Walks you can reach from Brough by train
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Driffield Circular via Driffield Canal (Yorkshire)
45 minutes direct from Brough.
Flat Driffield Canal towpath with two-hundred-year-old relics, dyke and field paths and a village pub at Wansford.
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).
Sheffield to Meadowhall Interchange (Yorkshire)
1 hour direct from Brough.
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.
Walk details: Penistone Line Trail / Penistone Line Partnership (PDF).
Meadowhall Interchange to Chapeltown (Yorkshire)
1 hour direct from Brough.
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.
Walk details: Penistone Line Trail / Penistone Line Partnership (PDF).
Bempton to Bridlington (Yorkshire)
1 hour direct from Brough.
Selby to Snaith (Yorkshire)
15 minutes direct from Brough.
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: 4h–7h30
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.
Selby to Goole (Yorkshire)
15 minutes direct from Brough.
Worksop to Retford (Nottinghamshire)
1 hour direct from Brough.
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.
Time: 4h30–8h30
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.
Driffield to Bridlington (Yorkshire)
45 minutes direct from Brough.
Hutton Cranswick to Driffield (Yorkshire)
45 minutes direct from Brough.
Filey to Bridlington (Yorkshire)
1 hour direct from Brough.
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: 6h–12h30
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.
Hull Paragon Interchange Circular (Yorkshire)
15 minutes direct from Brough.
Hessle to Cottingham (Yorkshire)
9 minutes direct from Brough.
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: 2h30–5h30
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.