42mON FOOT
120mCLIMB
CircularSHAPE
The route A-road B-road Lane Track Path Water Woodland
Off-road 90% 10% shares tarmac with cars
Field & moor path 60%Lane & track 30%Road with traffic 10%

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.

Starts at
YO61 4AH
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A 3.8-mile escarpment loop with 120 metres of ascent and about an hour and three quarters, running north along the cliff top past the Yorkshire Gliding Club before dropping back below the White Horse itself; the top path is level and firm, the return through the beech hangar is steep, rooty and slippery after rain. It starts at the White Horse car park on the Kilburn road below Sutton Bank, which is pay-and-display and has an ice cream van most summer afternoons but no other facilities. There is no water anywhere on the route so carry it, the woodland below the escarpment is fine for a dog off the lead, but the cliff edge is entirely unfenced with a hundred-metre drop, gliders are winch-launched close to the path, and the turf figure itself is fenced off to protect it.

THE SMALL PRINTLead along the unfenced cliff edge and past the gliding club launch area; the White Horse turf itself is fenced and out of bounds

House rules, decoded

Off-lead OK
REGION · NORTH YORKSHIRE
GRID · 54.2292, -1.2080
SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.KOMOOT.COM/SMARTTOUR/27247935
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