About the Author
Paddy Dillon is a prolific walker and guidebook writer, with over 90 guidebooks to his name and contributions to 40 other titles. He has written extensively for many different outdoor publications and has appeared on radio and television.
Paddy uses a tablet computer to write his route descriptions while walking. His descriptions are therefore precise, having been written at the very point at which the reader uses them.
Paddy is an indefatigable long-distance walker who has walked all of Britain’s National Trails and several major European trails. He lives on the fringes of the Lake District and has walked, and written about walking, in every county throughout the British Isles. He has led guided walks and walked throughout Europe, as well as in Nepal, Tibet, Korea, Africa and the Rocky Mountains of Canada and the US. Paddy is a member of the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild and President of the Backpackers Club.
Other Cicerone guides by the author
Glyndwr’s Way
Mountain Walking in Mallorca
The Cleveland Way and the Yorkshire Wolds Way
The GR20 Corsica
The GR5 Trail
The Great Glen Way
The Irish Coast to Coast Walk
The Mountains of Ireland
The National Trails
The North York Moors
The Pennine Way
The Reivers Way
The South West Coast Path
The Teesdale Way
The Wales Coast Path
Trekking in Greenland
Trekking in Mallorca
Trekking in the Alps
Walking and Trekking in Iceland
Walking in County Durham
Walking on Madeira
Walking in Menorca
Walking in Sardinia
Walking in the Isles of Scilly
Walking in the North Pennines
Walking on Arran
Walking on Gran Canaria
Walking on Guernsey
Walking on Jersey
Walking on La Gomera and El Hierro
Walking on La Palma
Walking on Lanzarote and Fuerteventura
Walking on Malta
Walking on Tenerife
Walking the Galloway Hills
THE NORTH YORK MOORS
50 WALKS IN THE NATIONAL PARK
by Paddy Dillon
JUNIPER HOUSE, MURLEY MOSS,
OXENHOLME ROAD, KENDAL, CUMBRIA LA9 7RL
© Paddy Dillon 2019
Second edition 2019
ISBN 9781783627387
First edition 2005
Reprinted 2008, 2011 and 2015 (with updates)
ISBN 9781852844486
ISBN 0902363875
Printed by KHL Printing, Singapore
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
All photographs are by the author unless otherwise stated.
Updates to this Guide
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Front cover: Looking across Bilsdale from high on Rievaulx Moor (Walk 8)
CONTENTS
Getting to the North York Moors
Getting around the North York Moors
Walk 1 West Ayton, Hackness and the Forge Valley
Walk 2 Hackness, Broxa and Whisper Dales