Easy
Sutton Bank and Gormire Lake
The finest view in England, then a descent to a hidden glacial lake and a climb back through the woods.
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Photo: Michael Garlick , CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Easy
Easy
Challenging
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Helmsley Brewing Company
Microbrewery and tap room a minute from Helmsley market square, brewing Yorkshire Legend and Striding the Riding.
Helmsley Brewing Company brews in a converted building on Bridge Street and serves its beers in a small tap room with a garden. Tours can be booked, the beers are on in most pubs in town, and it is a natural end to the walk back from Rievaulx.
Walks nearby
Easy
Easy
Helmsley to Rievaulx Abbey
The first stage of the Cleveland Way: woods and meadows from the town to the most beautiful abbey in the north.
Challenging
The Cleveland Way
National Trail in a horseshoe around the moors: 109 miles of escarpment and sea cliff over about nine days.
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Whitby Brewery
Microbrewery in the shadow of the abbey with a tap room, live music and a view over the harbour.
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The Lion Inn, Blakey Ridge
Sixteenth-century pub at 400 metres on the ridge between Rosedale and Farndale, miles from anywhere.
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Fortune's Kippers
Whitby kippers smoked over oak in the same Henrietta Street smokehouse since 1872.