 Reproduced from North York Moors Eastern Area Explorer® 1:25 000 by permission of Ordnance Survey® on behalf of The Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. ©Crown copyright 2005. All rights reserved. Licence number 100047589 Directions When in doubt look at the map. Check your position at each point. Keep straight on unless otherwise directed.
01.
North through village, left at 'Well House' site, left to track at Church. Right to road downhill (verge), left to road (signed Lastingham).
02.
Bridge, gate on right (signed), 150 yards by fence, fieldgate, diagonally left 50 yards, stile/fieldgate, 1 o'clock, stile. Right to dead-end road.
03.
Cattlegrid/fieldgate to moor and right-hand track. Left before farmyard (fingerpost) to path by fields then through heather.
04.
About 400 yards after second moorland birch tree and 60 after 'stone slab' on path, small cairn on right to narrow path (GR SE 746922) to angle down to river confluence. Stepping stones, path, 3 stiles.
Alternate route avoiding stepping stones: Keep on main path, after walled fields 250 yards small pile stones (GR 745935) cut back right and down on narrow path, ladderstile (waymark), 11 o’clock, footbridge, 5 yards, gate, 10 yards, gap in hedge, by house, track up 50 yards, stile (waymark), hedge gap (waymark), gate.
Both routes: Right to road, bridge, 100 yards.
05.
Track on left (signed).
06.
House parking area, 50 yards, fork right to track, 50 yards, barrier, track.
07.
At 's' bend, narrow path on right at 1 o'clock, steep (waymarked post GR 759935), wall remnants after 100 yards. Left 10 yards on track, right to continue on path (waymarked post propped against tree).
08.
Right to track (GR 764 935 arrow), 100 yards, left fork.
09.
At junction by stone shed/tinsheet structure, second right, pass play area, tarmac, barrier.
10.
Right at T-junction, 100 yards on tarmac, path on left (arrow), left to track, 5 yards, path on right (arrow) to footbridge, left, 200 yards uphill via left-hand bend.
11.
Right at paths junction (arrows other way), 200 yards, cross track to continue path, left to main track, 100 yards, ‘track’ on right downhill through felled area, cross made track, bungalow in view across field, felled area to right, grassy path/track downhill with tiny stream to right then on it.
12.
Cross made track to made track downhill for 100 yards, fieldgate on right into yard, pass house, fieldgate on left, footbridge, cross turnaround area to path uphill (waymarked post), 50 yards, left 10 yards (waymarked post), right (waymarked post), join path (waymarked post), stile into field, fenced path, swings right, stile/fieldgate, stay on track. Gate, right to road (verge) into Cropton.
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