White Rose Way
104 mile exploration of the White Rose county of Yorkshire

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.

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Holiday Packages

All our Standard Itineraries include:

  • Hand-picked accommodation in B&Bs / guest houses / inns / small hotels
  • En-suite facilities where available
  • Breakfast
  • Daily baggage transfers from our own team of local drivers
  • All booking fees

We will also endeavour to include all these in any custom itinerary you wish to build for this walk.

Itin A:   8D / 9N       £1130 pp *

Day 1: Leeds to Harewood (10.8m)
Day 2: Harewood to Wetherby (8.8m)
Day 3: Wetherby to Copmanthorpe (14.2m) taxi to York *
Day 4: Taxi to Copmanthorpe, walk to Kexby (14.2m) *
Day 5: Kexby to Malton (19.4m)
Day 6: Malton to Thornton-le-Dale (10.2m)
Day 7: Thornton-le-Dale to Coughton (20m)
Day 8: Cloughton to Scarborough (6.4m)

£1,435 solo walkers (plus single supplements)
£1,130 per person (based on two sharing)
£1,050 per person (based on group of 3)
£1,010 per person (based on group of 4 or more)

*price includes taxi

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Itin B:   6D / 7N       £905 pp *

Day 1: Leeds to Woodhall (15.5m)
Day 2: Woodhall to Bilbrough (16m), taxi to York
Day 3: Taxi to Bilbrough walk to Kexby (16.5m), taxi to York
Day 4: Taxi to Kexby, walk to Malton (19.4m)
Day 5: Malton to Dalby Forest (17m)
Day 6: Dalby Forest to Scarborough (22.6m)

£1,170 solo walkers (plus single supplements)
£905 per person (based on two sharing)
£840 per person (based on group of 3)
£810 per person (based on group of 4 or more)

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* All headline holiday prices are shown per person, based on two people sharing.

Baggage Transfer

Baggage Transfer is automatically included in the price of all our Walking Holiday packages.

These prices are for anyone planning their own holiday and just need bags moving from one stop to the next.

All itineraries

Price available on enquiry

Max 17kg per bag

Note: If you are booking accommodation in an Airbnb, you must ensure that there will either be someone available to take collection/delivery of your bags or that they have appropriate, secure storage in the event that the proprietor is absent.

Walk Information

Rest Days
Rest days can be incorporated into any walking holiday package at an additional £70.00 per person per night

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.

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