10.2 miles
Explorer Map 299 - Ripon & Boroughbridge
A walk which provides some outsanding views and plenty of interest
as regards historic buildings.
The walk is suitable for any time of the year, though there are
some wet and muddy patches in the winter time.
There are no navigational difficulties, and no gradients of any
special difficulty.
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above link.
(Overlay made with Version 5 of Memory
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Start from the small car park outside the parish church
in Kilburn (SE51349 79618).
Head Southwards down the road through Kilburn until you come to Trencar
Lane, opposite Chapel Farm.
Head down the lane, - can be muddy, in a Westerly direction and continue
on the footpath to Common Lane.
Turn left in Common Lane and when you come to Mill Dike Lane turn
left again. Shortly afterwards turn right and walk down Croft Lane
to Carlton Husthwaite.
Walk down the main street in Carlton Husthwaite, then turn right down
Ings Lane. Follow Ings Lane all the way into Husthwaite.
Opposite the church in Husthwaite, take the road Southwards until
just past a row of cottages (with Bank Cottage on your left) there
is a signposted footpath heading uphill in an Eastwards direction.
Now follow this footpath and then the Easterly footpath past Lists
House and along Beacon Banks.
The footpath meets a farm track just above High Leys Farm. Turn left,
and almost opposite the farm buildings is a footpath on your left
which takes you to Coxwold.
In Coxwold, Turn left up the main street and continue past Shandy
Hall.
On your right is a clearly signposted footpath which takes you to
the lane that leads past Fox Folly Farm,
Head up the lane past Fox Folly Farm, and where there is a sharp bend
in the road continue ahead on the footpath to High Kilburn and then
Kilburn.