The best running trails around Whashton

Richmond Station break ice cream and coffee

Great place to stop for a break when out cycling. Richmond market place has plenty of cafes and pubs, for bite to eat and a refreshing drink.

Willance House is a Grade 2 listed building set in Frenchgate, a cobbled street just 2 or 3 minutes walk from the Market Place. Reputedly the oldest house in Richmond, it was the home of Robert Willance the first Alderman of Richmond. Robert Willance left his mark on Richmond in two ways. He was the first Alderman (the equivalent of Mayor) of Richmond in 1608, but two years earlier he survived a hunting accident at a site on Whitcliffe Scar, just outside Richmond. The site is now known as Willance's Leap in commemoration of the amazing event in 1606. Robert Willance, whose family owned property at Clints near Marske as well as in Richmond, was out hunting one day, riding an inexperienced and nervous young horse, when a thick mist suddenly came down. The horse bolted and fell 212ft over the edge of Whitcliffe Scar and was killed. Willance survived the fall but with a broken leg. Realising he would not be rescued until the fog lifted, he used his hunting knife to slit open the horse’s belly and inserted into it his fractured leg. This probably saved his life, as the extra warmth would delay the onset of gangrene. Later, he was taken back to his house in Richmond, now No. 24 Frenchgate or Willance House, where his injured leg was amputated. He made such a good recovery that he was able to serve as the first Alderman of Richmond in 1608. Robert Willance also gave Richmond a silver ‘boulle’ or cup which is on display with other civic plates in the Green Howards Regimental Museum in the Market Place. He died in 1616 and was buried in the churchyard of St. Mary’s parish church, close to the garden wall of Willance House. According to tradition, he was reunited with his leg which had been buried there ten years earlier. His grave is marked by a flat stone near a door in the garden wall, but the inscription is no longer legible.

One of the only or the only half-timbered house in Richmond

Monday to Saturday 10am to 4.30pm. Last entry at 4pm. Museum entry: £8 | ages 10-16: £5 | under 10s: free Three hundred years of friendship and adventure, service and sacrifice. At the museum they tell the absorbing story of this famous regiment through the eyes of the soldiers who served.

Easy short delightful walk, with history included!!

A brilliant cairn on this spot, marking the junction of the footpath from Marske with the Applegarth Scar bridleway. There are terrific views from here to the south: over the River Swale to Thorpe Edge, Red Scar and West Wood.

There is a sign on the bench with a quote from Alfred Wainwright, in which he speaks highly of the city of Richmond. As a Coast to Coast walker you will also see that it is only 76.5 miles (123km) more to Robin Hood's Bay... so you already have 113.5 miles (more than 182km) in your legs.