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Walk · North Yorkshire

Speeton Cliffs and Bempton from Reighton

Reighton
N 1 MILE
10.1MILES
4h 24mON FOOT
210mCLIMB
CircularSHAPE
Off-road 90% 10% shares tarmac with cars
Field & moor path 78%Lane & track 12%Road with traffic 10%

Route diagram, drawn from the recorded track — for the shape of the walk, not for navigation. Carry OS Explorer on the hill.

A big 10.1-mile clifftop circuit of about four and a half hours with 210 metres of climbing, going inland from Reighton through Speeton and Buckton to the RSPB reserve at Bempton Cliffs, then back north-west along the England Coast Path above 120 metres of sheer chalk. Start in Reighton village where the old road leaves the A165; the reserve has its own pay-and-display car park and visitor centre if you would rather halve it. Dogs are welcome at Bempton Cliffs, including inside the visitor centre where there are water bowls, but they must be on a short lead at all times on the reserve, and the entire clifftop stretch is unfenced above a vertical drop with gannets and kittiwakes nesting below.

THE SMALL PRINTDogs must be kept on a short lead at all times on the RSPB Bempton Cliffs reserve, including the clifftop viewpoints, because of the nesting seabirds; they are welcome on the reserve footpaths and in the visitor centre, where water bowls are provided. The field paths inland from Reighton and Speeton cross grazed land, so leads are needed there too.

House rules, decoded

Water bowls
Livestock — leads on
REGION · NORTH YORKSHIRE
GRID · 54.1592, -0.2790
SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.KOMOOT.COM/SMARTTOUR/5936580
Also in Reighton
N 880 YD
Walk DOGS WELCOME

Reighton Sands and the clifftop

4.5 MI · 1H 57M · 75% OFF-ROAD

An easy 4.5-mile circular of just under two hours with 90 metres of climbing, out from Reighton village to the sands at Reighton Gap, north along the beach and back on the England Coast Path clifftop past a stone bench with the whole of Filey Bay laid out in front of it. Start in Reighton on the old road off the A165; the 12 bus between Scarborough, Filey and Bridlington stops in the village. Dogs are allowed on this beach all year and the sand is broad and quiet outside the holiday season, but the boulder clay cliffs slip constantly, the path along the top is unfenced, and the tide covers the sand right under the cliffs at the Speeton end.

Off-lead OK
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