Let's Walk The Yorkshire Coast Guidebook

author: Stephen Robinson
Yorkshire's dramatic coastline embraces some of the UK's most beautiful and unspoilt countryside, comprising picturesque fishing villages, rocky cliffs, wooded valleys, and sheltered bays with golden sandy beaches, all offering a memorable experience for walkers. This excellent guide provides superb full colour maps with numbered arrow pointers to identify the current position along the route. There are route directions with grid references beside each map to aid navigation, plus background information for each of the ten circular walks. The routes explore the stunning coastal scenery of the North Yorkshire and Cleveland Heritage Coast, plus taking you to some of the beautiful villages further inland.

The Yorkshire coast has an intriguing history. Between 1700 and 1850 many of the picturesque fishing villages like Staithes and Robin Hood's Bay were notorious as smuggling ports. Captain Cook, the British navigator and explorer, began his seafaring career at Whitby, and Whitby Abbey provided the setting for Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. During the Civil War, Scarborough Castle endured two sieges, and in the opening months of World War 1, German battleships shelled the castle from the bay.

Yorkshire's dramatic coastline, widely known as the Dinosaur Coast, is world famous for its geology and fossil resources. The shoreline is continually changing due to the instability of the sea cliffs and fossils are prolific in the exposed rocks. Discoveries of ammonites are commonplace, although the remains of more substantial land and marine reptiles do turn up occasionally. However, if you want to confront the dinosaurs more personally, visit the Rotunda Museum, the home of Scarborough's Lost Dinosaurs'. The exhibition comprises fossilised evidence of dinosaurs, which roamed around the neighbourhood during the Jurassic period.

The Walk locations are:
Warsett Hill and Saltburn Gill - 8 miles
Boulby Cliffs and Easington Woods - 6 miles
Staithes and Port Mulgrave - 7 miles
Kettleness and Goldsborough - 7.5 miles
Mulgrave Castle and Lythe - 7.5 miles
Whitby and East Row - 7.5 miles
The Larpool Viaduct and Whitby Abbey - 8 miles
Maw Wyke Hole and Robin Hood's Bay - 7.75 miles
Ravenscar and Robin Hood's Bay - 8.75 miles
Hayburn Wyke and Crook Ness - 7 miles

ISBN 9781898550150 Pages 64 (2019) 144mm x 210mm