487 Welton Description and Information | Wolds and E Yorkshire south of A166

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487 Welton Description and Information

Written by the Wanderlust Team

Friday, 30 November 2007

Thistle bee a good walk

Distance: Three and a half miles.

General Location: Humberside.

Start: Welton.

Right of Way: Public.

Map: Drawn from OS Explorer 293 Kingston upon Hull and Beverley.

Dogs: Legal.

Date walked: July 2006.

Road Route: From York: via Selby or Market Weighton.

Car Parking: Roadside.

Lavatories: None.

Refreshments: Pub - The Green Dragon inn, they also do morning coffee and afternoon tea.

Tourist & Public Transport Information: Hull TIC 01482 223559.

Terrain: Wooded dry valley.

Points of interest: Burne-Jones stained glass in church.

Difficulty: Easy.

Please observe the Country Code and park sensibly. While every effort is made to provide accurate information, walkers set out at their own risk.

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Welton is just down the road from Hull but it’s a different world, that’s how it felt as we had our sunshine lunch at the Green Dragon, by the leafy green, old brick, and grand eighteenth and nineteenth century merchants’ houses, an oasis. The Green Dragon is reputedly the place Dick Turpin was arrested in 1759, he’d been stealing horses across the river in Lincolnshire, foolishly shot the landlord’s prize cockerel and ended up swinging from York’s Gallows. According to the village info board Welton has long been a place for ‘trips and picnics’, not that you will need much in the way of calories for this nice little excursion up and down a mostly wooded Wolds dry valley.

A couple of Dutch lads were practising for a walk to Santiago, I asked one why he was wearing an England shirt, he said ‘orange isn’t my colour’ and the shirt was ‘cheap’ – getting cheaper. Children played in the water by the church, we set off up Chapel Hill, a gentle climb just the biz for a fast mending Achilles tendon. Don’t worry about the Wolds Way diversion signs, they don’t apply to this route.

Soon we met, could hardly miss them, a group on a charity walk, bare skin, beer fuelled. A more beautiful sight was the River Humber a mile or two away.

The hard packed earth made for easy progress, the route bypasses a quarry but this was unseen and unheard, horses can make things muddy in the winter. Elder glowed with big blobs of flowers; beyond a heat haze field of peas rose the two towers of the graceful Humber Bridge.

The minder of the charity walkers cycled up, asked had we seen them, they had gone AWOL, ‘beer’ he muttered darkly.

It was turnaround time, a sight across a field of wheat to Wauldby Manor Farm and then back into the woods, lovely with dappled sunshine, beech and ash and sycamore. And then a length on the flat valley bottom of Welton Dale, grass and scrub one flank, trees the other and the typical Wolds detail of bumblebees on thistles. Give thanks to those who fought the landowner for the right to use this path, according to Charlie Emett it was the ‘most bitterly contested’ route in Humberside.

A millpond shimmered, ducks and willows, and the water led into Welton where on the outskirts is a five storey flour mill that shut down in the1960s and had/has a 35foot diameter wheel of a rare ‘ high breast shot’ design.

Afternoon tea at the Green Dragon finished off a very pleasant little walk.

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