🏰 History & heritage
Whitby Abbey
Gothic ruin high on the East Cliff, with 1,300 years of history, a museum in Cholmley House and the view that helped inspire Dracula.
Easy · Circular
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🏰 History & heritage
🏰 History & heritage
🌿 Moors & nature
Easy
Easy
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Falling Foss and May Beck
Easy woodland loop to a waterfall, a tea garden and a hermit's cave.
Distance4.5 km / 2.8 miles
Time1h 30m
GradeEasy
RouteCircular
Follow the path downstream from the car park through Sneaton Forest along May Beck to Falling Foss. The tea garden is right beside the waterfall. Continue a short distance down the beck to the Hermitage, a shelter carved from a single boulder, then return on the forest track above.
- Some muddy sections and a few short steep steps
- Tea garden is outdoors and weather dependent
- Good for young children
Things to see nearby
🏰 History & heritage
🏰 History & heritage
The 199 Steps and St Mary's Church
Whitby's famous stairway from the old town to the church and abbey on the East Cliff.
🌿 Moors & nature
Falling Foss and the Hermitage
Woodland waterfall with a tea garden beside it and a cave hermitage carved from a boulder.
More walks
Easy
Kirkdale, St Gregory's Minster and Hodge Beck
A Saxon church, an Ice Age cave and a wooded valley whose stream vanishes underground.
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.
Easy
Farndale daffodil walk
Riverside stroll through the daffodil reserve to Church Houses and its pub.