Cleveland
Way ...
Walking Holiday - May 2004
The
Cleveland way was opened in May 1969 as one of the national trails of
Britain (it was the second one established after the Pennine Way). It
stretches for approx. 106 miles along the edge of the North York Moors
and the North Yorkshire Coast, there are a couple of extra deviations
that you could take which will put the distance up to about 110 miles.
The scenery encompasses farming landscapes and forests, some unchanged
for many years, dramatic rolling country with abrupt scarps and
sandstone edges some with limestone capping, bleak moorlands, dramatic
cliff and beach seaside scenery. All this is punctuated at intervals
with interesting market and fishing towns steeped in history and
literary association.
The walk must not be underestimated there is a lot
of ascent and descent, traverses over high moorland and some steep
climbing.
Highlights of the Cleveland
Way include, the remains of the Norman Rievalaulx Abbey, and Whitby
Abbey, the Captain Cook Monument, and Robin Hoods Bay with it's
cliff-hanging cottages.
Click
Here for more details of the The Clevelend Way Route
Here
is the proposed route
