The Grey Panthers

Outdoor Leisure Map OL26, - North Yorkshire Moors (West)

This walk mainly utilises field footpaths, some of which cross farmland.
Unfortunately, these field footpaths had not been maintained at the time this route was walked. Because of this there were several problems, - including damaged stiles, hidden crossings, barbed wire fences where there should have been a stile or gate, and so on.
We also found that it was ESSENTIAL to have a 1 : 25K Ordnance Survey map to hand, and this was supplemented by having a Sat Nav to hand.

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!!

Start from the parking area beside the church in Ingleby Greenhow (NZ581062). Note : there is limited space here, - enough for about 4 cars).
Enter the churchyard and take the footpath which crosses the Ingleby Beck by a footbridge, Having crossed the beck, there is a footpath on your left, reached by some steps.
Follow this footpath until you come to the first field boundary. Here turn right and follow the hedge; at the hedge ahead of you, continue with the hedge on your right.
Exit the field to continue on the minor road (Lamb's Lane). At Folly Farm turn right and take the track to Bonnie Hill Farm.
Here there is a footpath that is to the right of the farmyard.
This footpath crosses a hedge line through a gap which is somewhat hidden and which has a broken stile and a small footbridge (also broken).
Continue in a North Westerly direction with the Little broughton Beck on your left.
Cross the beck by a substantial footbridge and continue on the field footpath to Meynell Hall.
Just past the Hall there is a field footpath which heads in a Westerly direction over agricultural land to Great Broughton.
In Great Broughton head North up the main street,
At the cross-roads, turn left and head for Kirkby. About 200 yards along the road there is a field footpath to Kirkby on your left.
In Kirkby, cross over at the cross-roads and head for the church.
The field footpath back to Great broughton is reached by a gate at the South East corner of the churchyard.
In Great broughton continue East to Stanison Farm. At the entrance to the farm there is a footpath which leads you to the disused railway track.
Continue Eastwards on the track. Once over the old viaduct, there is a footpath heading South East towards Red Hall.
Here take the field footpaths to Meynell Hall, and from there take the footpath Eastwards to Marsh Lane.
From Marsh Lane turn right into Lamb's Lane to return to Ingleby Greenhow.