A-Walking: Bridestones Revisited

It has been some time since we last walked in the Stain Dale and Bridestones area. So, this expedition was a source of many good memories of previous walks through this delightful locality.

We set off from Eller Beck Bridge {SE 858 982} (on the A169 road to Pickering) at about 10.50 am. There were 8 people in the group: JB, PB, KF, MS, MuS, GT, JY and PY. PB led the walk.


After crossing the North York Moors railway line, we headed west along the route of the Lyke Wake Walk to reach Simon Howe {SE 830 981}. We now turned left and headed south to Wardle Green {SE 824 962}.

Continuing on our southerly trek we passed through Wethead {SE 812 926} and Newton Banks {SE 814 909} in order to arrive at Farwath {SE 829 883}. From here we had a good climb up through Cross Dale to reach the Fox and Rabbit Farm {SE 845 882}. We now dropped down into Stain Dale {SE 869 903}and followed a north-easterly path to reach the impressive Bridestones area {SE 874 913}. The picture below shows "The Pepperpot" in Low Bride Stones.


Going north through Dove Dale (on the western edge of Dalby Forest), we followed an up-hill path to Needle Point and meandered through the impressive collection of rock formations and then headed north towards Newgate Brow. Now we turned left and followed a good track (Old Wife's Way) in a westerly direction in order to make our way to the car park at the Hole of Horcum {SE 852 936} - where our expedition terminated.

Click the yellow button below in order to see the GPS tracklog of where we went and how we did. Click the cyan button to see some of the photographs that we took.

    

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