Bank Top Iron Kilns – Ana Cross loop from Kirkbymoorside

Bike touring routes & trails

United Kingdom

England

Yorkshire And The Humber

North Yorkshire

Ryedale

Kirkbymoorside

Bank Top Iron Kilns – Ana Cross loop from Kirkbymoorside

Hard

riders

Bank Top Iron Kilns – Ana Cross loop from Kirkbymoorside

03:36

42.8km

720m

Cycling

Hard bike ride. Very good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: August 22, 2026

Tips

Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 9.16 km for 210 m

Waypoints

Start point

Bus stop

Get Directions

2.13 km

Swineherd Plantation

Forest

3.28 km

Cockshot Plantation

Forest

6.96 km

View of Spaunton Moor from Gillamoor Bank

Highlight • Viewpoint

A slightly shockingly beautiful view from here - surprising (walking the streets of Gilamoor, this view comes pretty much out of nowhere!). There is a bench provided from which you can admire Douthwaite Dale and the moors beyond.

Tip by

24.4 km

View from Blakey Junction

Highlight • Trail

Rosedale is a cycling paradise, both for road (it's used a lot in the Tour of Britain/Yorkshire) and for off road too. It's hilly terrain, but the views are more than worth it.

Tip by

30.9 km

Rosedale East Kilns

Highlight • Historical Site

Well worth a visit and a good reminder of the industrial heritage of the North York Moors area.

Tip by

30.9 km

Bank Top Iron Kilns

Highlight • Historical Site

The ironstone-rich landscape around Rosedale was totally transformed in Victorian times as demand for iron grew. So valuable was Rosedale Ironstone that 19th-century mine owners made every effort to extract it, even in remote areas.

Tip by

31.4 km

Rosedale ROC Post

Highlight • Viewpoint

An ROC Post at the top of Rosedale Chimney Bank. Looks pretty much intact although the entrance as been welded shut.

Tip by

32.1 km

Ana Cross

Highlight • Monument

Ana Cross marks the spot of a prehistoric burial mound, a funerary monument from the Late Neolithic period to the Late Bronze Age. It’s topped by a modern replacement of …

Tip by

35.6 km

St. Mary's Church, Lastingham

Highlight • Settlement

A very lovely village with some serious history going back to the 7th century. At the site of the present St Mary's Church here, was founded by St Cedd of …

Tip by

38.6 km

Hutton-le-Hole Village Green and Stream

Highlight • Settlement

Hutton-le-Hole is often considered one of the prettiest villages in the whole of North York Moors National Park, with easy access to the moorlands. The village itself has a good …

Tip by

42.8 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types