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To reserve a date and time to walk Andy Goldsworthy’s Hanging Stones, please select a slot on the calendar below. The buildings and the permissive section of the route are only accessible to those with a key, which is available for collection together with a map at the time of your booking.
Please double check the details before confirming your booking. From 1 September 2025 we will no longer be able to offer refunds or accommodate amendments to bookings.
You may book for up to 6 people per time slot.
The cost is £10 per adult, while students and under 18s go free.
All booking fees directly support the ongoing maintenance and running of Hanging Stones.
Once your booking is complete, you will receive a confirmation email with further details about your visit. (Please check your spam or junk folder if it doesn’t appear in your inbox). If you do not receive this email, have further enquiries, or wish to request a booking for a larger group, please contact info@hangingstones.org. Please note that this inbox is monitored within working hours and not on weekends.
Walk Overview
The walk is approximately 6 miles over varying terrain, and is suitable for proficient walkers. The walk requires reasonable map-reading skills and takes around 5 to 6 hours.
Dogs are welcome on leads. Suitable footwear is essential as the ground can become difficult underfoot during periods of wet weather.
The walk is a circular loop that begins and ends at the Milburn Arms in Rosedale Abbey. Whilst the pub remains closed there is free parking here for walkers.
Important Travel Advice
In wintry conditions, when approaching Rosedale from the A170 please use the Wrelton/Cropton route, and under no circumstances use the Hutton le Hole/Chimney Bank route which is favoured by sat nav.
Please read our FAQs for further information on your visit.
Frequently Asked Questions
Booking
You can book for up to 6 people per time slot. When you come to booking please use the drop-down menu titled ‘Number of Visitors’.
No this refers to the number of time slots available that day. You can book for up to 6 people per time slot.
Yes please contact info@hangingstones.org to discuss how to do this.
No all the relevant details of your booking will be confirmed in your booking confirmation email. Please check your spam and junk folders for this if you cannot see it in your inbox. If you have not received it please contact info@hangingstones.org.
Hanging Stones bookings are non-refundable and are non-transferable.
Your Visit
The walk is a 6-mile round loop and starts and ends at the Milburn Arms in Rosedale Abbey. While the pub is unfortunately closed there is free parking here for walkers.
Please note that you will need to collect the key and map, at the time of your booking from Sevenford House in Rosedale Abbey, which is a 2-minute drive/ 15-minute walk away from the Milburn Arms.
Please arrive promptly at Sevenford House B&B at the time of your booking.
The address is Sevenford House, Rosedale Abbey, Pickering, YO18 8SE
There are no amenities on the walk.
Dogs are welcome on leads.
Please note that the route takes you through several fields with livestock.
Yes. Nearby stations include Malton and Northallerton, from which you will have to organise a taxi.
A popular route for visitors travelling from London:
Take the train from London to Malton, with a change at York.
Book a taxi to collect you from Malton station and take you to Sevenford House B&B, to collect the key & map, before dropping you off at the start of the walk – just a 2 minute drive away – outside the Milburn Arms pub in Rosedale Abbey.
Yes there is free parking at the Milburn Arms in Rosedale Abbey, where you start and finish the walk. Please note that the pub is unfortunately closed at this time.
Access
Yes there are a number that are accessible by car, please email info@hangingstones.org for further details.
There is a possibility to walk to the first few houses Heygate Thorns (in production), Hanging Stones and Southfield House and then turn back but anything further than this proves difficult as the walk is a circular loop.