Walk · North Yorkshire

Staveley Nature Reserve

Staveley · HG5 9LQ

3MILES

1h 13mON FOOT

10mCLIMB

CircularSHAPE

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

Off-road 95% 5% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 30%Lane & track 65%Road with traffic 5%

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.

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HG5 9LQ

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A flat three-mile hour-and-a-quarter circuit of the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust's 79-hectare wetland reserve, built on old gravel workings, with barely 10 metres of height change and a network of surfaced paths that take a buggy or a wheelchair and stay usable in midwinter. The car park on Minskip Road takes a dozen cars, with disabled parking off Main Street through a radar-key gate by the church, and the reserve sits ten minutes from the A1(M) south-west of Boroughbridge. Highland cattle and Hebridean sheep graze here all year, so dogs must be on a lead on every path, and they are not allowed in the largest hide; the lagoons draw bitterns and marsh harriers, so keep the noise down.

THE SMALL PRINTDogs on leads on all paths because Highland cattle and Hebridean sheep graze the reserve year round, and dogs are not permitted in the largest bird hide.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on

REGION · NORTH YORKSHIRE

GRID · 54.0730, -1.4360

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

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