Sandsend, Mulgrave Woods and the old castle

Four miles and about two hours on broad estate carriage drives through one of the finest beech and oak woods on the coast, out to the ruined thirteenth-century castle on its ridge and back down the other side of the valley, with 160 metres of easy climbing. Start at the East Row car park in Sandsend, a few minutes from the woodland gate, with the 4 and X4 buses from Whitby stopping beside the beck. The tracks are wide and dry and the becks run all year, but access is by the estate's permission on set days only and dogs must be on the lead throughout the woods, where there is a shoot and roe deer.