Walking in the Cleveland Hills

Kev Shevels 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 were visits to the heather-clad uplands of the North York Moors, an area for which he has developed a great fondness. Over the last twelve years, Kev has put pen to paper describing routes through the North East 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 fourth in a number of books that he is planning on the Moors, he explores that area of upland that frames the north-western edge of the Moors, the Cleveland Hills.

Contents
Introduction
1. Introduction
2. Access & the Right to Roam
3. The Walks
4. The Weather
5. The Maps
6. Walk Location Map

Walk 1: The Bridestones and Bilsdale7.8 miles
Walk 2: Commondale Moor5.8 miles
Wayworth Moor Stone Circle
The Bride Stones
Hob on the Hill
Walk 3: Guisborough Woods10.3 miles
Cleveland Ironstone
Walk 4: Scugdale and Whorl Hill5.2 miles
Whorlton Old Church
Whorlton Castle
Walk 5: Baysdale Abbey and Armouth Wath9.4 miles
Baysdale Head Colliery
Walk 6: Great Ayton Moor and Codhill Heights8.1 miles
Great Ayton Moor Chambered Cairn
Walk 7: Ingleby Incline and the Thurkilsti7.3 miles
Rosedale Railway
Walk 8: Quaker’s Causeway and Commondale7.8 miles
Quakers’ Causeway
Walk 9: Cold Moor and the Garfit Gap4.6 miles
The Garfit Gap

Appendix
Ferguson Grading System
The Author
Walking North East
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