The White Rose Walk, also known as the White Rose Challenge Walk, is a trail located in North Yorkshire, England. which was devised in 1968 by the Yorkshire Wayfarers. It starts at the Kilburn White Horse (National Grid Ref SE 514 813) and is completed by touching the trig point on top of Roseberry Topping (NZ 579 126). The walk, whilst recognised by the Long Distance Walkers Association (LDWA) as a long distance walk in itself, merges and crosses with several other long distance paths including the Cleveland Way, the Coast to Coast Walk, and the Lyke Wake Walk. The route takes in the highest peaks in the area such as Live Moor, Carlton Moor, Sutton Bank, Cold Moor, the Wainstones and Urra Moor. The walk also passes Captain Cooks Monument on Easby Moor.
The walk takes in not only stunning scenery with grand views of the Vale of York but also takes the walker through Yorkshire's history, passing by Bronze Age ancient burial mounds, the site of 18th century horse racing and Hambleton Drove Road where cattle were taken to market in Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Lincolnshire by Scottish and Northumbrian drovers.
Walkers who complete the walk within a 24-hour period can claim a woven badge and a small certificate.
Route White Horse Kilburn - 515813 View Point Sutton Bank - 514828 Sneck Yate Bank - 508875 High Paradise Farm - 504887 Whitestones - 491931 Minor Road - 479959 Picnic area near Moor - 470993 Carlton Bank - 522030 Picnic Area Hasty Bank - 572035 Incline top - Railway - 611025 T - Junction Kildale - 605092 Captain Cook Monument - 590101 Roseberry Topping - 579126 END T - Junction at Newton - 571128
Footnotes
Further reading White, Geoffrey (February 1976). The White Rose Walk in The North York Moors: Special No. 2, Long Distance Walkers Association. pp. 25–30 (A description of the route(s) from 1976 including map )