Ingleby Moor & Greenhow Bank
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There is an exhilarating feeling on this fine 8-mile (with 1103ft of ascent)
BLACK
route across open, sweeping and remote North Yorkshire moorland. The walk
recalls the heyday of the 19th-Century iron-mining boom and makes use both of an
old coach road and a disused railway line. The views are superby throughout.
There are only two climbs to be negotiated, and only one of these, up Ingleby
Bank, can in any way be described as steep. The descent of Greenhow Bank is via
the Ingleby Incline, down which wagons laden with iron ore were lowered until
the line closed in 1928. Since closure of the line, Ingleby Greenhow has
reverted from a busy and noisy industrial centre back to its pervious sleepy
existence.
There is also the option to extend the walk to 11¼-mile (with 1500ft of ascent)
by following the RED
route to the summit of Round Hill and Clay Bank.
