Walk · North Yorkshire

Rosedale Ironstone Railway

Rosedale Abbey

4MILES

2hON FOOT

40mCLIMB

Out & backSHAPE

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

Off-road 98% 2% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 10%Lane & track 88%Road with traffic 2%

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.

A level four-mile out-and-back from Bank Top car park at the head of Rosedale Chimney Bank, following the trackbed of the Victorian ironstone railway past the monumental ruined calcining kilns, with uninterrupted views down the dale for the entire length. The compacted stone path has no significant gradients, but this is a permissive route across grouse moor: dogs on leads at all times for the sheep and ground-nesting birds. Bleakly beautiful industrial archaeology at its best.

THE SMALL PRINTOn leads at all times - permissive path over grazed moorland with ground-nesting birds

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on

REGION · NORTH YORKSHIRE

GRID · 54.3428, -0.8341

SOURCE · HTTPS://VISITNORTHYORKSHIRE.COM/INDEX/ROSEDALE-MINERAL-RAILWAY-EASY-ACCESS-WALK

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