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Hunmanby:
Hunmanby Village is reputedly the largest of the
Wolds villages. And is probably the largest parish
in England. It is an active community with a wealth
of heritage to explore and a busy commercial high
street called Bridlington Street where you can buy
local meat, veg, and deli specialities. Turn to the
right when leaving the station and a short pleasant
walk of around 10 minutes takes you into Hunmanby
centre. As well as these small shops Hunmanby has a
co-op, a chemist, a
post office, a doctors, an optician and many more.
Eating Out in Hunmanby:
Hunmanby has a number of pubs serving meals, we
recommend the White Swan, an old coaching inn
situated at the end of Bridlington Street opposite
All Saints Church
in the heart of the village. Wrangham House Hotel is
behind the church and was the old rectory now
converted to a small country house hotel. It serves
meals and
offers afternoon tea and morning coffee. The Railway
Tavern also serves food and
is about a 10 minute walk away. Turn right out of
the station, take the first
turn right and walk down until you come back to the
railway tracks. The Railway
Tavern is on your left. Hunmanby has a number of
take-aways too. All on the
Bridlington Street are a chip shop with café, a
Chinese take-away and a pizza and kebab take away.
Recreation around Hunmanby:
Travel. We hope the bus and rail timetables
we have left for you are useful. We
ask for a £10 deposit for your rail pass which
entitles up to two people to
unlimited travel on the Yorkshire Wolds Coast Line
between Scarborough and Hull
entirely free during your stay at The Old Waiting
Rooms. We will return your
deposit at the end of your stay in exchange for the
rail pass.
Dog Walking. Turn right out of the station,
over the level crossing, after about
50 yards you will see a small cemetery on your left,
it is known as "God's Acre".
Just before God's Acre there is a small path going
up the side, you can walk your
dog here. Both Hunmanby Gap and Filey Bay are dog
friendly beaches. In Filey you
must keep your dog on the part of the Beach starting
at the bottom of Coble
Landing going up to the Brig during the summer
months. The area below the sea
wall is restricted for dogs at these times.
Golf and Gym.
Hunmanby has a 9 hole pay and play golf course and
gym 5 minutes walk from The
Old Waiting Rooms. Turn right out of
the station, take the first turn left, then up the
hill and first right. Go on
for about quarter of a mile and you will see the
golf course and gym on your right.
Fishing.
As already mentioned freshwater fishing is available
at the lake just behind
Station House. You will need the usual license to
fish here and day tickets are
available at the lake. Turn left out of Station
House, go up the hill and turn
left again just past the carpet shop. Go through a
small commercial estate and
straight ahead you will come to a large caravan at
the lake where tickets are
available. Unfortunately dog walking is not allowed
at the lake.
The Yorkshire Heritage Coast is three miles away and
there is good sea fishing
from Filey Coble landing at high tide where you will
most likely catch small flat
fish or on Filey Brig itself if you are after Cod,
Pollock or Mackerel in season.
Bird Watching.
Bempton RSPB bird sanctuary is four miles away and
is an important site
internationally for nesting sea birds particularly
Gannets and Puffins. You can
get there by train if you don' t mind a walk from
the Bempton Station or by car
in about 15 minutes. Go left from Hunmanby Station,
up the hill until the T-junction at the top. Go straight across and follow the
signs to the sanctuary. There you
pay to park then it is free to get in. You can also rent
binoculars there.
Nearby Places of Interest to Visit
Filey.
Filey is only three miles away and is a small
traditional seaside town still
retaining much of its Edwardian charm. You can get
to Filey by train or in the
car, both journeys take only 5 minutes. A walk
along The Crescent in Filey town
centre or in the Crescent Gardens opposite with
white walled tall houses on one
side and fantastic views over the sea on the other
is a must. Enjoy fish and
chips seated on the top of the cliff here listening
to the sounds of the sea.
Filey has over 6 miles of beautiful sandy beach
framed by the famous Brig to
the North, now designated an area of outstanding
natural importance because of
the variety of wildlife it has, and Flamborough and
Bempton Cliffs to the South.
Filey Brig.
This is a great place to watch for seals and sea
birds and deer can sometimes be
spotted on the top of North Cliff - the cliffs
which line Filey Bay to the
north. These cliffs and grass land above the bay can
be walked by driving up to
North Cliff Country car park where there are
hundreds of pay and display spaces.
Park towards the cliff edge and the views are
spectacular. Walk along the top of
the Brig and enjoy views toward Scarborough to the
north and Flamborough to the
south. Look for the white cliffs toward Flamborough
with both the old and the new
lighthouses above. You can climb inside the new
lighthouse and on a clear day see
right over to the Humber Bridge.
Filey Coble Landing.
During your stay you might like to visit Filey's
Coble landing. Coble is the name
for the type of fishing boat used locally and the
coble landing is where cobles
are stored and work from. There are still a few
cobles fishing commercially from
coble landing where they are launched and retrieved
by tractor. If you visit
coble landing early - usually by 10.00am - you may
see the cobles being pulled
from the sea up coble landing and the catch landed.
There is a train around
9.15am and coble landing is only a 10 minute walk
from Filey Station. Catch all
year round is usually crab and lobster. During the
summer months wild sea trout
and salmon are netted in the bay itself using small
cobles.
Filey Bay.
The Bay is home to many species of fish. Regularly
caught by local recreational
fishermen and women are cod, mackerel, whiting, sea
bass in season, various flat
fish like dab, plaice, sole and thorn back ray.
Recently there has been an influx
of pipefish. You may see these in the rock pools on
the Brig. They are long like
a worm and a brownish colour; they are a member of
the sea horse family and have
a delicate sea horse like head. The male carries and
gives birth to the young and
they appear to be breeding now in the bay.
Fossils at Filey.
Fossils frequently wash out of the clay cliffs
during the process of erosion and
can often be found under the cliffs of Filey Bay.
Filey museum has an exhibition
of the types of fossils often found here, the museum
is housed in Filey's oldest
building on Queen Street which is said to be
haunted! The museum also has a
re-creation of a baiting shed where long lines for
fishing were prepared usually
by fisher wives, and the story of the Gansey, an
essential fishing garment still
knitted by a few people in the Filey area.
There are lots of other things to see and do here
and you may like to visit the
tourist information centre on John Street in Filey.
Opening hours are : May to Sept 10.00 - 5.30
Oct to April weekends only 10.00 - 4.30
North Yorkshire Moors National Park.
A wealth of beauty to uncover and only half an hours
drive including the
Pickering Steam Railway now going all the way to
Whitby.
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