The most usual route taken when walking from the Hole of Horcum to Pickering would be via Levisham Moor and Levisham but, beautiful as it may be, we will be taking a different route today. This walk really is a walk of two halves - the scenery and landscape differs tremendously in the afternoon from what we experience in the morning, the morning is superb!!! At the start of this walk we will still get a lovely view of the 'Hole' but, at its most northerly point we leave the well-beaten track to take a lesser-used path below the head of Levisham Moor and follow the course of Newton Dale. The route has an ever-descending nature for the first four miles before the only serious climb of the day - up to Newton-upon-Rawcliffe (our lunch-stop). Up to this point, fabulous views are to be had below Levisham Moor and also as we look across and along Newton Dale... if the timetable is in our favour we may get to see, or at least in places, hear, a steam train chuffing it's way up to Newtondale Halt as it travels onwards to Whitby. We’ll also get a clear view of the Fylingdales Early Warning Tower along here too.... weather permitting! Our first break of the day will be at Skelton's Tower which affords us not only a perfect place at which to rest and eat a snack but it also gives a wonderful viewpoint of the valley below and a privileged view should a steam train pass. This wonderful natural break (an hour into the walk) is followed by a fairly short walk alongside Yorfalls Wood, and the edge of some open grass-land with sheep and possibly grazing cattle in evidence until we take a sharp descent to the bottom of Newton Dale to cross the North Yorks Moors Railway Line and then ascend through woods and Newton Banks up to the village of Newton-upon-Rawcliffe for our lunch stop. After lunch we follow a section of the ‘Tabular Hills Walk’ track for a while as we walk above the East Brow Banks and before leaving the track behind, above Farwath. Walking along tracks in open farmland we'll reach Newbridge and another rail crossing. From here, we follow a path through a wood with amazing exposed sedimentary rock formations, running parallel to the line of the road, until we turn upwards and walk past the rear of Pickering Castle - impressive, and it serves as another landmark on this interesting walk. All too soon we arrive in the middle of Pickering and the welcoming sight of our coach.