Yorkshire Wolds Way - 2011
Seventy nine miles is the length of this National Trail making it one of the shortest and thus very suitable for our Away Weekend. The Yorkshire Wolds Way is a journey from the Humber estuary to the Cleveland coast at Filey passing through typical downland scenery with its rolling chalk hills, woodlands and dry valleys. We found that the frequent distinctive National Trail acorn waymarks made route finding exceptionally easy (ie we hardly ever got lost). In addition there were occasional acorn sculptures every few miles in the early stages of the Way giving exact mileages from the start and to the finish. A series of sculptural ‘Spring’ benches made of steamed oak was another unusual feature. Curving up from the ground to mimic a stream springing from a chalky down they were also inscribed with poetry – ‘We shed them one by one’ started one prophetically! Sadly there rarely seemed time to use them as intended.