Our drawing of the route — the shape of the walk, not a navigation aid. Carry OS Explorer on the hill.
The Yorkshire Wolds Way leaves Market Weighton beside the old station and climbs gently north-east to Goodmanham, the village where Coifi the pagan priest is said to have thrown his spear into his own temple in 627. The route passes All Hallows church and the Goodmanham Arms, then swings up into Goodmanham Dale, a proper chalk valley with the trail running along the floor of it, before turning back over the wold and dropping down field edges to the town. It is arable country, so the paths are cross-field and headland tracks that get heavy after ploughing, and there is stock in some of the dale pastures. Rifle Butts Quarry, the little Yorkshire Wildlife Trust reserve above Goodmanham, does not allow dogs at all, so keep to the waymarked trail.
Half Moon is a pub on High Street, Market Weighton. It is listed here so you know it is there, but we have not yet established whether dogs are welcome — so there is no verdict on this page and no stamp. If it is your business, claim the page and tell us, and we will stamp it.
The best three miles of the old Beverley to Market Weighton line, running west from the surviving platform and station house at Kiplingcotes through a deep chalk cutting and out onto an embankment above Goodmanham. This is the stretch managed as a linear nature reserve, thick with cowslips and marjoram on the cutting sides in summer and completely traffic-free, ending at the old Market Weighton station site a few minutes from the Market Place. It is a grass and cinder surface for most of the way with a made stone path for the last kilometre into town, and it can be genuinely claggy from November to March. Kiplingcotes Chalk Pit sits three hundred metres from the car park and is a Yorkshire Wildlife Trust reserve that bans dogs outright, so keep to the trail itself.
Market Weighton Social Club is a pub on Southgate, Market Weighton. It is listed here so you know it is there, but we have not yet established whether dogs are welcome — so there is no verdict on this page and no stamp. If it is your business, claim the page and tell us, and we will stamp it.
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