Grosmont to Robin Hood's Bay
The final day of the Coast to Coast: 15 miles (24 km) of moor, wood and clifftop carrying you from Grosmont, in the heart of the North York Moors National Park, to the North Sea at Robin Hood's Bay. It opens with a stiff road climb onto Sleights Moor (about 290 m, near the Bronze Age Breckon Howe and Flat Howe barrows), then drops into the wooded valley of Little Beck, where the path threads past the Hermitage and Falling Foss, a waterfall of about 30 ft (9 m). A boggy crossing of Sneaton Low Moor and the Graystone Hills — the very last moor of the walk — leads to Hawsker, where you join the Cleveland Way for a breezy three-mile finish along the Jurassic cliffs past Maw Wyke Hole and Ness Point. The descent into Robin Hood's Bay, with its red-pantiled cottages tumbling down a steep ravine, is one of the great endings in British walking. By long tradition you go to the slipway, dip your boots in the North Sea and throw in the pebble you carried from St Bees. Rated Hard, mainly for its length and the cumulative effort of two weeks on the feet. The Coast to Coast Path was designated a fully waymarked National Trail in 2026.

Grosmont to Robin Hood's Bay