Start point: SE 838530 Millington Wood car park
Map: OS Explorer Map 294
Distance: About 5 miles, moderately easy
Terrain: There is one steep ascent at Nettle Dale. Some of the going is rough underfoot, but generally the walk keeps to the top edges of the dales.
As you come out of the car park, go left on the road and take the first gate you come to on the left of the road. Go up the short hill to the gate at the top. Do not go through but turn right along a faint track keeping the fence on your left.When you reach a "mini" dale leading back down to the road, bear left round the top edge passing a smaller gate and two others. Go through the next metal gate and continue contouring on the fairly level track keeping the fence on your left. You will eventually see Scoar Dale ahead which is now access land. Make your way down through some sparse trees into the valley bottom and head for the gate onto the road.
Go left along the road until it turns to the left at the foot of Nettle Dale. Leave the road, go through the gate in front of you and take the footpath up the steep side of Nettle Dale bearing right on the Wolds Way to the edge of Jessop’s Plantation. Here the footpath continues over the hill, but you turn right along the top eastern edge of Nettle Dale. Then take a right-angle turn along the field boundary, which is the southern edge of the dale. Continue along it until you hit the Wolds Way footpath coming up from the bottom of the dale on your right.
Turn left over the stile and follow the footpath along the boundary edge of the field until the path plunges down the steep slope at the entrance to Sylvan Dale. Do not descend, but turn left here and walk along the top edge of the dale following the field boundary until you hit the footpath again. Bear right towards the bottom of the dale, then left back to the road using a bridge at the southern end of the small lake. It can be pretty muddy here.Turn left on to the road to return to the Millington Wood car park.
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Refreshments are available in Millington village centre at the Gate Inn and at the cosy Ramblers' Rest tea room which is open on Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Also by appointment during the week. Evening meals can be arranged for groups and are highly recommended by our members.