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View of Oulston Reservoir – Crayke Village and Castle loop from Outwood Academy Easingwold

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Easingwold

View of Oulston Reservoir – Crayke Village and Castle loop from Outwood Academy Easingwold

Moderate

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View of Oulston Reservoir – Crayke Village and Castle loop from Outwood Academy Easingwold

05:00

18.8km

190m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: May 27, 2026

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Howardian Hills National Landscape

Waypoints

Start point

Bus stop

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899 m

Millfields Wood

Forest

5.69 km

Quarry Plantation

Forest

6.35 km

Oulston Village Green

Highlight • Settlement

Very small sleepy hamlet dominated by the village green and mature trees, one of which is encircled by a wooden bench around the base of its trunk - ideal place for a quick pit stop.

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6.87 km

Rapeseed Field in Howardian Hills National Landscape

Highlight • Trail

Walk around the edge!!!

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9.50 km

Gamekeeper's Track Past the Pheasant Pen

Highlight (Segment) • Trail

It's ridable for a gravel or MTB. Then when you exit woods the track ends and it's a footpath and push across fields to reach the reservoir

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10.7 km

The actual access to the reservoir is prohibited (a locked gate), so this is the closest and best you can get to. It's lovely place to stay at - very peaceful. Because it's inaccessible to the public, it also seems wild and serene. A great place to look at.

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14.2 km

Dutch House Garden Kitchen

Highlight • Cafe

There is a plant nursery with a nice café here at Mill House; it's a great place to stop by and relax those weary legs of yours for a few minutes. This is sometimes called Dutch House; after the Dutch horticulturalist Sjaak Kastelijn, who works at the nursery here.

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15.6 km

Crayke Village and Castle

Highlight • Pub

Crayke is a small village with a great vantage point over the Vale Of York. Climbing up here beings great views to the south and it a little taster of the Howardian Hills to the north and east.

Crake has its own castle which is a grade I listed building. It is privately owned and on the site of a Norman Motte and Bailey Castle. It is believed there has been a fortress on this high position since the Roman times.

Crayke Castle is not the only interesting building though, this small village has 28 grade II listed buildings. The local pub, the Durham Ox is 300 years old and is beautiful inside with flagstone floors and ornately carved oak panelling.

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15.9 km

St Cuthbert's Church

Highlight • Religious Site

This church is stunning, and my online research attests to "just needs a bride and groom".

The church dates from around 1490s, and is likely to have been built on the site of a previous Anglo-Saxon church. It was restored in the 19th century. Inside, there are a number of historical wonders: a 15th century font and a 16th century pulpit.

A fantastic place to see, and has that sense of Christendom that I like. "A proper church", if you ask me.

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18.8 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

7.38 km

5.04 km

3.28 km

2.30 km

804 m

Surfaces

8.01 km

4.66 km

3.39 km

1.56 km

1.09 km

Elevation

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View of Oulston Reservoir – Crayke Village and Castle loop from Outwood Academy Easingwold

Oulston Village Green

Rapeseed Field in Howardian Hills National Landscape

Gamekeeper's Track Past the Pheasant Pen