Yorkshire Wolds Route

A route leads from York through the delightful scenery of the North Yorkshire Moors and the Yorkshire Wolds, which rise to heights of up to 800ft/244m, to the North East Coast. Formerly this was a vast sheep-grazing region, with only a thin covering of poor soil over the underlying limestone. Recently, however, the soil has been improved and broad swaths of land have become fertile cornfields, variegated by white crags of rock, attractive clumps of woodland and avenues of tall trees.