Walk · North Yorkshire

Cover Banks and East Witton from Middleham

Middleham · DL8 4NP

6MILES

3h 15mON FOOT

180mCLIMB

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

Off-road 85% 15% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 60%Lane & track 25%Road with traffic 15%

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

DL8 4NP

Directions to the start →

Six miles and around three and a quarter hours from the castle down to the wooded banks of the River Cover, along to the packhorse crossing at Hullo Bridge and out to the long green at East Witton, returning past the Cover Bridge Inn; the riverside path is steep-sided and rooty in places. Start in Middleham market place, where parking is free; the 159 bus from Leyburn and Ripon stops in the square. The Cover is shallow, clean and easy to reach for a swim and a drink which makes this a good hot-day walk, but the meadows are grazed so the lead stays on, and the real warning is the gallops - Middleham trains hundreds of racehorses and strings work the moor and the lanes from dawn, so a dog off the lead near them is a serious hazard; stiles are mostly wooden steps, with one narrow stone squeeze near Hullo Bridge.

THE SMALL PRINTLeads throughout - grazed riverside meadows and racehorse gallops on Middleham Low Moor, where strings of horses have right of way and a loose dog is genuinely dangerous.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on

REGION · NORTH YORKSHIRE

GRID · 54.2870, -1.8060

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Cover Banks and East Witton from Middleham

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