THE VALE OF MOWBRAY - A Northern Coast to Coast Walk: From St Bees to Robin Hood's Bay - page 139

Distance 11km (6.9 miles)

Height Gain 55m (180 feet)

The linking of Danby Wiske with Bolton-on-Swale makes the most of some excellent
field-edge paths that are infinitely superior to the alternative - a long and boring road
bash. But, if time is of the essence, then the road route is given in Appendix A.

For Map see pages 128-9

On reaching Danby Wiske, go left at the White Swan, down Mounstrall
Lane for about 600m, finally leaving the road at a gate on the right (sign-
posted) to follow a field-edge path. On the way, the route passes Danby
Wiske's beautiful Norman church (page 132), which is without dedication,
and well worth a brief diversion.
Walk up the field edge until you can bear left along a hedgerow towards
woodland. Soon, you enter a long and quite delightful stretch of enclosed
trackway, seasonally overgrown, but a lovely sheltered interlude. It ends
at a gate giving into a gently sloping pasture. Walk down the right-hand
edge of the pasture, and at the bottom continue into the next.
Lower down, the route goes left with the field boundary to a step-stile
beside a gate. Cross this, and walk up the left-hand edge of a large field,
eventually reaching the access track serving High Brockholme Farm. Walk
out along the access to meet a surfaced lane.
Turn right, walking along the lane for about 400m, and leaving it oppos-
ite the entrance to another farm (Green Garth, but shown as Brockholme
on the map). Now follow a field-edge path to a hedge gap, and through
this walk around the end of a field to a stile giving onto a concrete slab
bridge. Cross the next two fields, often cropped over, and eventually deal
with a couple of stiles either side of a sleeper bridge just before Moor
House Farm. Head for a stile just before a gate. Go through the gate and
around the farm perimeter to reach another gate. Through this, go left to
a track junction, and left again past Red House Farm, and walk out along
a broad track to reach the B6271.
Without touching upon the B road, turn immediately right onto a sign-
posted path that follows a field edge, and maintains much the same direc-
tion across lovely countryside to walk up to the ruins of Stanhowe Cottage.
Keep on past the cottage, always at the field edge (either right or left),
and eventually you reach a field corner where an old gate gap gives onto