Walks you can reach from Brough by train

Flat Driffield Canal towpath with two-hundred-year-old relics, dyke and field paths and a village pub at Wansford.

Time: 5h (3h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)

Warnings: Can be muddy after heavy rain. Take care on the road section before Wansford and at the railway crossings.

Walk details: Yorkshire Coast Community Rail Partnership (PDF).

Flat urban canal towpaths and riverside paths along the Sheffield & Tinsley Canal and Five Weirs Walk, past Victoria Quays and the Tinsley locks. An easy waterside start to the trail.

Victoria Quays: A large canal basin in Sheffield constructed 1816-1819 as the terminus of the Sheffield Canal.

The Sheffield & Tinsley Canal: A canal opened in 1819 to link the city with the navigable River Don, famous for featuring in the opening scenes of the film The Full Monty.

Time: 3h30 (2h walking, 1h30 lunch)

Walk details: Penistone Line Trail / Penistone Line Partnership (PDF).

Disused railway trackbed and the Blackburn Valley Trail through ancient Woolley Wood, following the Blackburn Brook past old mill sites into Chapeltown.

Woolley Wood: An ancient woodland continuously wooded since at least 1600, noted for its hornbeam trees and the locally uncommon Hawfinch.

Time: 3h30 (2h walking, 1h30 lunch)

Walk details: Penistone Line Trail / Penistone Line Partnership (PDF).

Recommended: Mainly high along the clifftops of the Yorkshire coast path.

Coastal: nine tenths along the coast.

Time: 8h (6h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)

Lunch: Cafés at tourist hotspots along the way.

Walk details: Railwalks.

Recommended: Great views. Very flat and easy walking: a canal towpath, a good-surfaced path across a former airfield, then open countryside, lanes and tracks and a flood bank and a bridge over the River Aire. Just short stretches of busy and verge-only road. Follows the Trans Pennine Trail across Burn Airfield, which has benches and interpretation boards; you may see gliders taking off and landing.

Time: 5h30 (4h walking, 1h30 lunch)

Warnings: A short stretch of busy road at the start, and a section of roadside walking with no pavement on a straight part of Hirst Road. Snaith has only around three trains a day.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

Recommended: An enjoyable route that is remote in parts.

Time: 7h (5h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)

Warnings: Remote in parts.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

Recommended: An excellent route; very enjoyable. An off-road and peaceful route using byways, the Chesterfield Canal towpath, farm tracks and with some walking through housed areas on safe pavements at either end. The canal section can get hemmed in by bracken and undergrowth; no serious hills. Follows the Chesterfield Canal towpath; passes Babworth Church, linked to the Pilgrim Fathers, with a display board; few benches in the middle third.

Mr Straw's House (National Trust)

Time: 6h (4h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)

Lunch: The Chequers pub at Ranby is the only refreshment option in the middle third and needs a detour off the towpath; stock up at the start otherwise.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

Time: 8h30 (6h30 walking, 1h30 lunch, 30m break)

Walk details: Slow Ways.

Time: 3h30 (2h walking, 1h30 lunch)

Walk details: Slow Ways.

Stunning views. A walk of two parts: a steep, exposed coastal cliff path with narrow paths through scrubby woods, field edges and open paths and then an inland section of wide farm tracks and quiet roads with wide verges. A steep staircase up onto the cliffs and very steep ground up to the trig point and Bempton; probably muddy in winter. The RSPB site at Bempton offers superb seabird watching (gannets, razorbills, puffins, fulmars); bring binoculars. Follows the King Charles III England Coast Path along the cliffs.

Coastal: three fifths along the coast.

Time: 8h (6h walking, 1h30 lunch, 30m break)

Lunch: A tea shop near Bempton village and a pub at a coastal housing development en route.

Warnings: Part of the path up to the trig point and Bempton cliffs is very steep (100%+), with steps kicked into the turf; in very wet or windy weather it may require a scramble. The route is open to the elements.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

Coastal: half along the coast.

Maister House (National Trust; 1h15 in)

Time: 3h (1h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)

Warnings: Half urban.

Walk details: Railwalks.

An urban route with more green space than expected and much of it following a surfaced cycle path. Generally easy going. Follows National Cycle Route 1 for much of the way; bus and rail options at both ends. Easier to follow with a GPX track as the urban setting makes navigation tricky.

Time: 4h (2h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)

Lunch: Plenty of shops along the way in this built-up area.

1 end-of-walk reward: the Old Lamp Room

Walk details: Slow Ways.