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WALKS AROUND MARKINGTON
Six Local Walks of between two and five miles using
public footpaths, bridleways and minor roads.
All walks start and end at the Village Institute.
Important note to all walkers:-
These walks cross agricultural fields containing cattle, sheep and food crops.
Please follow the country code and close gates behind you
Please keep your dogs on a lead at all times
Please clean up after your dog. There is a bin in the Institute car park
MAP (Not to Scale)
Walk One
Waterloo Farm and Westerns Lane.
(Two Miles)
Lane near Yorkshire Riding Centre.
Facing north, cross the bridge and take a clockwise route around the cricket field towards the northern corner. Cross the corner of the football field to a well used waymarked path with a hedge on the left, then a small gate to an open field to Waterloo Farm. Immediately after the farm turn left onto a footpath between a house and a fence. Follow the path to a tarmac bridleway. At the bridleway turn left past Ingerthorpe Hall on the right up to the Yorkshire Riding Centre (The path can be muddy here). Carry on through the centre and along the centre drive to the end at Westerns Lane. Turn left towards Markington and just before the bridge take the footpath to the left, through a kissing gate and back onto the cricket field. Turn right to return to the bridge at the Institute.
Walk Two
Wallerthwaite and Markington Crossing.
(Three and a Half Miles)
Wallertwaite
Facing south turn right out of the car park, passing the school on you left take the first road left (Kingwood Lane) and straight ahead onto a bridleway passing Kingwood house on your left. After 250 yards take the stile on your left marked ‘Wallerthwaite’ through a narrow enclosed path with the caravan site on your left (can be overgrown with nettles) through a gate and into an open field. Be aware that at certain times of the year there can be young cattle in this field. Progress up the hill with the hedge on your left and over a stile. Continue with a hedge on you right to the end of this field, dog leg straight ahead across an open field towards Wallerthwiate and onto the Wormald Green road. Turn right and after 100 yards turn right again down toward Wallerthwaite Farm passing the farm house on your right over a stile (can be a little overgrown here) and down to a pond. Keep the pond on your right and over a stile at its far end. Turn left passed an ancient ruined wall on your left to another stile down a large field keeping the hedge on the right. Follow a stream to the left to a crossing point where the stream narrows (no bridge). After crossing the stream the stream the path crosses open fields (not waymarked) on rising ground. The path direction can be followed by heading towards distant pylons crossing fields in a southerly direction for half a mile to a footpath waymarked at a junction with a bridleway. Turn right and follow this back to Markington at Kingwood lane.cing south turn right out of the car park, passing the school on you left take the first road left (Kingwood Lane) and straight ahead onto a bridleway passing Kingwood house on your left. After 250 yards take the stile on your left marked ‘Wallerthwaite’ through a narrow enclosed path with the caravan site on your left (can be overgrown with nettles) through a gate and into an open field. Be aware that at certain times of the year there can be young cattle in this field. Progress up the hill with the hedge on your left and over a stile. Continue with a hedge on you right to the end of this field, dog leg straight ahead across an open field towards Wallerthwiate and onto the Wormald Green road. Turn right and after 100 yards turn right again down toward Wallerthwaite Farm passing the farm house on your right over a stile (can be a little overgrown here) and down to a pond. Keep the pond on your right and over a stile at its far end. Turn left passed an ancient ruined wall on your left to another stile down a large field keeping the hedge on the right. Follow a stream to the left to a crossing point where the stream narrows (no bridge). After crossing the stream, the path crosses open fields (not waymarked) on rising ground. The path direction can be followed by heading towards distant pylons crossing fields in a southerly direction for half a mile to a footpath waymarked at a junction with a bridleway. Turn right and follow this back to Markington at Kingwood lane.
Walk Three
Hinks Hall, Cayton and Hob Green
Three Miles.
(With the option to walk to Ripley).
Hincks Hall Farm
Facing south turn right out of the car park, passing the school on your left take the first road left (Kingwood Lane) then at Kingwood House turn right onto Hinks Hall Lane which turns left and passes to the rear of houses and becomes a bridleway. Hinks Hall Farm is a quarter of a mile on, passing through the farm turn right through a metal gate with a clear track across two fields, then follow the boundry of the next field with the hedge on the right to a gate on to a long grass strip, straight ahead towards the farmhouse at Cayton. Aproximately 100 yards befor the farm buildings turn sharp right onto a bridleway and head for two large trees.
(NOTE to walk to Ripley carry straight ahead through Cayton Farm buildings. More information to follow).
Otherwise after turning right follow the bridleway with the hedge on your right, carry on through woods to the Bishop Thornton / Markington road. Turn right towards Markington, passed Hob Green and at a left hand bend take a stile on the right into a field, cross two fields to a white gate in a farmyard and back into Markington at Brook House Farm.
Walk Four
Horse Mill Lane and Strait Lane
Four Miles
Ingerthorpe Hall
Facing south turn left out of the car park towards Wormald Green, passing the Post Office on you left. After the last house on your left s gate leads into a field, follow the path with the hedge on your right, after the first field there is a gate between two hedges on your left, take this and follow the path between the hedges. (can be somewhat overgrown). The path drops to a stile on the left at the edge of a wood, follow down to the road then at the road turn right and continue for fifty yards to a narrow path on the right this rises through a wooded slope to a stile. After the stile keep left down the edge of two fields to a gate to the stream, crossing the stream keep right between fence and stream to a double stile. follow the path with the hedge on your right to a new stile then keep left with two more stiles and onto Horse Mill Lane. Turn left and follow this bridleway fo threequarters of a mile to the crossing at five lanes end. Cross the road and take the tarmac bridleway opposite, bare left at the junction with a farm road and follow to some cottages on the right, immediately before the cottages cross a stone stile in a wall on your right (footpath not waymarked at this section). Continue accross the field with Ingerthorp Hall on your left to a double gate. pass farm buildings on your right and follow the field edge to a gate and a few further yards to a field gate on the right and onto a wide farm track. Keep left and follow for two hundred yards to a stile on the right into a plantationn. Head for the northern quarter, cross another stile onto Striat Lane bridleway. Turn right, the bridleway leads between banks and hedge (Markenfield Hall may be seen to the left) back to the road at Ingerthorpe. Take the road to the right and then the footpath passing Waterloo Farm returning to the village.
Walk Five.
Hob Green, Haddockstones and Western Lane
3.5 Miles
Haddockstones Grange
Facing south turn right out of the car park, passing Westerns Lane on the right and Brook House Farm on the left, immediately after the farm look for a white metal gate at the side of a bridleway near the farm buildings. Go through the gate and cross the farmyard to a stile and follow across a second field to another stile in the hedge, turn left passing Hob Green, the road drops downhill to a bridleway crossing at the bottom. Take the bridleway on your right and follow this for several hundred yards over a small bridge and through a gate. The ground rises to Haddockstones Grange and a metal gate. Continue ahead keeping the hedges on your left through several gates, the last field has a wood on your right, aim for the bungalow and gate to the road. Turn right onto the road and continue for around five hundred yards to a gate on the right into a field (not waymarked). Keep the hedge on your right and follow the edge of the wood to a stile onto Westerns Lane, follow this back to the village. The walk may be extended by taking a left off Westerns Lane through the Yorkshire Riding Center just past Ingerthorpe look out for a waysign on the right, a footpath takes you through a wooded area bringing you out at Waterloo take the footpath passing Waterloo Farm returning to the village.
Walk Six.
Ingerthorpe, Strait Lane, Whitcliffe Lane and Markenfield Hall
(with optional walk to Ripon)
Five Miles
Whitcliffe Lane near Morcar Grange
Facing north, cross the bridge and take a clockwise route around the cricket field towards the northern corner. Cross the corner of the football field to a well used waymarked path with a hedge on the left, then a small gate to an open field to Waterloo Farm. Continue along the road to Five Lanes End with Horse Mill Lane to the right and Strait Lane to the left, take this. (Note there are two bridleways to the left, Strait Lane is the second). This is a grass track that narrows between high hedges, follow this for half a mile to a gate at the top of an open field. Keep to field edge through a number of gates and fields towards Morcar Grange, and onto Whitcliffe Lane. Turn right, the road becomes a track and rises to a junction of bridleways. (NOTE If you wish to walk to Ripon the left bridleway will take you to the western outskirts housing estate). Otherwise turn sharp right towards Bland Close through a gate at a cattle grid and follow the right hand edge of the field on the bridleway (Markenfild Hall can be seen to your right). At the stream take the footpath on the right and follow this path across fields to the Hall, passing close to the moat and then between farm buildings onto a track / driveway. Take the footpath at a large gate ahead and follow this to a stile that rejoins Strait Lane, turn left to return to Five Lanes End and return to the Village.
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