South Cave, Comber Dale and East Dale on the Wolds Way

The Yorkshire Wolds Way leaves South Cave up Beverley Road and this is the classic circuit off the first few miles of it, through Little Wold Plantation and down into Comber Dale, one of the deepest and quietest dry valleys at the southern end of the Wolds. At the head of Comber Dale the trail slips into the cutting of the never-finished Hull and Barnsley railway at Weedley Springs, then climbs steeply out into East Dale with the chalk showing through the turf. The return is on the wold-top tracks by Swinescaife and back down the plantation edge to the village. This is the biggest climbing in the patch and every field on the tops is working farmland.