Howardian Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

121 Trails 24 POIs 2 Picnic Sites 4 Viewpoints
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Description

The Howardian Hills are an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty located between the Yorkshire Wolds, the North York Moors National Park and the Vale of York, they take their name from the Howard family who still own local lands. The Howardian Hills are the only area of Jurassic limestone in Northern England with AONB designation. Kirkham Gorge on the River Derwent, Yorkshire is a unique glacial overflow channel of great scientific importance. The landscape comprises a complex system of hills and valleys of woodland, arable fields, pasture, fens, hedgerows, stone walls, designed parklands and scattered settlements.

Trails in the Hikepack map

  • Appleton Lane
  • Caulkeys Lane
  • Centenary Way
  • Coleman Way
  • Ebor Way
  • Foss Walk
  • Fryton Lane
  • Grange Lane
  • Middle Way
  • Moor Lane
  • Pickering Bridge
  • Scackleton Lane
  • Sleigh Lane
  • The Backies
  • Whitwell Road

Attractions in the Hikepack map

  • Ampleforth Post Office & Stores
  • Boathouse Cafe
  • Castle Howard
  • Castle Howard Restaurant
  • Caulkleys Bank
  • City of Troy Turf Maze
  • Fitzroy Room
  • Hovingham Hall
  • Hovingham Stores
  • Newburgh House B&B
  • Newburgh Priory
  • Nunnington Hall
  • Spa Tea Room
  • Terrington Village Store
  • The Worsley Arms Hotel

Copyright

The PDF and JPG maps are released by Hikepack under the Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
Contains data ©OpenStreetMap contributors (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) under the Open Database License (https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/). Topographic map based on elevation data from Viewfinderpanoramas.org (Jonathan de Ferranti). Description text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License). Cover image ©LASZLO ILYES https://www.flickr.com/photos/laszlo-photo/3451800711/ CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)