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Route No 117
Saturday
11 December 2004
Helmsley, Ash Dale circuit -11km
North York Moors . . .
Map: OS Explorer OL26 North York Moors Western area at 1:25000
Ordnance Survey route
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Stone flag path beside the stream at map ref. SE 609840
In the bottom of the valley we turned right to follow the muddy track
along the valley bottom for about 2.5km to map ref. SE 612847. Here
we took the path to the right off the track and followed the path across
the fields to the road at map ref. SE 615844, and followed the road
for about 500m back into Helmsley. The whole route had been about11km
and took us about 3 hours to walk including our drinks stop. This left
us time to have a look around Helmsley including the fitted kitchen
shop which my wife seems to be taking a particular interest in.
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Another grey misty day, but we were determined to have a short walk
anyway, so we drove to Helmsley and parked near the market square. It
was already quite busy as we set off walking at about 9.45am. We walked
past the parish church and a few hundred metres along the Stokesley road
(B1257) and turned off to our right on a little stone flag path beside
the stream at map ref. SE 609840. We followed the stone track along the
valley bottom for over 3km through Collier Hag Wood. The whole valley
is heavily managed for the rearing and shooting of pheasants. At map ref.
SE 595870 the path turns up the valley side. There is an old bulldozer
abandoned by the track here. It seems to have been used to build a new
stone track along the valley. The whole path was eroded and new gravel
banks laid down by a huge deluge following a thunder storm one summer
about 8 years ago. At the abandoned bulldozer we followed the track up
the hill for a couple of hundred metres and then turned left onto a path
through the trees. At map ref. SE 593877 we spotted two handy tree stumps
that made the perfect place to stop for a drink and a snack. The weather
was still grey and misty but it was quite pleasant sitting in the woods
listening to the stillness all round. After our break we turned right
to follow the path across the fields to the road at map ref. SE 598875.
We walked along the road for about 200m and turned left onto a track across
a field in to Ash Dale. |
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Footbridge in the mist
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Hazel catkins out in December
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Misty woodland
at the start of our route
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After the shoot
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Abandoned bulldozer
in Collier Hag Wood
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More misty
woodland
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Our lunch stop
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Misty path
down Ash Dale
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Helmsley Parish
Church
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Path through Collier Hagg Wood
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Left: Fresh
deer track in Ash Dale
Below: Ponies
in a paddock in Helmsley
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