Often on the Yorkshire skyline are the Cleveland Hills, a collection of peaks as you'll see in other hikes on this site. Here's a pic of them from the Eston Nab hike with Roseberry Topping to the left and on the right, three of the peaks climbed on this hike.
This hike takes on the three peaks to the left on the pic above. It's a bit up and down so, to make the way back easier and for a slight change of scenery I headed back along a more level route along the bottom of the hills.
This is the route, as with all Lordstones hikes I parked at Lordstones Country Park. This route takes you along the Cleveland Way, up the hill to the peak at Cringle Moor, then another peak at Cold Moor and onwards to the Wainstones. Very hilly and passing through the Wainstones does involve a bit of scrambling over large rocks. After a lot of uphill and downhill I chose a nice, level path along the bottom of the hills for the return journey.
It begins, starting from the Lordstones Country Park and heading North to the Cleveland Way. Head right at this signpost below, the other path to the left is the path we take back.
Following the well established dirt path you get the first view of one of the three peaks.
The path changes from dirt to stone steps and gets quite steep. Here is the path looking back down from the top of the first peak.
At the top of this peak is the Alec Falconer memorial seat.
After a short rest to take in the views its time to head along the hilltops. This pic shows the second and, in the distance, the third peak. It also shows the lower path which is the route back.
But we're staying up top and heading along the hilltops.
And back down the first peak, careful on those steps.
Here at the lower point is the main junction from the lower to higher paths. We'll be back here later on the way back, but we're continuing to follow the Cleveland Way at this point.
Time to take a grassy and stoney path up to the second peak
From the top of the second peak, with the third peak, the Wainstones, in the distance. This second peak isn;t even classed as a viewpoint on the OS map.
Down into the next valley for a more ominose view of the Wainstones.
Another uphill trek to the third and final peakand.
So rocky that the signposts are stuck on the rocks, showing how much of a rocky scramble it can be.
Looking back down from where we came.
And the view from the top, looking back at the previous peak.
A nice, stoney path along the third hilltop.
Obligatory animal pic with Bilsdale mast on the horizon to the right (I did a walk there: Bilsdale Expedition).
Carry on along the Cleveland Way, over the hill top.
With some lovely views, spot the Rosey!
This is the furthest, highest and Eastest point of the hike.
It's all downhill from here, a nice, grassy downhill path.
At the bottom of the hill we turn hard left, leaving the Cleveland Way and doubling back along the lower path back to Lordstones. From the lower path you have views up to where we were earlier.
A good view of the Wainstones from the lower path.
And the second peak from the lower path. This pic also shows the lower path being mainly a dirt track.
Following the edge of the woods and sometimes venturing into them.
The first peak in the distance from the lower path.
Back to the signpost we saw earlier, staying on the lower path, not the Cleveland Way.
Continuous views of the clifftops we headed over earlier.
Looking back along the lower path to the Wainstones.
The last part of the path back to the country park is through a wooded area where you leave the woods at the signpost at the start of this writeup.
