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Kirby Grindalythe wold-top bridleway circular

Kirby Grindalythe · YO17 8DE
N 440 YD
2.5MILES
1h 20mON FOOT
68mCLIMB
CircularSHAPE
Off-road 70% 30% shares tarmac with cars
Field & moor path 10%Lane & track 60%Road with traffic 30%

Our drawing of the route — the shape of the walk, 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
By St Andrew's Church on High Street, Kirby Grindalythe (YO17 8DE), where the bridleway leaves the road north-west YO17 8DE
Parking
Roadside on High Street near the church, free and normally empty. There is no car park in the village.
Directions to the start →

Kirby Grindalythe sits on the Gypsey Race in the Great Wold Valley, and this loop takes the bridleway climbing north-west out of the village onto the wold at about 173 metres, runs west along the wold-top track towards High Mowthorpe, then drops back south-west on a second bridleway to rejoin High Street a mile west of the village. St Andrew's church at the start has a vast Victorian mosaic of St Christopher on its west wall, which is worth two minutes before you set off. The last mile back into the village is on the valley road, which is quiet but has no pavement. The Gypsey Race is usually dry here in summer, so this is not a walk to rely on for the dog to drink.

THE SMALL PRINTPublic bridleways across working arable and grazing land, with about a mile of unpavemented public road at the end. The Countryside Code applies: keep the dog on a lead or in sight, keep to the path, and put it on a lead around livestock; a farmer may lawfully shoot a dog that is chasing or attacking stock. Lead on for the road section, which carries farm traffic.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on
REGION · NORTH YORKSHIRE
GRID · 54.0952, -0.6181
SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.GOV.UK/GOVERNMENT/PUBLICATIONS/THE-COUNTRYSIDE-CODE/THE-COUNTRYSIDE-CODE-ADVICE-FOR-COUNTRYSIDE-VISITORS
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Kirby Grindalythe Wold Bridleway Circular

Kirby Grindalythe · YO17 8DE
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2.6MILES
1:20TIME
90mCLIMB
65%OFF-ROAD
Livestock — leads on

The best short walk of the Great Wold Valley villages, and nearly all of it on public bridleway, which means gates instead of stiles and room for a dog on a long line. Out of Kirby Grindalythe past St Andrew's, up the grass bridleway signed at each end that climbs north-west onto the wold, along the gravel track on the top with the whole valley behind you, then down a second bridleway to High Street. Open arable with skylarks over it and no shade at all on the top section. The Gypsey Race in the valley bottom only runs in some years, so do not count on it for water.

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