Route: Goodmanham Circular
Area: East Yorkshire
Date of walk: 21st May 2014
Walkers: Andrew
Distance: 8.5 miles
Weather: sunny and warm
I parked in the free car park in Goodmanham village and walked out of the village along a quiet lane. This soon lead to a crossroads where I had a choice of two long distance paths – the Hudson Way and the Yorkshire Wolds Way. I decided to join the former and do the walk clockwise
The easy path took me along the lovely chalk valley of Goodmanham Dale as far as the old railway station, at which point I joined Kiplingcotes Lane. This involved about 1.5 miles of road walking but it wasn’t an issue – the road is so quiet I only saw a couple of cars
At Arras I joined the Yorkshire Wolds Way, and this superbly maintained and waymarked path took me back to the start
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The village car park
All Hallows Church Goodmanham
The Wolds Way leading out of the village
The Wolds Way follows a quiet lane for half a mile or so
Hawthorm blossom
Cherry blossom
The Hudson Way, which follows the track bed of the old railway from Market Weighton
Typical rolling Wolds countryside
The end of the line for me as I turn off the Hudson Way at Kiplingcotes Station
Walking back under the Hudson Way to join Kiplingcotes Lane
Kiplingcotes Lane
Arras, where I join the Wolds Way again
Heading towards Goodmanham
Nearly back down to the crossroads where I’d joined the Hudson Way earlier
One of the wonderful carved poetry benches which feature along the Wolds Way
A tunnel of hawthorn blossom on the way back to Goodmanham
Back to the start
