Walk · North Yorkshire

Sherburn Willows Nature Reserve

Sherburn in Elmet · LS25 6AG

2.1MILES

1hON FOOT

45mCLIMB

CircularSHAPE

Off-road 65% 35% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 55%Lane & track 10%Road with traffic 35%

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.

Starts at

New Lane roadside verge at the Sherburn Willows reserve gate, Sherburn in Elmet LS25 6AG LS25 6AG

Parking

Roadside on New Lane only, free, room for perhaps six cars on the verge and it fills on fine weekend mornings; the alternative is to park in the village and walk out along New Lane

Directions to the start →

Three hectares of magnesian limestone grassland on the escarpment above New Lane, dropping steeply to a wet fen and willow carr at the bottom. Yorkshire Wildlife Trust allows dogs but says they must be on a lead, and the site is grazed by sheep or cattle including rare breed white park cattle, so lead work is not optional here. Parking is roadside on New Lane only, and there is no car park, so on a busy Sunday you may end up walking in from the village. The circuit described here links the reserve with New Lane and the lanes back into Sherburn, giving a short low-level round of about two miles rather than the ten minutes the reserve alone would take.

THE SMALL PRINTYorkshire Wildlife Trust requires dogs on a lead throughout the reserve. Sheep or cattle, including rare breed white park cattle, graze the grassland all year.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on

REGION · NORTH YORKSHIRE

GRID · 53.7869, -1.2589

SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.YWT.ORG.UK/NATURE-RESERVES/SHERBURN-WILLOWS-NATURE-RESERVE

Sherburn Willows Nature Reserve

House rules, decoded

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