Hole of Horcum Circular Walk with Map Overlays

Enjoy this 11.3-km circular trail near Goathland, North Yorkshire. A moderately challenging route in places, it takes an average of 3 hrs to complete.
Starting at Saltgate Car Park, we walk across the top, to the small Village of Levisham, dip down into a woodland and valley hike back up to the Car Park and well deserved Ice Cream!
The Hole of Horcum is a spectacular feature in the North Yorkshire Moors National Park - a huge natural amphitheatre 400 feet deep and more than half a mile across.
According to local legends, it was formed when Wade the Giant scooped up a handful of earth to throw at his wife during an argument.
It was actually created by a process called spring-sapping, whereby water welling up from the hillside has gradually undermined the slopes above, eating the rocks away grain by grain.
Over thousands of years, a once narrow valley has widened and deepened into an enormous cauldron
00:44 - Start
02:13 - The Elbow
03:36 - 1st signpost
04:43 - Levisham Village
06:14 - into the Woods
07:32 - Steps !
09:58 - Beck
10:22 - Footbridge
13:33 - Old Farm House
14:04 - wrong way!
16:22 - Outro
17:52 - Relive Video