Skebro one

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I walked this route as part of a circular walk from Skelton, to Brotton and Saltburn and back to Skelton. It was a lovely spring evening.
There is good parking in the middle of Skelton, a newly surfaced car park between the coop and the fire station, and it is free although can be full. There is also street parking. There is an excellent co-op and two nice deli sandwich shops on the other side of the road. You can easily buy a nice sandwich to eat on your walk.
This is a hilly route mostly over farmland but dipping in and out of the villages. The route starts with steps out of the middle of Skelton, up the side of the Ringrose Orchard, which is a lovely community garden. It follows the Cleveland Way, which is well signposted, for a short distance before turning left onto a byway and then left again onto Trouthall Lane (I once drove my car down this lane, just to see what it was like, never again! I ended up with a fractured fuel pipe) but it is a lovely lane to walk, with extensive views across farmland towards the village of Lingdale.
At the bottom of Trouthall Lane you come through Trouthall Farm.
There is then a short stretch of walk on a road without footways. This requires care. There is only room to step off onto the verge on the west side. This road is notorious for accidents so please be careful. The route then joins the old Cleveland Street, to come into North Skelton via the allotments. On the way you cross a couple of becks by footbridges, and there are a couple of muddy sections, although there had been quite a lot of rain shortly before I walked it. Just before the railway bridge you see Elmora Nurseries, locally known as Mario's. It is much bigger than it looks, a local business and very competitively priced.
Go under the railway bridges in North Skelton then turn immediately right to find the Cleveland Street route again. On the OS map this goes immediately left, but you actually need to walk up the track until you reach the railway bridge on your right, where you will see on your left the path you need to take.
The route goes over some fields then crosses the railway line by a pedestrian crossing with a stile at each side. This line is used to carry freight from the potash mine at Boulby so take care. You will sometimes see local lads walking their dogs on the railway line but this is illegal and very dangerous so please don't be tempted to do this.
The little section after this is a bit confusing. There are several tracks which are not clearly marked on the map. You go straight on, bearing slightly right, for a few yards, then turn left and cross the route of an old railway line in a cutting and then you will find a stile leading into a field. Alternatively, you can turn left just after crossing the active railway line and follow a path parallel to the line till it reaches a track parallel to the bypass, where you turn right until you reach the bridge crossing the bypass.
The path then takes you across the edge of a field, past the community hospital, which has the best views it is possible to have from a hospital bed. Keep going in the same direction past a row of terrace houses until you reach Brotton High street.
Uphill from the finish point you will find the Queens Arms (locally known as the Blood Tubs, this is the stuff of legend) where the food is excellent. There is also a small supermarket just downhill from the finish point. This is a bus route. I am not aware of any public toilets on this route.

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