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LEVISHAM AND LOCKTON

Levisham boasts a broad central green surrounded by stout stone cottages and farmhouses. Facilities include the Horseshoe Inn for food, drink and accommodation, as well as Rectory Farm B&B. There is a youth hostel at nearby Lockton across the valley, as well as the Lockton Tea Rooms. The road between the two villages features 1:5 gradients on both sides of the valley.

Houses in Levisham face onto a broad, open green.

WALK 4

Levisham and the Hole of Horcum

Start/finish Horseshoe Inn, Levisham, SE 833 906 Distance 10km (6¼ miles) Total ascent/descent 260m (855ft) Time 4hrs Terrain Valley-side paths cross steep wooded slopes as well as gentler moorland slopes, with easier field paths towards the end; generally easy Maps OS Landranger 94 or 100; OS Explorer OL27 South Refreshments Horseshoe Inn at Levisham, possible café at Saltersgate Transport None, but regular Yorkshire Coastliner buses serve Lockton and Saltergate from Pickering and Whitby, and Levisham Railway Station offers an alternative starting point from the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.

The village of Levisham is reached only after negotiating 1:5 (20%) gradient roads, and anyone going there by car has to leave the same way. Deep, steep-sided valleys flank Levisham Moor, while the Hole of Horcum is a remarkable dalehead that was carved by glacial melt-water at the end of the Ice Age. Most visitors come and go using the main road over Saltergate Bank, but the Hole of Horcum can be reached by using valley-side paths from Levisham. The return to Levisham overlooks part of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.