Guide · 8 min read
Walk + pub: days that practically plan themselves
Five Yorkshire pairings where the walk and the welcome are within a mile of each other.
The formula is old and it still works: something with a view in the morning, something with a fire in the afternoon.
In the Dales, Malham gives you the biggest landscape for the least navigation. On the coast, the Bay clifftop path is short enough to leave room for a long lunch.
The rule we hold to: never plan a walk whose finish you would not look forward to in rain.
Places in this guide
Walk & landscape · Yorkshire Dales
Malham Cove
A curved limestone wall 80 metres high, with pavement on the top.
Village inn · North York Moors
The Star Inn at Harome
A thatched Moors inn that put this corner of Yorkshire on the food map.
Heritage & landscape · Yorkshire Dales
Bolton Abbey
Priory ruins, stepping stones and riverside paths for every pace.
Walk & landscape · Leeds & West Yorkshire
Ilkley Moor
The moor of the song, twenty minutes above a spa town.