10.4 miles
Explorer Map 302, - "Northallerton & Thirsk"
An all-year walk, suitable for any time of the year.
There are no gradients of any significance at all on the walk,
and navigation is very straightforward.
This is therefore a walk whch can be attempted by anybody, and
requires no special skills or experieince.
It helps to make the walk on a fine day, as the scenery is well
worth seeing in good conditions. Although enjoyable in poor weather
conditions, Jervaulx Park and Jervaulx Abbey are seen at their
best in good weather.
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Start from Thornton Steward village (SE17814 87075)
Leave the village by a signposted footpath, along a farm track, to
the South. THis track passes through two or three gates, before the
footpath is indicated by waymarks.
The footpath heads through fields to Woodhouse Farm, where the path
then turns abuptly South.
Follow the path South of Woodhouse Farm for one field. Continue for
a few yards and then go through a gate on your left to cross arable
fields to Kilgram Bridge.
Cross the River Ure by this bridge, and continue along the road past
Kilgram Grange Farm.
Where the road turns sharp left, there is a farm track immediately
ahead which takes you through Jervaulx Park to Jervaulx Abbey.
Past the Abbey, turn right onto the A6108 road (CARE : traffic) and
walk along for a hundred yards or so until you come to a farm track
on your right, with a footpath sign.
Take this track, and follow the footpath Westwards beside the River
Ure to Cover Bridge.
Cross Cover Bridge, turn right on the road to then cross Ulshaw Bridge.
Immediately over Ulshaw Bridge, take the field footpath beside the
River Ure to Spennithorne. Just outside Spennithorne, the path joins
the road, which you follow into Spennithorne itself.
Retrace your steps to Ulshaw Bridge.
Now take the minor road past the Catholic Church to Danby Low Mill,
and continue almost to Danby Hall.
Where the track bends towards the Hall, now take the footpath across
fields back to Thornton Steward.
Where you see towo footpath waymarks, take the right hand path so
that you go past St. Oswald's Church.