The Grey Panthers

A walk that takes in sections of the Cleveland Way as it follows the coast, together with some road walking and walking using farm footpaths and farm tracks.
The only real gradient to worry about is the ascent up from Hob Holes to the cliff top, not far from Runswick Bay.
Otherwise this is a really straightforward walk, with no navigational problems.
On a clear day the views are stupendous.

For a Memory Map overlay of the walk described, please select the above link.
(Overlay made with Version 5 of Memory Map)

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Start from Runswick Bay cliff top car park (NZ80815 16101).
There is a charge for use of this car park, and there are toilets.
From the car park, take the signposted Cleveland Way footpath down into the village.
After exploring the village, make for the beach and walk along the beach in an Easterly direction to Hob Holes (NZ813 155). Here there is a gully, leading to a set of steps which take you to the top of the cliff.
(If the tide is in and you cannot walk along the beach, the Cleveland Way follows a footpath above the beach.)
Follow the well signposted Cleveland Way to Kettleness Farm and then onwards to Telegraph Hill.
At Telegraph Hill (NZ850 145) take the signposted footpath South towards Lythe (the Cleveland Way continues East towards Sandsend).
After about 100 yards, leave this footpath and take the farm track West towards Goldsborough. Enter Goldsborough along the minor road which this farm track leads you on to.
At the T-junction in Goldsborough, take the road South until you come to the farm track at NZ832 143. Follow the track past Brockrigg Farm.
Just past the farm, take the footpath on your left at NZ823145 that takes you to Barnby Tofts farm.
Here, follow the way marks to the footpath West to Westfields Farm.
Just before you reach Westfields Farm, cut down to the bridge over the disused railway line. To the right of this bridge is a gate which takes you down to the railway line.
Follow the railway line Westwards, then North Westwards, back to Runswick Bay.