Walkington To Hessle

by Craig Farr
3 years ago
Near Walkington, GB

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• Join Church Walk and High Hunsley Circuit opposite the Ferguson Fawcitt pub.
• Follow this until it takes a left and continue following the High Hunsley Circuit.
• You will quickly arrive at a T-junction. Take the right path and continue on the High Hunsley Circuit.
• Once past Walkington Plantation, you will arrive at another junction. Keep on the High Hunsley Circuit by following this around to the right.
• The path will take you around some buildings/farm to your right and then you will approach another T-junction. Take the left and join Park Lane. (1 mile)
• Continue on this path all of the way until Dunflat Road. Take the left and follow the road towards Risby until you reach a wooded area on your left. The path to rejoin the High Hunsley Circuit will be in your right. Take this. (2 miles)
• Follow the High Hunsley Circuit to Skidby. Join Little Weighton Road and follow this to the left until you reach Riplingham Road on your right and follow this for 2 miles. (3 miles)
• On the approach to Socken Wood, the path to rejoin the High Hunsley Circuit will emerge on your left. Follow this again. (5 miles)
• You approach another road also called Riplingham Road. Take a left and then sharply on your right will be the path to continue on the High Hunsley Circuit.
• Follow this, passing through a farm, and head towards Waudby. (6 miles)
• Take a left at Waudby Dam and then an immediate right, and now follow the path of the Yorkshire Wolds Way. (7 miles)
• A wooded area will be on your right hand side and you will walk towards a woods in front of you. There will be another T-junction on which you should veer right. Walk briefly on this track before turning left and heading through the woods. This remains the path of the Yorkshire Wolds Way.
• You will pass a body of water on your left, and Dale Cottage, before joining Dale Road on the approach to Welton. (8 miles)
• At the first junction, turn left and then a left again to join Chapel Hill.
• Walk along Chapel Hill and into some woods. Walk up to Bow Walk and take the right. This will differ from the Yorkshire Wolds Way path (although this can also be taken if you wish). (9 miles)
• When you reach the road of Melton Bottom, take a right and then a then a left to rejoin the Yorkshire Wolds Way.
• Continue along here, crossing roads and motorway via footbridges. You will walk through Long Plantation and the village of North Ferriby will be on your left hand side (11 miles).
• You will emerge on the banks of the Humber, and you follow this all of the way back to Hessle.