Yorkshire Wolds Way

6 days walking, based in Malton

Our tour base

The Yorkshire Wolds Way National Trail runs for 79 miles (129kms) through the chalk hills between Hessle Haven at the northern end of the Humber Bridge and Filey Brigg on Yorkshire’s North Sea coast. Formed by the northern extremity of the same band of chalk which forms the white cliffs of Dover and also surfaces in Dorset, Wiltshire, on the Chilterns and on the Berkshire Downs. This makes the Yorkshire Wolds something of an anomaly - a classic southern English landscape set amongst the wild country of the north.

Picture: Britain on View/Rod Edwards

The gently rolling hills and wooded valleys are quiet and secluded, the attractive villages are unspoilt, and the lanes are deserted. The flora and fauna is typical of chalk downland, with an abundance of orchids, wild thyme, song birds in the hedgerows, kestrels overhead and hares and lapwings in the fields.

The route passes through very few settlements of any size but the villages encountered include Brantingham, Thixendale, and the deserted mediaeval village of Wharram Percy.

• Introduction
• The Cornish Coast Path
• Coleridge Way
• Wessex Ridgeway
• Weavers Way
• Pembrokeshire Coast Path
• Brontë Way
• The Pennine Way
• Coast to Coast Walk
• Dales Way
• Yorkshire Wolds Way
• Cumbria Way
• Furness Way
• Hadrians Wall Path
• Reivers' Way
• Rob Roy Way