The Yorkshire Round                                                        UK Ultras

This could be described as Yorkshire’s answer to the Bob Graham Round!  The object is to ascend twenty of the two-thousand foot summits which lie on or within the county boundary of North Yorkshire by starting from Horton-in-Ribblesdale.  It involves some 85 miles and climbing 17000 feet within a 24 hour limit.  What it lacks in ascent is more than made up for in distance and arduous Yorkshire terrain!  The route is, in fact, a reduced version of a more formidable 115 mile Yorkshire two-thousands route which devised by Peter Barker of Harrogate and first completed in 1982.  The Yorkshire Round was devised by Tony Wimbush using the more recent Nuttall’s summit lists and was inaugurated by Tony Wimbush and Colin Brooke in 1994 in 23 hours 23 minutes.  The basic round may be extended to include Water Crag and Rogan’s Seat north of Swaledale.

Route

Schedule

Click on the icon to download summit details and a sub-24 hour schedule.  This is in an Excel spreadsheet format that can be viewed and printed or, alternatively, there is the option to save the file so that it can then be customised to your personal pace and start time - see the notes at the bottom of the spreadsheet.

Registration

Successful completions must be recorded on the registration form.  Quality, coloured certificates are available free but subject to a donation of at least £4 to WaterAid.  See registration form for details.

Registration Form – click icon to view/print pdf file

Completions

Links and Further Information

□   The Mountains of England and Wales, Volume 2: England, John &  Anne Nuttall, (Cicerone Press, 1990)

□   www.mountaindays.net -  a comprehensive database of UK mountain summits.  Note that the Nuttall’s Yorkshire Dales list covers summits in Cumbria as well as Yorkshire

□   Hill lists in the British Isles - the Wikipedia entry giving explanations of the various lists including the definition of a Nuttall

Ribblehead Viaduct and Whernside (Christine Church)

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