Coast to Coast Walk Beggars Bridge

Coast to Coast Walk Part 2 Guided Walking Holiday

This is an 110 mile guided walking holiday following Wainwrights Coast to Coast route across North Yorkshire. This tour is a group walking holiday with a guide. You walk from west to east through stunning scenery, crossing the Pennines and Cleveland Hills. Typically you travel to Kirkby Stephen, meet your guide and fellow walkers in the evening, and overnight ready to start your walk the following morning.

From Kirkby Stephen the route enters the Yorkshire Dales national park and crosses the Pennines. At Richmond you leave the Dales and walk across the low lying Vale of Mowbray to Ingleby Cross and the beginning of the North York Moors. From here the trail leads you on a roller coaster ride across the heather covered hills to the North Sea and Robin Hoods Bay.

Each night on the trail you stay in a different village along the route in selected accommodation, with full English breakfast provided. Your luggage is transferred to your next accommodation. The minibus service will also transfer you with your luggage if you want to take a day off from walking. The minibus service is also available to non walking family and friends who would like to see the countryside and villages but prefer not to walk.

The terrain on this trail is a diversity of rocky paths, limestone plateau’s, country lanes, rolling hillsides and farmland. If you are contemplating the Coast to Coast walk and would like to gain a better idea of its landscapes and terrain please click on Coast to Coast photo diary. The wonderful diary was put together by Brian and Gail who walked the route with us in May 2005.

This is a moderate to challenging route with some steep gradients and long days, so before you embark on this walk you must be physically fit, and equipped to meet it.


2010 Hoidays

Tour start dates

  • 28th August 2010 - 6th September 2010

Also available on request from April to October for private group bookings. Please contact us for availability and a price.

To book your holiday please click here.

Duration of tour
10 days (9 nights)

Total distance
110 miles

Price
£675 per person
Prices include

  • Selected accommodation including breakfast.

  • Experienced Coast to Coast walk guide.

  • Luggage transfer between overnight accommodation.

  • Accommodation to accommodation transfer if required.

Grade of walking
This is a moderate to challenging route.

Start of tour
Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria.

End of tour
Robin Hoods Bay, North Yorkshire.

Group size
Maximum 12

Accommodation
Accommodation is provided in selected comfortable B&B’s, Guest Houses, Hotels and Inns. Nearly all rooms are en-suite or have a private bathroom.

Extra nights accommodation
Additional nights accommodation can be booked on request for anyone wishing to arrive in Kirkby Stephen or depart Robin Hoods Bay a day or two earlier/later.

Meals
A full English breakfast is included. Packed lunches can be purchased from your overnight accommodation or from local convenience stores. Evening meals can be purchased in pubs and overnight accommodation when a pub is not available.

Your Guide
Your experienced Guide will provide daily information about the route, and guide the way. Your Guide will provide information about your accommodation and places to eat in the evening, etc. Your Guide is emergency first aid trained.

Luggage transfer
For the duration of the walk your luggage is transferred between overnight accommodation so all you need to carry is a day rucksack and its contents.

Support vehicle
Illness and injury sometimes occur. For this reason we are supported by a daily transport service, which can drive you from accommodation to accommodation if required. This service is provided free of charge.

Travel
For information on travelling to and from the route please click here

Please click here to view the 2010 guided coast to coast part 2 holiday dossier.


Outline Itinerary

Day 1: Kirkby Stephen
Arrive at your accommodation in Kirkby Stephen. Meet your guide and walking companions at the welcome meeting in the evening.


Day 2: Kirkby Stephen to Keld. Distance 13 miles
After leaving Kirkby Stephen we enter the Yorkshire Dales, the path rises steadily to the summit of Nine Standards Rigg 662M. The hill is named after the group of ancient cairns that mark its summit. The path falls gradually before joining up with the river Swale; swift flowing and broken with waterfalls.


Day 3: Keld to Reeth. Distance 11 miles
We are now in Swaledale. In the 18th and 19th Centuries the area was a hive of activity for lead mining, the disused workings are still visible today as we cross the moors.


Day 4: Reeth to Bolton on Swale (Richmond). Distance 17 miles
Early on the walk we pass the Benedictine ruins of Marrick Priory. We cross undulating farmland to Richmond, the biggest town on route. Richmond marks our departure from the Yorkshire Dales. To shorten the following days walk we continue along the banks of the river Swale to Bolton on Swale and then transfer back to Richmond.


Day 5: Bolton on Swale (Richmond) to Ingleby Cross. Distance 17 miles
In the morning we tranfser back to Bolton on Swale. Today’s path is almost level and generally easy going, on a mix of Country lanes and farmland. Bolton-on-Swale has a monument to Henry Jenkins who believe it or not died in 1670 at the age of 169.


Day 6: Ingleby Cross to Clay Bank Top. Distance 13 miles
This is the start of our crossing over the North York Moors. These are the Cleveland Hills, the trail leads you on a roller coaster ride across the heather covered landscape.


Day 7: Clay Bank Top to Blakey Ridge. Distance 9 miles
After an intial sharp ascent to the top of the Moors the path levels and easy walking is found along the route of a dismantled railway line.


Day 8: Blakey Ridge to Grosmont. Distance 15 miles
From Blakey Ridge the path is level before gradually descending to the village of Glaisdale. Just after Glaisdale is the 17th century Beggars Bridge, a good spot for a photo. There is a short woodland walk to Egton Bridge, then the old toll road to Grosmont. Grosmont is home to several steam trains.


Day 9: Grosmont to Robin Hoods Bay. Distance 15 miles
The final day of the trail. A steep walk up the 1 in 3 road and the views to the sea open up. The route continues to follow country lanes, woodland paths and heather clad moors. The route meets the sea and turns right to follow a coastal path to Robin Hoods Bay and a final last descent to the sea.


Day 10: Robin Hoods Bay.
Depart from your accommodation and head for Home