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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25 March 2003  Four
of us met up this morning and drove to Kirk Dale. We parked
at the turning for St. Gregory's Minster, map ref SE 676856,
where you can squeeze a couple of cars onto a piece of land
at the corner. We set off along the road towards Kirkbymoorside
down to the ford across Hodge Beck. The river bed was dry today.
Unless there has been recent heavy rain the river runs underground.
On the left hand side as we climbed up from the river there
is a little cliff in a wooded area and a small cave in the cliff
where geologists have discovered bones of mammoths, lions, hippopotamuses,
elephants, bison, reindeer, tigers and hyenas. It's marked as
Kirkdale Cave on the map and there are often groups of children
there from a local outdoor centre.  We
continued along the road for about 400m from the ford to a cross
roads where we took the footpath opposite across the fields
to Kirkbymoorside. In the town we made our way through the streets
to the mini-roundabout at the top of the village street at turned
up Castlegate. We walked to the end of the street to map ref.
SE 695870 where there is a path heading generally north across
the fields. We followed this path for about 3km into Gillamoor.
It's a pretty village and if you want to detour to the north
eastern end of the village there are lovely views up Farndale
and over towards Hutton-le-Hole. We turned along the road to
Fadmoor, about 1km away. From the village green in Fadmoor (where
there is a good farm shop selling
organic vegetables) we made our way along the road to map ref.
SE 674891 where we took the footpath over the fields for about
800m to a narrow lane. Here we turned right (north) and followed
the lane for 500m to doubleback on ourselves on a path through
the woods which follows Kirk Dale above Hodge Beck for almost
3km to a watermill at map ref. SE 669869. From there we took
the bridleway on the east side of Hodge Beck for 1.5km back
to our start. Just before we reached the car we passed St Gregory’s
Minster. This is a Saxon church with a rare Saxon sundial and
8th century Celtic crosses. The whole route was about 12km and
took us about 4 hours including a couple of very pleasant stops
in the warm sunshine.
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