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Route 122, Wednesday 5 January 2005
Huggate, Minster Way
& Wolds Way circuit - 16.5km
Yorkshire Wolds . . . .
Map: OS Explorer 294 Market Weighton and Yorkshire Wolds Central at 1:25000
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Start of the route - turn right opposite the ash tree
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This
morning we drove to map ref. SE 877544 about 0.5km to
the south of Huggate in the Yorkshire Wolds. It was
a cold windy day and rather overcast, but forecast to
improve in the afternoon. We had parked in a lay-by
formed by a large concrete apron, one of several along
this road. Apparently they were part of a WII airfield
that was never completed. We set off in a southerly
direction for a couple of hundred metres and then turned
right off the road onto the Minster Way - one of the
long distance paths crossing the wolds. We continued
along the Minster Way for about 3km to map ref. SE 849540
where is joins the Wolds Way in Nettle Dale. Here we
turned right and took the path along Frendal Dale and
up Tun Dale to the road at map ref. SE 856568. At the
road we turned right again for about 150m and turned
left in the farm road to Wold House Farm. On some grass
beside the farm house is a lifesize bronze statue erected
in recognition of a much valued farm worker on his retirement.
We followed the path through the farm to join the Wolds
Way at map ref. SE 874584. We turned right to follow
the Wolds Way down a steepsided valley called Holm Dale,
for about 1.5km to map ref. SE 884575.
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Here we turned left
off the Wolds Way over a stile along a footpath to map ref. SE 892573.
At this point we turned left onto a public footpath that is not marked
on the OS map yet. I think the path was created as a result of a diversion
to take walkers away from Northfield House. The path took us to map ref.
SE 895569 in Rabbit Dale. We walked along Rabbit Dale and through Cow
Dale to the road at the edge of Huggate. We followed the road for just
over a kilometer through Huggate and back to the car at our starting point.
The whole route had been 16.5km and had taken us about four and a quarter
hours to walk including a short lunch stop. |
Looking over Millington Pasture from the Minster Way
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Highland
Cattle in Millington Pasture
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Highland Cattle in Millington Pasture
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The burnt out stump of a fallen ash tree
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Climbing
out of Tun Dale to the road
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Coarse dry grass covers the valley sides
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Bronze statue to a much valued farm worker,
erected on his retirement
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Remains of a wood pidgeon in Tun Dale
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Starting to drop down into Holm Dale
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