Walking in the Hambleton Hills

Keven Shevels Kev has been involved with outdoor sports since his school days when participation in the Duke of Edinburgh award revealed the beauties of hill and dale and resulted in him walking or running through the countryside of the North East and beyond for most of the last forty years. Many of these trips into the great outdoors being visits to the heather-clad uplands of the North York Moors, an area for which he has developed a great fondness. Over the last six years, Kev has put pen to paper describing routes through the North Pennines that reveal his passion for both the countryside and the history that has shaped it and the people who live upon it. That, coupled with an in-built curiosity to go and view things that spark his interest, tend to result in routes that take the reader into new, undiscovered areas and reveal a history that may not be apparent from the outside. He is not ashamed to admit that he is one of these boring people who can sit and spend hours reading a map like more normal people read a book. His great delight is coming up with new routes that he can subsequently explore and investigate. All of this has resulted in an easy to read, informative style of guidebook that has proved very popular among the walking fraternity and received very favourable reviews in both local and national press. Now Kev returns to one of his favourite areas, the North York Moors, and in this, the third in a number of books that he is planning on the Moors, he explores that area of upland that frames the south-western edge of the Moors, the Hambleton Hills.

Introduction 1. Introduction 2. Access & the Right to Roam 3. The Walks 4. The Weather 5. The Maps 6. Facilities, Tourist Information Centres & Websites 7. Walk Location Map Walk 1: Scotch Corner and Roulston Scar6.1 miles Battle of Scotch Corner Roulston Scar Hill Fort Walk 2: Byland Abbey and Mount Snever6.1 miles Byland Abbey Walk 3: Boltby Forest7.6 miles Walk 4: The Eastern Dales8.4 miles Walk 5: Hood Hill5.4 miles Walk 6: Arden Great Moor9.5 miles Walk 7: Boltby and Gormire Lake7.1 miles Gormire Lake Walk 8: Studfold and Pry Rigg Plantation6.0 miles Studfold Ring Walk 9: Black Hambleton8.1 miles The Hambleton Drove Road Appendix Ferguson Grading System The Author Walking North East Disclaimer