Goathland & Mallyan Spout- Medium Walk

A walk with something to offer everyone- visit the setting to the popular TV series Heartbeat, look at the steam trains in the station and then continue your walk to the stunning waterfall Mallyan Spout.

Mallyan Spout

 Route of the Goathland and Mallyan Spout walk

  

Getting There From Middlesbrough, go up Ormesby Bank and take the first left turning onto Middlesbrough Road. Follow the road to Whitby on the A171. On the roundabout before Whitby, turn right into Sleights on the A169. Follow this road up the steep bank until you reach the right and turning to Goathland. Parking can be found in Goathland at a car park which you pay as you enter at the toll booth.

 The Walk From the car park, turn right and follow the road passing all the souvenir and ice cream shops, you can have a quick explore of the Heartbeat themed cars and set locations. The village is still popular due to the TV series being filmed here. Various sets such as the garage and vintage cars are in the village. 

Garage

Vintage police car  

Follow the road out of Goathland to the left which will lead you to the Mallyan Spout Hotel. When you reach the hotel, follow the path signposted to Mallyan Spout which passes via the side of the hotel. 

                                                       Sheep grazing on the roadFollow the path until you come to the path leading down to the waterfall. This path falls gradually and then you will come onto rocks and the path will become slippery and care needs to be taken on this path. Eventually you will come to the waterfall, which is a fantastic sight.

Views of Mallyan Spout 

Follow the path from Mallyan Spout until you reach a signpost signed to Beck Hole which follows the path to the right.     

Rocky path  

Follow the path through several gates until you reach Incline Cottage, near the village of Beck Hole. You now need to turn right and follow the old "Grosmont Rail Trail" back towards Goathland.  You will see a kissing gate and then turn right along Beck Hole Road. This will take you back into Goathland. Take some time out to look at the steam trains that frequently pass through the station.  

Steam train at Goathland station

 

Goathland Goathland is a village and civil parish in the Scarborough district of North Yorkshire, England. It is in the North York Moors national park due north of Pickering, off the A169 to Whitby. It has a station on the steam-operated North Yorkshire Moors Railway line.According to the 2011 UK census, Goathland parish had a population of 438, an increase on the 2001 UK census figure of 407.Goathland village is 500 feet above sea level and has a history extending from Viking times. In 1109 King Henry I granted land to Osmund the priest and brethren of the hermitage of Goathland, then called Godelandia for the soul of his mother Queen Matilda, who had died in 1083. This is recorded in a charter held at Whitby Abbey. The village was a spa town in the 19th century. There are many hotels and guest houses in the village, the largest, the Mallyan Spout Hotel, is named after a nearby waterfall. There is a caravan site, reached by driving along the track which is the site of the older railway route, 1835 to 1860.Much of the surrounding land is owned by the Duchy of Lancaster. The Duchy's tenants have a common right extending for hundreds of years to graze their black faced sheep on the village green and surrounding moorsThe village was the setting of the fictional village of Aidensfield in the Heartbeat television series set in the 1960s. Many landmarks from the series are recognisable, including the stores, garage/funeral directors, the public house and the railway station. The pub is called the Goathland Hotel, but in the series is the Aidensfield Arms. After filming for some years a replica was built in the studio.

Goathland railway station is on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. The railway is run by a charitable trust with some paid staff but is mostly operated by volunteers, running nearly all the year including Christmas. It carries more than 250,000 passengers a year and is the second-longest preserved line in Britain. It links Grosmont in the north with Pickering in the south, along the route of the Whitby - Pickering line built by George Stephenson in 1835 and upgraded in 1865. From 2007 some trains on the railway were timetabled to run to Whitby and in March 2014 work began in Whitby station to replace a platform and allow more North Yorkshire Moors Railway services to be timetabled Whitby - Pickering.Goathland railway station was used as the location for Hogsmeade railway station in the Harry Potter films, and the line filmed for Harry's journey.