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Walk · North Yorkshire

Walden Stubbs to Kirk Smeaton along the Went

Walden Stubbs · DN6 9BU
N 880 YD
2.1MILES
1h 5mON FOOT
25mCLIMB
Linear — plan the returnSHAPE
Off-road 60% 40% shares tarmac with cars
Field & moor path 40%Lane & track 20%Road with traffic 40%

Our drawing of the route — the shape of the walk, not a navigation aid. Carry OS Explorer on the hill.

Starts at
The road junction in Walden Stubbs by Old Hall Farm, DN6 9BU DN6 9BU
Finishes at
Main Street, Kirk Smeaton, by the Shoulder of MuttonLinear — plan how you get back
Parking
Roadside on the verge in Walden Stubbs, free, room for a few cars and no competition for it
Directions to the start →

The westward leg of the round the Womersley parish council sets out, taken on its own: two miles of lane and field-edge path from Walden Stubbs to Kirk Smeaton with the River Went off to the north the whole way. It is flat, arable and slow, with hedges, dyke crossings and long views to the limestone rise at Went Edge, and it finishes in Kirk Smeaton within a few hundred yards of the Brockadale reserve. This is working farmland on rights of way, so the Countryside Code applies: dog on a lead or in sight, kept off the crops, and on a lead around livestock, and a farmer may lawfully shoot a dog chasing stock. Walk it back or arrange a lift; there is no useful bus between the two.

THE SMALL PRINTPublic rights of way across working farmland. Countryside Code: dog on a lead or in sight, not straying from the path, on a lead around livestock.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on
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