🌿 Moors & nature
Mallyan Spout
The highest waterfall in the National Park, a 20-minute walk from Goathland through a wooded gorge.
Moderate · Circular
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🌿 Moors & nature
🎈 Family days out
🏰 History & heritage
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Levisham Station to Skelton Tower
A steep climb from the station to a ruined folly with the best view of steam trains in Newton Dale.
Distance5 km / 3.1 miles
Time2 hours
GradeModerate
RouteCircular
Cross the line from the platform and follow the path up through the woods onto Levisham Moor, then along the edge to Skelton Tower, built in 1830 by the Reverend Robert Skelton as a retreat. Time it for a train and watch it curve through the gorge below. Return the same way or continue to Levisham village.
- Steep 100-metre climb from the station
- Arrive by train and ask for a day rover
- Toilets at the station but no cafe; bring food
Things to see nearby
🌿 Moors & nature
🎈 Family days out
Goathland Station
The Hogsmeade of the first Harry Potter film, and a Heartbeat location, on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.
🏰 History & heritage
Wheeldale Roman Road
A mile of ancient paved trackway across the moor, long thought Roman, now a pleasing mystery.
More walks
Moderate
Hawnby Hill and Easterside
Two whaleback hills in the quiet western dales with views to the Cleveland Hills and Bilsdale.
Moderate
Byland Abbey and Mount Snever
Abbey ruins, a climb through woods to an observatory folly and a return past the Kilburn White Horse road.
Moderate
Ravenscar to Hayburn Wyke
Cliff path south to a waterfall beach, back along the old railway through woods.