M 09 E of Huggate

M 09 East of Huggate: Map and directions

Route M 09 – Hawold Bridle road and Oxlands Dale east of Huggate

This walk is mainly flat on good paths, but more than 6 miles long so it is likely to take a group about 3¼ hours.  In good weather, there are extensive distant views from exposed paths on top of the Wolds before eventually descending into characteristic Wolds valleys.  There are often sheep in one of the valleys. 
Car parking is on a concrete lay-by beside the road from Huggate to Warter (OS Explorer map 294, Market Weighton & Yorkshire Wolds Central, reference SE 877545). 

Walk details

1.    From the car parking place (map reference 877545), walk south (away from Huggate) for 300 metres and turn left at a wooden signpost, through a gate onto a field-edge track (part of Minster Way) with views to the south. Continue for about 2 kilometres to a road. [total 2300 metres] 

2.    (896545)  Cross the road onto a grassy field-edge track for 500m and follow this track to the right beyond a hedgerow and left after a further 200m.  Continue for 1600m, passing a reservoir on the right and 3 large fields on the left, to a wooden sign at a junction with a footpath on the left. [2300m]

3.    (915545)  Turn left onto the footpath and follow it along a field edge, passing a wood on the right, to cross a road at Freshlands Farm onto a tarmac farm road. Continue for a further 600m to where Chalkland Way field edge path (just beyond a hedgerow) crosses the farm road. [1250m] 

4.    (918558)  Turn left and follow the field-edge track (extensive views to the north) for 1700m to a gate to a road near Foxcovert farm. [1700m]  

5.    (902554)  Cross the road (left, right) onto a mud and gravel farm track, then through a band of trees and left alongside woodland to a gate. Go through the gate into Shortlands Dale (Access Land with sheep) and follow the path veering right along the bottom of the valley. Continue through a gate into Oxlands Dale and continue along the bottom of this valley to another gate at a junction of valleys. [total 1450m]

6.    (891560)  Turn left and follow the valley almost to its end (ignoring a narrow waymarked path up the steep side of the valley) then slightly right to a metal gate onto a tarmac track (Wolds Way). Turn left onto the track for 200m then keep left (off the Wolds Way) and continue through Huggate village to a staggered cross-roads near the Wolds Inn. [1700m]

7.    (882550)  Car drivers should cross the main road (right, left) and follow the road signed to Warter for about 650m to the lay-by where cars are parked; passengers may wait at The Wolds Inn. [(total 650m]

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