With Helen and Anastasia. The few available parking spaces by the Runswick Bay Hotel were looking full up but happily just as we were thinking that someone finished their dog walk and drove away. We followed Hinderwell Lane to Hinderwell, left along a cornercutting footpath as we reached the main road. Almost at once left again down Brown’s Terrace then right on a track, round a corner then left on another track downhill to a footbridge with a flight of steps on the other side. Lovely walking through the woods brought us to the Fox and Hounds pub in Dalehouse on the southern end of Staithes. Disagreeably right along the main road here but not for very long and soon we turned left to take a path past Cowbar Farm and under an old bridge to a road which we followed south into Staithes. Staithes is very pretty. The young James Cook lived here for a while. We stopped in the Cod and Lobster for a coffee. Then up the hill and onto the Cleveland Way which we followed all the way back apart from a little detour to bag the trig point on Hinderwell Beacon. A seven mile walk out of Paddy Dillon’s excellent Cicerone guide to the North York Moors. Then we went to Whitby to see the sunset from by the Abbey and grab some fish and chips from Mr Chips. Then home.
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