H 09 Terrington, north to Hollin Hill

Route H 09 - North from Terrington to Hollin Hill

This walk covers just over 5 miles of undulating farmland and woodland with good views on a fine day. It shares some paths with route H 08. The paths are quite firm and should not be muddy, except in 2 short stretches.

Park in Terrington Village, near the Church, OS Explorer map 300 (Howardian Hills and Malton) grid reference SE672707. Park alongside the wall on the road leading to the church (or if this is full, park nearby – preferably in a side road, but there are usually spaces between cars parked in the main village street)

Walk directions (clockwise)

1.   From Church Lane (map ref. 671707) follow the road where it turns left opposite the Church for 300m to a cross-roads. Turn right and follow this road to where it becomes a farm drive. [950m] 

The above is a change from the original route, requested by Cotril Farm during the coronavirus epidemic. The original route is as follows. From Church Lane, walk uphill past the Church and continue on a path between 2 walls to school playing fields. Cross a gravel area and straight on along a terraced path to steps down to a farm field and continue to a field junction. Turn left past Cotril Farm for 350m and turn right. [950m]

2.   (668714) Continue past a lake and the entrance to Rose Cottage Farm then continue on a path between the farm and a tennis court to a gate on the right. [700m]

3.  (668721) Go through the gate and follow a field edge path over the brow of a hill, through a gate and downhill to a gate and footbridge. [800m]

4.   (674724) Cross the bridge, turn left and follow the stream for 350m and right at the corner of a field uphill to a gate on the left. Go through the gate and diagonally right, uphill across a field to the right of a farmhouse to meet a solid track. [650m]

5.    (676728) Turn left onto the track, turning right through the farmyard and folow a farm track down to a valley, over a bridge between 2 small lakes to where the track turns right. At this point continue straight on through a gateway and look for a bridleway waymark into the wood on the left. [600m]

6.  (678734) Turn left onto the woodland bridleway (may be muddy) for almost 200m then (at a waymarked footpath/bridleway junction) turn right on the bridleway uphill through different woodland areas to where it meets a more solid track where the trees end. [700m]

7.   (676738) Turn right onto the track and continue to where the track crosses the end of a road on the left and a track on the right. [900m]

8.   (685736) Turn right and follow the firm track past High Baxtenhowe and Low Baxtenhowe farms to a T-junction with another solid track at the top of a ridge at the edge of a wood. [1700m]

Note that a bridleway on the right through a wood from a valley between the two farms, although marked on maps, is overgrown.

9.    (683721) Turn right onto the track alongside the wood until it bends right and meets another track (Ebor Way). Turn sharp left onto Ebor Way for 250m to a field edge path on the right. [800m]

10.   (680720) Turn right onto the path and after a short distance go through a gate and downhill to a valley where the path turns left then right across a narrow footbridge or a wider crossing a few metres further to a gate. Go through the gate and follow a field edge path through 2 large fields separated by a gate. At the far end, the path turns right along another field edge to some steps. [1500m]

11.    (672709) Go up the steps onto a tarmac path alongside a wall (playing fields on the right). Where the wall turns left, turn left across a gravel area and around a gate into a path between 2 walls that comes out into Church Lane. [250m]

Walk directions (anticlockwise)

1.       From Church Lane (map ref. 671707), walk uphill past the Church and continue on a path between 2 walls to school playing fields. Cross a gravel area and turn right at the end of a wall on the right and continue to steps where the tarmac path turns left. [250m]

11.      (672709) Go down the steps, continue along the right-hand edge of the field to a field boundary then turn left (beyond the boundary) and continue through gates to a stream crossing. Cross the stram and turn left then right uphill to a gate then along the left-hand edge of a field to meet a solid track. [1500m]

10.      (680720) Turn left onto the solid track to the brow of a hill and turn sharp right onto another solid track. Follow this track for 550m to the junction with a solid bridleway track to Baxtenhowe farms. [800m]

9.       (683721) Turn left onto the track that passes Low Baxtenhowe farm and High Baxtenhowe farm to the point where the track becomes a tarmac public road. [1700m]

8.      (685736) Turn left (past a barrier to vehicles) and follow a woodland track for 900m to the point where another path crosses at a wooden sign. [900m]

7.     (676738) Turn left on a woodland bridleway for 500m almost to the end of the wood. At this point follow the bridleway where it turns left and continue on this woodland track (may be muddy) until it emerges from the wood. [700m]

6.     (678734) On emerging from the wood, turn right and through a gateway onto a solid track that passes between small lakes then uphill to Howthorpe Farm. Go through the farmyard and turn left onto a track that leaves the farm and runs beside an unfenced field on the right. [600m]

5.     (676728) Turn right across the grass field diagonally to the bottom left corner. Go through a gate and turn right to the bottom of a field then left alongside a stream to a waymarked footbridge and path junction on the right. [650m]

4.     (674724) Turn right over the bridge and continue uphill on a field edge path, through a gate near to the highest point then to the right of another gate to a gate near to Rose Cottage Farm. [800m]

3.     (668721) Go through the gate and turn left onto a path that runs between the farm and a tennis court and continue where the path becomes a track and then a public tarmac road. [700m]

2.     (668714) Continue uphill on the road to a cross-roads on the edge of Terington village. Turn left along a village road that bends right at the Church where the walk started. [950m].

Alternative route step 2 (requested not to use during coronavirus epidemic): turn left on a path past Cotril Farm for 350m, then right across a field to steps up to playing fields. Go up the steps and continue past playing fields to a gravel area and then into a path between 2 walls that leads to Church Lane. [950m]