Walks near Malton by train

Quiet lanes, field paths, a broad beach walk along Filey Bay, the smart seafront town and Filey Brigg.

Warnings: Check tide times; the sea reaches the cliffs at high tide and covers Filey Brigg. Do not attempt cliff descents to the beach.

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

Out along the Cleveland Way clifftops past Cloughton Wyke and Hayburn Wyke through woodland, back on the old Scarborough to Whitby railway trackbed.

Warnings: Cliffs are unfenced; supervise children. The shared Rail Trail can be busy with cyclists and horse riders.

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

Recommended: A walk with a fair amount of climbing and descending.

Warnings: A fair amount of climbing and descending.

Walk details: Railwalks.

Similar walk: Slow Ways (inc. GPX).

Reverse direction: Yorkshire Coast Community Rail Partnership (PDF).

Recommended: A walk with some climbing, taking the beach to avoid going inland at Hunmanby.

Walk details: Railwalks.

Reverse direction: Yorkshire Coast Community Rail Partnership (PDF).

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

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.

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.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

Recommended: An enjoyable route that is remote in parts.

Warnings: Remote in parts.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

Recommended: A largely step-free, fairly clear route on roads, paths and through a pair of parks, with a brief stretch of industrial ground between them. A field path leads out of Featherstone and the road into central Castleford is quite long.

Warnings: The path runs close beside the M62 for about ten minutes, with heavy traffic noise; you are safely behind a hedge.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

Recommended: Amazing walk especially the section through the forest following the River Nidd. A varied, scenic and remarkably rural route between two towns, with a highlight stretch through Nidd Gorge following the River Nidd through forest. Starts on the tarmacked, surfaced former-railway Greenway, easy walking and then field and woodland paths that can get quite muddy in places at wetter times of year. Passes through Nidd Gorge, a nature reserve mainly owned by the Woodland Trust, on a route via the Nidderdale Greenway (a Sustrans cycle/pedestrian path along a former railway line). Extensive woodland.

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.

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.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

Beautiful.

Time: 2h

Warnings: Not wheelchair-accessible — steps with no ramp alternative; Can be very muddy or boggy.

Walk details: Railwalks.