National Trail Guides UK
NATIONAL TRAIL GUIDES Footpath Guides :: Wolds Way :: Day 4
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THE WOLDS WAY ENDS AT FILEY
NATIONAL TRAILS GUIDES UK - DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS & GALLERIESDay 4 :: In the Rain:: Sherburne to Filey :: 17 miles
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Cottages at Ganton Barn at Anton where Wolds Way leaves road
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Stile at foot of Cotton Dale Cotton WoldRunning became easier when I reached a small dale on Flixton Wold which I easily ran down and not so easily ran up. I crossed down and up Lang Dale. This was an attractive small dale, filled, to my left, with tall white cow parsley blooms and was spectacular to behold even in this weather. At the top of the dale I came to a minor road, which I turned right upon and after a short run I turned left along another path, which was strewn with warnings not to leave the path and “beware of the bull” signs. This landowner did not appreciate trespassers!
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Staxton Wold Lang DaleAfter crossing a stile I was directed to the edge of a field running at the top of Raven Dale. I could hardly glimpse the dale from the footpath and wondered if that was fair, bearing in mind the new Freedom to Roam Bill, for which I eagerly anticipated Royal Assent.
I now approached Camp Dale and Folkton Wold. I passed around the top of Camp Dale and along the edge of Folkton Wold and eventually proceeded steeply downhill to The Camp, which was inhabited by a large herd of cows and bullocks, most of which seemed to be standing in my path. The bullocks and calves were young and I was aware that even cows can become aggressive where they think their calves may be in danger. I pressed ahead, walking rather than running, along the field side and to the stile at the bottom and onto a horse jumping field.
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Small dale running into Lang Dale Camp DaleI then crossed a stile into Stocking Dale. I had not expected such an awesome and splendid view as this. The dale was alive with buttercups, daisies and other meadow flowers, which festooned the dale floor in such a thick carpet as to give the appearance of having been painted onto a canvass. This was so along its entire length as far as I could see. The dale was broad, long and flat and the sides rising up from it rose gently and not very high, and were covered in low growing shrubbery, mostly hawthorn.
I ran along this meadow, beneath the woodland to my right until emerging from the woods and passing another small dale between Folkton Wold and Deedless Hill. I then ran along a rut in a track alongside a field of yellow flowering rape seed which hung over the path so that as I ran I brushed against the yellow petals. The rain made them stick to my clothing so that my entire right side was dappled yellow. I eventually reached a bend which took me to my right with a narrow plantation of trees parallel to me on my left, whilst the field of rape continued on my right.
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Stocking Dale Head of Stocking DaleAs I approached Stockingdale Farm signs of habitation appeared. The hedgerow to my right was lined with old rusted and wrecked cars that had been partly grown over. It looked ugly.
I encountered and crossed a minor road and ran through fields downhill for some considerable distance until reaching Muston. I had no desire to run along main roads or through towns and as this was now the route the Wolds Way followed I had arranged to meet Tanya here to be driven to the Coble Landing at Filey to complete the route along North Cliff to the end of the Wolds Way at a stile which also marks the beginning of the Cleveland Way.
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Filey and Filey Brigg Filey