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Sat 10 Jul 2027

Lyke Wake Challenge

The annual race across the 40-mile Lyke Wake Walk, with the fastest runners finishing in under six hours.

Lyke Wake Challenge
Photo: John M, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Run every July since 1964, the Lyke Wake Race sends runners from the Lyke Wake stone near Osmotherley over the Cleveland Hills, across the high moor and down to Ravenscar. Support crews meet them at the road crossings. Watch at the Lion Inn on Blakey Ridge, roughly half way.

Other events coming up

Back to the 1940s at Eden Camp
10–11 Oct 2026

Back to the 1940s at Eden Camp

Wartime weekend with re-enactors, vehicles and 1940s music at the prisoner-of-war camp museum

📍 Eden Camp, Malton

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