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HighlightsGlebe Cottage Tea Rooms at Kildale;Captain Cooks Monument, RoseberryTopping; Gisborough Priory; SkeltonViaduct and the delightful Saltburn by theSea.

A bed for the nightThere are two pubs and a B&B offeringaccommodation in Guisborough as wellas the impressive Gisborough Hall.Nearest camping is available nearSlapewath at the Margrove Park Caravanand Camping site. Details ofaccommodation providers can be foundon the Cleveland Way website atwww.nationaltrail.co.uk/clevelandway

Food and drinkYou can call in at Glebe Cottage Tea Roomsat Kildale before setting out on your walk.The Kings Head Hotel lies north ofRoseberry Topping if you want to headthere for refreshments. Guisborough itselfhas plenty of cafes, pubs and shops torestock. There is a pub (the Fox andHounds) at Slapewath, then cafes, shopsand pubs at both Skelton and Saltburn.

Catching trainsTrains run daily to Kildale fromMiddlesbrough and Whitby and toSaltburn from Middlesbrough. Checknationalrail.co.uk for details or ring 0845748 49 50. If you are breaking your journeyat Guisborough you can get a bus back to

Middlesbrough and again a train fromMiddlesbrough to Saltburn. For bus detailscheck Traveline onwww.yorkshiretravel.net or phone0871 200 22 33

Following the trailFrom Kildale Station head out of the carpark and along the road into Kildale. Turnleft at the Glebe Cottage Tea Rooms andyou are on the Cleveland Way, which isclearly signed. Remember the route atRoseberry Topping is a spur – you headout to the top and return by the same pathbefore heading east towards GuisboroughWoods

Moors and Coast 16.6 miles (26.7km)

A two day walk, or two separate day walks, along thenorthern escarpment of the North York Moors to the coastat Saltburn-by-the-Sea

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Leave the Cleveland Way at Highcliff Nabto drop down to Guisborough. On reachingthe prominent Nab, head around its basebefore dropping off on the steep path.This becomes a clear path signed as TeesLink down into Guisborough. On reachingthe housing turn right on Ilkley Grove, lefton Arden Close and then right (onAldenham Road though it is not signed atthis point).Turn left on Enfield Chase, near theSainsburys Local, then later right to followthe surfaced path signed for GuisboroughTown Centre. Cross the main road atSainsburys and follow the path alongsidethe brook leading into the centre.To rejoin the Cleveland Way on Day 2 headeast up the main street to the Market Crosswith Nat West Bank opposite. Turn righthere down the road and straight across atthe traffic lights heading alongBelmangate. This eventually becomes atrack and path. Keep heading straight up,avoiding any side tracks. At the top youreach the Cleveland Way again and followthis through to Saltburn.As the Cleveland Way takes you intoSaltburn join Albion Terrace and thenStation Street to reach the station.

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Kildale Roseberry Topping Guisborough Rock Hole Quarry Saltburn

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Highcliff Nab

Day 1 Kildale to Guisborough - 8.6 miles (13.8km)

Overnight stay Guisborough

Day 2 Guisborough to Saltburn - 8 miles (12.9km)

Train travel Both Both Kildale and Saltburn can bereached by train. There are regular buses betweenMiddlesbrough and Guisborough

Terrain Moorland and forest walking through toGuisborough, including an ascent of RoseberryTopping. Beyond Guisborough is a less strenuousmix of forest, fields and woodland walking.

Guisborough

GreatAyton

RoseberryTopping

Kildale

Saltburn-by-the-Sea

Skelton

Marske-by-the-Sea

GisboroughMoor

HighcliffeNab

EasbyMoor

Brotton

Great AytonMoor

Captain Cook’sMonument

RoseberryTopping

Glebe CottageTearooms

Kildale to Saltburn 1 Cleveland WayNATIONAL TRAIL

KildaleHome to the excellent Glebe CottageTea Rooms – right on the ClevelandWay. Walkers are positively welcomedat this establishment.

Great Ayton MoorThis archaeologically rich area washome to our Bronze Age ancestors4000 years ago. The retreat to lowerground happened from 500BC whenthe climate worsened and the thinupland soils could no longer sustainfarming activity.

Roseberry ToppingThe Yorkshire Matterhornis the closest there is to amountain on the ClevelandWay. Legend states that babyPrince Oswy was taken thereby his mother to escape anomen of drowning on acertain day, only to die facedown in a hillside spring.

Captain Cooks MonumentStanding high on Easby Hill is a51ft high obelisk erected in 1827in memory of one of the world’sgreatest cicumnavigators, CaptainJames Cook RN. Cook was born inMarton near Middlesbrough andmoved to Great Ayton when hewas eight. His early years werespent at Aireyholme Farm on theslopes of Roseberry Topping.

Rock HoleQuarry

Highcliff Nab

GisboroughPriory

Kildale to Saltburn 2 Cleveland WayNATIONAL TRAIL

Highcliff NabThe Nab offers extensive views acrossGuisborough and the north. This wasan ideal site for a camp during thestone age and archaeological digs herehave revealed flints used for scrapingmeat and for piercing objects.

GuisboroughThe wide cobbled main street ofGuisborough is a hive of activityon its three market days...Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.Nearby Gisborough Priory (EnglishHeritage) was founded in 1119following the Norman Conquest.When money was required torebuild the church, in 1309and 1311, the Priory soldindulgences... paymentsmade to save the souland thereby spendless time in Purgatory.

Rock Hole QuarryIt can be claimed thatthe world’s firstchemical industry wasstarted right here atRock Hole Quarry backin 1604. Here there wasthe first successfulproduction of Alum,which was mainlyused to fix dye. Alumproduction spreadacross the North East,especially on the coastwhere it dominatedthe industrial land-scape for the next 250years.

The ruins ofGisborough Priory

SkeltonViaduct

Skelton Beck

Saltburn

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Kildale to Saltburn 3 Cleveland WayNATIONAL TRAIL

Skelton BeckThe valley is one of several which drainthe north eastern edges of the NorthYork Moors and the Eston Hills. Cutrapidly through the newly depositedglacial boulder clay at the end of theGreat Ice Age some 10,000 year ago,the steep sided valleys have escapedthe farming and buildingdevelopments that have crowded themore accessible slopes.

SaltburnVictorian Saltburn developed from oneman's dream. Whilst walking along thecoast, Henry Pease had a vision of tallsplendid buildings rising from theclifftop. He immediately establishedthe Saltburn Improvement Companyand advertised for designs for thetown. Plots were allocated for villas forwealthy visitors, hotels for the middleclasses and areas for cheap boardinghouses for workers. There weredoctors, reading rooms, a convalescenthome, water, drains, gas and roads butno premises selling alcohol; Pease wasa socially conscious man. One of themost impressive buildings is the formerZetland Hotel, now apartments, whicheven had its own private railwayplatform.

Skelton ViaductThe huge railway viaduct underwhich the Cleveland Way passescarried the line from Whitby toSaltburn and on to Middlesbrough.Opened originally to transportironstone from nearby mines theline was later used to providepassenger services. 783 feet long and150 feet high with eleven archesthis dramatic brick built structurehas been in place for well over 100years.