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Distance: | 79 miles |
| Difficulty: | Moderate |
| Way-marking: | National Trail with excellent waymarking |
| Trails: | Very Good
| | Lodging Styles: | English B&Bs and Pubs |
| Best Season: | Spring, summer and fall.
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Highlights:
| Mindless, easy-to-follow walking with lots of green countryside and few people
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The Yorkshire Wolds Way is the least visited National Trail in England. However, if what you like is an easy-to-follow trail, few people and lots of green countryside, this trail is for you.
The trail begins outside the little town of Hessle along the Humber estuary before turning inland. This first section of trail is rather flat, but after a day or so the trail rises and falls with regularity making its way northeast toward the North Sea at Filey.
The word wolds refers to raised dry chalkland used mainly for harvesting wheat and rape seed. Tiny, green dales are plentiful as well as large tracks of farmland. Towns are small and not particularly tourist oriented making lodging sparce. Booking ahead, especially during the peak walking season of summer, is a good idea.
The trail is well-organized and you can obtain an accommodation guide from most larger towns. Way-marking is excellent.
The fact that this route is somewhat low-key may be its biggest draw. It's very non-commercial nature makes the visitor feel as if they've slipped into something secret- like a foreigner coming to the US and walking across parts of the mid-west. And what it lacks in thrills and chills it makes up for in quiet and solitude.
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