6.0 miles
Outdoor Leisure Map OL27, - North Yorkshire Moors (East)
No map is needed for this walk, though it is always useful
to have a map on hand to check on place names etc.
The walk is very easy, with clear paths and tracks to follow.
The route level for much of the way, with a firm surface.
For a Memory Map overlay of the walk described, please select the above
link.
(Overlay made with Version 5 of Memory Map)
Some new mapping software is now available which you may want to try, - QUO mapping. You can download the software for free from the link below, complete with demonstration maps. Having installed QUO, you can import and export Memory Map overlays. Thus YOU DON'T NEED Memory Map to use any of the overlays provided on the Grey Panthers web site, - just use QUO!!
Park at the long-stay car park, SE799 838.
Head Westwards into the town, maybe visiting the Church of Ss Peter and
Paul on the way.
Make for the railway station along the main street, then cross the road
and head to the Beck Isle Museum.
Just past the museum, take the track that heads North past the Pickering
Beck. Where you come to a field, cross the field (diagonally) to reach
a field gate at the corner.
Continue on the track to New Bridge level crossing.
Cross over the railway tracks then turn left to the crossing itself. Here
take the road on the right, which soon becomes a track.
Continue until you come to a gate that crosses the railway tracks. Just
past this gate is a footbridge over the Pickering Beck.
Follow the footpath to the edge of the woods. Once in the woodland, turn
right and follow the footpath that takes you to New Bridge and the road
into Pickering.
A few yards further along, a footpath returns you to woodland. Follow
this footpath back into Pickering itself.