Grosmont and Egton Bridge
Start and Finish: Grosmont
Approximate time for the walk: 4 and a half hours
Distance: 6 and a half miles
Landscape: Moorland, arable and farm tracks, and forests
Map: O/S Outdoor Leisure 27 North York Moor
Description of the walk:
The walk starts from the car park in Grosmont. From the car park, walk to the level crossing in the centre of Grosmont and go over the railway line and turn right down a path (Sign-posted Loca sheds and Goathland) You then you reach a footbridge over River Mourk Esk. Cross over the footbridge to where the track forks. Go left on the path for Goathland. Carry straight on, passing the church. Go through a kissing gate and immediately turn right on footpath to go past a signpost for Goathland and immediately turn left. Continue straight ahead on this path with the railway line to your left
1. Continue straight ahead onto a row of cottage. Carry on another 600 yards to come to a row of trees. Here you will find a gate and a double way-marked stile on your right. Cross over the stile and turn left to walk towards a telegraph pole. Carry on straight ahead through the bracken to a stile and go into the wood. Carry on this path as you pass through the wood, with River Murk Esk to your to left. When leaving the wood, go over the stile and press on the left edge of the field and carry straight ahead on the path. Carry straight ahead to gain another fingerpost. Continue on the line of the fingerpost to enter a wood by a stile. Cross over the footbridge and immediately right at a signpost for Egton.
2. Continue straight up through the woods. Pass a barn and to the left if Murck Esk cottage continue through the wood. Go through a gate and swing left with the path. Continue along the path for a 200 or 300 hundred yards to meet a signpost. Turn right here on the path, to reach the road. At the road, turn right and walk up the road for 500 yards, passing one footpath sign. Don’t turn up this sign-post. Rather continue to the next footpath sign and turn right up this path through a gate. Continue straight ahead, passing through a gate and press on along this path. This path emerges on the road. Turn right on the road and go up it for a couple of hundred yards to a barn and turn left at the footpath sign. Continue straight ahead on this path
3. Carry straight ahead with the hedgerow on your right. Carry on, passing through a gate and turn left along the wall. Cross over the stile and go rightwards direction in the direction of the wood. Go over a stile and go over into the next field. At the bottom of the field, turn left through a gate and continue with the wall on your right along the field edge. Continue to pass through two wooden gates and turn left down a farm drive to meet a road. At the road, immediately turn right and with a few yards the lane leads to another lane. Pass over the lane junction and go straight ahead on the path opposite. Go through the way marked gate in front and walk down the right-hand wall to enter a wood. Enter the wood and turn left, crossing over a stile and go straight to the top of the bank.
4. Enter the wood and follow the path to emerge at a vehicle track. Follow this track to meet the road in Egton Manor. Turn right along the road and immediately left to pass by the Horseshoe Pub. Carry on the road over the River Esk and just before the church, turn right between tow stone pillars to enter a path to Egton Estates. Follow this path straight ahead with no diversions as it widens its way with River Esk to your right. This path leads to a road just outside Grosmont. When you reach the road, turn right on the road which leads back to the centre of Grosmont. This is where the road finishes and concludes.