Walking the Yorkshire Wolds Way | Part 1 - Hessle to Swindale (Days 1-2) | Walk the Chalk

The Yorkshire Wolds Way is the shortest of the National Trails of England and Wales, at 79 miles or 127 km, and generally takes 5-7 days to walk. It winds it's way from Hessle on the Humber Estuary through a landscape of chalk downland and dry glaciated valleys to finish at Filey on the east coast, where it meets the start of the Cleveland Way National Trail.
The trail is best walked between late spring and late summer, when the weather is good, and the poppies are out (June/July).
I walked the trail at the end of June 2022 and start of August 2022, unfortunately having to break off my first attempt due to family matters at home. This video covers the period from the start up to the point I had to get off trail.
I wild camped all the way along the trail, but originally intended to make use of campsites once they became more conveniently placed in the middle of the trail. However, my schedule was completely disrupted by having to get off trail, and once I resumed the spacing of campsites didn't really work for my schedule, so wild camping it was.
Read more at: backpackartist.com/2022/07/04...
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Video shot on Shot on DJI Osmo Action and Google Pixel 6
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Music:
Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 - from the CZcams Audio Library
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[@lindashephard2987]

Love the music!

[@mozdickson]

Great sound editing mate

[@meanqueensuperscrimper8908]

Thank you, it's a lovely area. I live on the south bank and have crossed the river many times to walk on the north bank. I recognised those benches. I always take a few minutes to sit down. I once had to do the diversion due to high tide. I was on the last day of a long walk from Blackpool. I set off from Selby and the last thing I wanted to do was go the long way round, but I made it to the bridge at 9pm after walking for 14 hours. ilona.

[@trendtraderx]

Looks a great trail well serviced with benches. One could make a great ridge trail linking all the wolds from Dorset to Cotswolds thro Nottingham/Leicestershire wolds, Lincolnshire wolds to Yorkshire wolds.

[@backpackartist]

A nice idea, if you could find a way of making the lowland gap south of Lincoln interesting. But the only thing that really ties these areas together is that they have "Wold" in their names, so it's more a cultural association than a geological one for instance. Another way would be to start in Dorset and walk the Greater Ridgeway to The Wash, all on chalk, and then head up to the Lincs and Yorkshire Wolds. Then you're actually following the band of chalk bedrock. (This is pretty much what I'm doing with this project - aiming to walk all of these chalk ridges).