WALK ROUTES
JULY Walk - Market Weighton,
East Yorkshire Wolds
Organised by Ian Elwess
Sunday July 8th 2018
Explorer map 294 Market Weighton
All walks circular from Market Weighton.
Toilets across from where bus drops off and start of walk.
Short- 7.5 mile, Colin Denton
Leaving Market Weighton to follow the Wolds Way.
Passing through Towthorpe Grange and onto Londsborough Park. Turning left to visit Londesborough village. Then turning back into Londesborough Park to follow the Wolds Way onto village of Goodmanham and onto disused railway following Hudson Way back to Market Weighton.
Medium walk - 11 miles - Ian Elwess
As short walk, but after village of Londesborough it crosses farmland passing village of Nunburnholme.
Then head back across country to Goodmanham and back as short walk.
Long walk - 14.5 mile - Dave Fothergill
Follows same route as medium walk, but from Nunburnholme it follows the Wilberfoss Way to
Kilnwick Percy Hill and then back to Nunburnholme and back to Market Weighton same way as medium walk.
Further information:
Market Weighton
Once the location of Britain's largest sheep market, is the quaint rural town of Market Weighton.
It is also the birthplace of William Bradley, Britain's
tallest recorded man measuring
7 feet 9 inches (2.36 m)
An annual festival is organised
in memory of William Bradley
in his home town of
Market Weighton. The event
has been held annually in May
since 1996 and is attended by
hundreds of people in the town.
It is a family-oriented event
with games, amusement rides,
stalls and other attractions,
including the famous
"Weighton Lash".
The town's unique Kiplingcotes Derby, held on the 3rd Thursday of March, also remains Britain's oldest and 'oddest' flat race, and an unmissable spectacle.
