frank'sYORKSHIRE WALKS
My Walking Diary
These Diary pages are just a few notes and pictures of the routes I walk. I hope that they give you some ideas for walks of your own and if you need more details of a particular route you can use the route request form to contact me
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19 February
2003 
This
morning four of us met in the village of Bishop Wilton on the
edge of the Yorkshire Wolds at about 10 o'clock. The bishop part
of the name refers to the site of the Archbiship of York's palace
that was here many centuries ago before the a palace was built
in York.We set off down the village street and at the edge of
the village we turned left onto a path following Bishop Wilton
Beck downstream for about 2km. here we turned away from the beck
to follow a path across the fields to Meltonby. At Meltonby we
walked along the road foe about half a kilometre back towards
Bishop Wilton.
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We
left the road on a sharp left hand bend to climb up the escarpment
of the wolds to the road leading into Great Givendale. The church
there is in a very pretty setting with a series of small lakes
maintained for wildlife and the bank above the church covered
with snowdrops and yellow aconites - a real breath of spring in
the sunshine. We passed a large evergreen oak tree in the village
- not a common sight at all in this part of the world. We left
the village following the Minster Way along the edge of the wolds
escarpment with lovely views over towards York. We passed Bishop
Wilton below us at the foot of the wolds and about 2km beyond
Bishop Wilton we came to the maim road (A166) at the top of Garrowby
Hill. We crossed the main road anf continued down a permissive
path along a track to Kirby Underdale.
We took the path west from the village to join the road towards
Bugthorpe and after about 1km on the road turned left on to a
path passed Longhower Plantation and continued across the fields
to Barf Lane. We walked along the lane to the main road (A166)
and crossed to join a path on the other side which led us over
the fields to the Minster Way about 1km before it reaches Youlthorpe.
From here we followed the Minster Way back into Bishop Wilton.
The whole route was about 18km and took us six hours to walk including
a couple of refeshment stops. It's quite a long walk and could
easily be split into two nice strolls based on Bishop Wilton doing
either the loop to the south or the loop to the north. 
