Hayburn Wyke waterfall
Waterfall North Yorkshire, England
About Hayburn Wyke waterfall
Hayburn Wyke sits on the North York Moors coast roughly halfway between Scarborough and Whitby, inside the National Park. Getting there involves a descent through National Trust-managed woodland on steep, uneven stone steps that can be seriously muddy — which keeps the crowds manageable. At the bottom, Hayburn Beck splits into a two-tiered fall that drops over mossy rocks and spills straight onto a rocky pebble cove, one of the very few places in England where a waterfall lands directly on a beach. The cove is tidal, so the amount of beach you get varies. The flow itself depends entirely on recent rainfall: after a dry stretch it can shrink to a thin trickle, but following heavy rain it becomes genuinely impressive. Walking back up, you can loop via the Cinder Track, the old rail line between Scarborough and Whitby. The Hayburn Wyke Inn, an 18th-century coaching house, sits near the trailhead and is a reasonable place to recover after the climb back up.
Location & details
- Category
- Waterfall
- Region
- North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
- Coordinates
- 54.35948, -0.44741
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