Walk · North Yorkshire

Whitcliffe Scar and Willance's Leap

Richmond · DL10 4SG

6.8MILES

3h 45mON FOOT

300mCLIMB

CircularSHAPE

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

Off-road 85% 15% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 50%Lane & track 35%Road with traffic 15%

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.

Starts at

DL10 4SG

Directions to the start →

Just under seven miles and about three and three quarter hours, out of Richmond by Hurgill Road and Whitcliffe Wood to the top of the scar, where three stones mark the spot a horse went over the edge in 1606 and its rider survived; the woodland track is firm and the scar-top pasture is soft going. Start from the roadside parking at Aislabeck Plantation on Hurgill Road, or walk up from Richmond market place and add a mile each way. This is a walk to keep a dog firmly on the lead for, and not only because the pasture is grazed - the scar drops two hundred feet sheer for most of a mile with no fence between path and edge at any point; there is water in the wood but none along the top, and the field crossings are a mixture of gates and stone stiles, two of which are narrow enough to stop a big dog.

THE SMALL PRINTLeads throughout - grazed pasture along the whole scar top, and a two-hundred-foot unfenced cliff edge for the best part of a mile.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on

REGION · NORTH YORKSHIRE

GRID · 54.4085, -1.7580

SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.COUNTRYHIDEAWAYS.CO.UK/CIRCULAR-WALK-FROM-RICHMOND-TO-FIND-WILLANCES-LEAP/

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