🏰 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.
Easy · Circular
Photo: Bryan Ledgard, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
🏰 History & heritage
🌿 Moors & nature
🍽️ Food & drink
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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
🌿 Moors & nature
Falling Foss and the Hermitage
Woodland waterfall with a tea garden beside it and a cave hermitage carved from a boulder.
🍽️ Food & drink
Fish and chips in Whitby
Whitby claims the best fish and chips in Britain, and the queues on Pier Road suggest it might be right.
More walks
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.
Easy
Farndale daffodil walk
Riverside stroll through the daffodil reserve to Church Houses and its pub.
Easy
Whitby to Sandsend beach walk
Along the West Cliff and three miles of sand to a village cafe, then back on the bus or on foot.