Rest Days
Rest days can be incorporated into any walking holiday package.
Solo Travellers
Solo travellers please contact us or use the booking form to send your proposed itinerary including dates, and we will price accordingly. Where possible, we take advantage of existing bookings from other clients to ensure you receive a cost effective service.
Alternative Itineraries
For alternative itineraries to those provided for this route, please contact us, or use the Booking Form to submit your proposed itinerary and number of participants and we will quote accordingly.
Walking Season Dates
Prices are based on the walk starting after 1st April and ending before 30th September.
Walk Information
There are no mountains to conquer, nor even any significant hills. For the most part, the walk is easy going underfoot and relatively flat.
The White Rose Way links sections of existing trails with little used public footpaths to create a new 104 mile walking trail from Leeds City Centre to Scarborough. The walk is similar in many ways to a National Trail.
From ultra modern Leeds City Square, the walk weaves out of the centre via Victorian housing developments and soon enters fingers of connected parkland.
The countryside surrounding Leeds is quickly encountered as the trail passes the outdoor film set of the fictional village of Emmerdale before traversing the grounds of Harewood House and its deer park. The lush Wharfe valley is then followed, through the upmarket village of Linton and on to picturesque Wetherby, with its ancient market and bridge.
Yorkshire stone villages come and go as the walk then reaches Tadcaster with its rich brewing history.
Historic Newton Kyme is passed before the route takes an ancient, countryside Roman Road into the York suburb of Fulford. The agricultural plains that follow lead on to Kexby and Low Catton before the historically important battle site of Stamford Bridge. The walk then turns upstream alongside the River Derwent, entering the Howardian Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, past the ruins of Kirkham Abbey and into Malton. The pretty village of Thornton Le Dale comes next, as the walk enters the North York Moors National Park and into the impossibly beautiful Dalby and Wykeham Forests.
The remote village of Harwood Dale precedes a last push to the Yorkshire coast, where a few bracing cliff-top miles leads to a beach and headland walk into the South Bay at Scarborough and the finish line
OS Explorer Maps
OL27 – North York Moors – Eastern area
289 – Leeds
290 – York
300 – Howardian Hills & Malton
Guide Books
“The White Rose Way” by Paul Brown
Mobile Digital Mapping
Digital maps can be viewed on most modern smartphones using an appropriate app, downloaded from the app store associated with your device. Brigantes recommend that whichever app you use, it should support Ordnance Survey 1:25k or 1:50k scale maps. There are many apps to choose from, but the two main providers are Ordnance Survey and Memory Map.
Each provider’s app has its own benefits, but both provide all-important offline navigation, meaning your device does not need a mobile signal to work effectively on the trail.
