THE NORTH YORK MOORS - A Northern Coast to Coast Walk: From St Bees to Robin Hood's Bay - page 110

Go through the road gate, following a paved path alongside a wall that
marks the boundary of medieval Greenhow deer park, and follows an an-
cient packhorse track once much used by smugglers. Initially the track
climbs energetically, through a narrow cleft in a rocky barrier before
reaching a gate, and there gaining access to the open moor of Carr Ridge.
CARR RIDGE, URRA MOOR
From this point the walking is of the easiest kind, with wide-ranging views across a
landscape of constantly changing colours, seen at its vibrant best in late summer and
early autumn, when the heather is in full bloom and the sun and clouds combine to
provide a limitless number of lighting variations to enhance the scene.
This is perhaps the finest stretch in the North York Moors, but potentially the most
lethal in poor visibility. The great moor, badly damaged by fire in the 1930s and still