C 08 Appleton-le-Moors, map and directions

Route C 08 Appleton-le-Moors to Hutton-le-Hole and Spaunton

The walk (~5 miles) is mainly on firm but sometimes muddy tracks and some field edges. It is a circular walk from Appleton-le-Moors to Hutton-le-Hole, returning via Spaunton.

Start from the church at the north end of Appleton-le-Moors village (4½ miles NW of Pickering; Explorer map OL26 North York Moors Western, grid reference 735881). Park on the wide main street of the village.

Walk directions

1.       (Map reference 734881) Take the bridleway track opposite the church and continue to a crossing of tracks. [1000m]

2.       (724878) Cross the track and continue for 500m then follow the track round to the right around the edge of a quarry and continue northwards for 400m to a grass area by a small barn (Lingmoor Barn). [1150m]

3.       (719882) Cross this area (diagonally left) and through a gate into a wood. Follow the path inside the edge of the wood, initially north then turning to the west. Cross another path then continue to a track T-junction. [850m]

4.       (7148860) Turn right onto the track (Bottomfields Lane) for 600m and turn left for a further 400m alongside fields to a bend to the right. [1000m]

5.       (709893) Follow the stony track down to Hutton-le-Hole village. [600m]

To visit the village, continue in the same direction into the village centre. Return almost to the same place and turn left not right.

6.       (706897) Without entering the village, turn right onto a footpath beside a stream. Follow the path steeply uphill with views over the village then through a new plantation to a track running east just below the top of a slope. [350m]

7.       (709898) Turn left onto the field edge track and follow it for 950m to a T-junction. Approaching Spaunton, the track turns left and then right and passes through a farmyard that may be muddy. Continue through Grange Farm to a road. [1500m]

8.       (722899) Turn right and do not take the road where it turns left into Spaunton village but continue southwards onto a bridleway track (Spauntons Lane) for 1200m. [1350m]

9.       (723886) Just before a track junction on the right, turn left onto a footpath across fields, left and shortly right after 550m (and past ancient hedgerow remains). Continue for 450m to the road from Lastingham to Appleton. [1050m]

10.    (734886) Turn right and walk along the road to Appleton-le-Moors Church. [600m]