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Adventure Week 28
  • Week 1 - Adventure Racing
  • Week 2 - Serious Surfing
  • Week 3 - Orienteering
  • Week 4 - Sailing
  • Week 5 - Dixons Hollow Sklls Course
  • Week 6 - Traditional Climbing
  • Week 7 - How Stern Gorge
  • Week 8 - Power Kiting
  • Week 9 - Swale Charity Paddle
  • Week 10 - Walk the Cleveland Way National Trail
  • Week 11 - Try Gliding at Sutton Bank
  • Week 12 - Try Windsurfing
  • Week 13 - 5 Day Tou of the Dales
  • Week 14 - Go Geocaching
  • Week 15 - Scotton 100 Cycle Event
  • Week 16 - Sea Kayaking
  • Week 17 - Three Peaks Fell Race
  • Week 18 - Fishing
  • Week 19 - Trekking Centre
  • Week 20 - Etape du Dale Cyclospotive
  • Week 21 - Gaping Gill - Open week
  • Week 22 - Settle Loop
  • Week 23 - Go Ape at Dalby Forest
  • Week 24 - Ballooning
  • Week 25 - Dalby Forest Walk and Play
  • Week 26 - York to Selby Cycle Route
  • Week 27 - Try Paragliding
  • Week 28 - Thixendale Round
  • Week 29 - Ryedale Rumble Cyclosportive
  • Week 30 - Go down a showcave
  • Week 31 - Lancaster to York Cycle Ride
  • Week 32 - Wasburn Paddle
  • Week 33 - Guided Caving Trip
  • Week 34 - Malham Trailquest
  • Week 35 - Cotter Force
  • Week 36 - Moors to Sea Cycle Tour
  • Week 37 - Boots and Beer Walking Fesival
  • Week 38 - Climbing the Big Three
  • Week 39 - 3 Peaks Cyclocross
  • Week 40 - Husky Trekking
  • Week 41 - Saltergate Fell Run
  • Week 42 - Multi day horse ride at the North York Moors National Park
  • Week 43 - Whitby to Scarborough Cycle Route
  • Week 44 - Caving
  • Week 45 - Bike Trials
  • Week 46 - Tramper Route to Old Gang
  • Week 47 - Guided Walks
  • Week 48 - Mountain Biking at Dalby Forest
  • Week 49 - Open Access Walk
  • Week 50 - Bouldering
  • Week 51 - Try Surfing
  • Week 52 - Ingleton Climbing Wall
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Thixendale Round

Thixendale Round

Get your walking boots on and head off into the great outdoors

Week 28  On Foot

Walking at your leisureLevel of Fitness
Blue.  A relatively flat and straightforward 8 mile (13.1km) walk

The Experience
It's time to get your walking boots on.  Here is a great introduction to walking on the Yorkshire Wolds - the Thixendale Round.  This Yorkshire Wolds Way circular walk is about 8 miles long (13.1km) and takes in some superb Wolds scenery.
 
Journey through an intriguing landscape of dry chalkland valleys, across green meadowlands linked by quiet country lanes with many wildlife discoveries to be made.

The route starts in Thixendale - One of the Yorkshire Wolds' most charming villages, tucked away at a point where six major dales converge. On closer inspection it can be seen that as many as sixteen dales radiate out from the village, which may explain the origin of its name. So remote is Thixendale that we believe it was probably the last place in England to have TV reception, which happened only in the mid 1990s!

Quite how these valleys became dry is open to interpretation, but is likely to be linked to the gradual recession of the 'scarp face' of the Wolds and a consequent dropping of the water table leaving the valleys dry.

You also pass through Kirkby Underdale - This is a totally unspoilt estate village owned by Lord Halifax of Garrowby Hall. Here, at the Old Rectory in 1834, Bishop Thirwall wrote his monumental history of Greece, and it's hard to imagine a more pleasant place to work. You can explore the picturesque Norman church with the aid of the pamphlet found inside.

Waymarked routesHave a go
July can be a beautiful month and the wild flowers are at their height.  The Wolds is an area which stays quiet even when other better known spots get extremely busy.

You can download a leaflet of the walk, including a map of the route.

 

Find out more
Find out more about national trails or download a Try a Trail guide.