Walk · North Yorkshire

The Ure & Aldborough Loop

Aldborough

3.7MILES

1h 31mON FOOT

30mCLIMB

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Off-road 57% 43% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 40%Lane & track 17%Road with traffic 43%

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.

Three and three quarter miles and about an hour and a half of genuinely flat walking, just 30 metres of climb, along the Ure and back through open fields and the quiet lanes of Aldborough, with roughly a third of it on tarmac and the rest on firm riverside paths. Start at the green in Aldborough beside St Andrew's church, where there is free roadside parking, and the English Heritage Roman town and museum sits a minute away on the route. The Ship Inn takes dogs in the bar for a halfway pint; the field sections carry stock in summer and the Ure is deep and quick at the bank, so leads on for the riverside and the village roads.

THE SMALL PRINTDogs on leads along the riverbank, where the Ure is deep and fast, on the village roads and through fields carrying stock in summer.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on

REGION · NORTH YORKSHIRE

GRID · 54.0872, -1.3852

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