Womersley churchyard and Cow Lane

Womersley, the Smeatons and Walden Stubbs

The long round the parish council itself sets out: about seven and a half miles through the farmed country south of Womersley, taking in Northfield Lane and the Blue Lagoon dive lake, Little Smeaton, Kirk Smeaton and Walden Stubbs before returning past St Martin's church. It is flat arable and pasture with field-edge paths, farm tracks and stretches of single-track lane, and it crosses working land, so the Countryside Code rule applies: keep the dog on a lead or in sight, do not let it stray off the line of the path, and lead it around livestock. The parish council warns plainly that it can be a muddy walk, which is fair for anything between October and April here. Two shorter versions start from the Courtyard car park and drop down the side of the churchyard to Cow Lane, one a fifteen-minute village loop and the other an out-and-back on the farm tracks beyond the railway.