FYI - Westow Cricket Club sell bacon/sausage sandwiches on a Sunday morning at £3 each, cake/bakes at £1.70, buttered scones at £1.50 and tea and coffee at £1 per mug.
Payment by cash or card (no minimum spend)
Plenty of seating outside and we can eat our own food as long as we take away our rubbish and do not put it in their bins as the volunteers take the rubbish home to put in their own household bins.
The Cricket Club is situated to the west of the village
SHORT
CIRCULAR WALK
EXTRA SHORT WALK 5.3 MILES
Kirkham to Westow via Firby Hall. (Cricket Club in Westow may be selling bacon butties). then back to Kirkham along Dark Lane. Visit to Kirkham Priory should be included on the return to Stone Trough Inn.
SHORT WALK 8.0 MILES
Kirkham to Westow via Dark Lane (butties at Cricket Club?). Through Howsham Wood, Possible lunch stop at Howsham Mill - built around 1755 and now generating hydro-electricity from the water wheel and first Archimedes screw turbine installed in UK. Then onto Kirkham Priory (Augustinian Priory used in preparation for D-Day landings during WWII) via Riders Lane
Walk Leader
John Kelsey
John Robinson
Keith King
MEDIUM
CIRCULAR WALK
From Stone Trough Inn turn right up Centenary Way. Past Firby Hall and on to Jeffry Bog Plantation, Church Farm and on to village of Westow.. (The Cricket Club may be serving bacon butties). Now on to Barger Bank, thro' Howsham Wood to Howsham Village. Hosham Mill might make a good lunch stop. It is thenacross Howsham Bridge to join Riders Lane (Alternative route back to Kirkham is along river bank, but the pathis narrow and nettle, thistle an bramble mean it requires concentration). The suggested route winds through Oak Cliff Wood to Crambe then to Onhams Lane and back to the start with a stop to visit Kirkham Priory.
Walk Leader
David Crichton
LONG
LINEAR WALK
Long walkers leave the coach at Malton toilet stop, cross the Derwent and turn right along Centenary Way. (please note sections along here are overgrown with nettles and thistles so leg protection is recommended)
Leave Centenary Way and turn left up Church Lane, following the medium walk until Howsham Village.. Through the village then turning left then right head towards Scrayingham, down to the Derwentand back to Howshan Bridge. Follow the medium walk (either route) to Kirkham.
Walk Leader
David Fothergill