The Coast to Coast path leaves Rosedale Head at Wether Hill, turning east along the Rosedale Road. At Seavey Hill the path takes the moorland road across Glaisdale. The path here is known as the Cut Road.

Trough House is a gamekeeper's house on the Cut Road . This is near the start of the Coast to Coast path across Glaisdale Moor. Trough House is surrounded by disused coal mines. Another path, from the north, named the Gain Road, joins the Cut Road path at Trough House, linking it to Danby Dale.

Trough Gill Beck originates just south of the Cut Road from a moorland spring below Trough House. It is culverted beneath the Cut Road, where it then tumbles down the increasingly steep valley wall of Great Fryup Head, merging with a number of un-named gills on its way to the valley floor at Dale Head to become the Great Fryup Beck.

The Hills is an area located at the head of Great Fryup Dale, in particular on the south west valley wall. There are several tiers of mounds, called undercliffs, made by the interaction of a glacial lake undercutting this part of the valley wall and causing it to slip. This has occurred twice during the last Ice Age, when Great Fryup Dale had succumbed to an ice sheet.

Fryup Trough is the area between the Trough Gill Beck and the Cut Road, where the land begins to dip sharply. From the Trough, moving eastwards, are the waterfalls and cliffs of Yew Grain Scar, although hidden from sight from the Cut Road.

You can Look across Fryup Trough to Yew Grain Scar, which is part of the head wall to Great Fryup Dale. The top part of the Scar is made up of ferruginous (iron bearing) sandstone, with fossiliferous and alum shale below. There are a number of waterfalls tumbling over its steep cliffs. A dozen or more small gills dashing downhill from Great Fryup Head are culverted below the Cut Road Path. Many of these gills converge on the top of the Scar and form waterfalls and cascades as they make their way to the valley floor.

After the encounter with Yew Grain Scar the Cut Road bears north east towards Glaisdale Rigg. The Rigg is extensive and its path can be seen along the top of the Rigg, almost to the horizon. Great Fryup Dale is to the west.

The Cut Road ends as the path meets the Glaisdale Moorland Road beyond the gate. The moorland road can be seen in the distance as it climbs Glaisdale Rigg, which summits at 328m.

The Rokan Stone is an ancient marker stone located on Glaisdale Moor above the south west end of the valley. It lies beside the main path to Glaisdale Rigg (the medieval Yarlsgate) and is about 1/3 mile south west of the Hart Leap Stones and Earthwork. Roke is a local term for a dense wet fog.

The site of the Hart Leap Stones is found in a small area in and around the path to the south of the minor road on the south end of Glaisdale Rigg. There are several Stones, thought to be the remains of a Stone Row. The same area also has a Cross Dyke, which extends north west and south east across the moorland road above Highdale Farm, although neither the Stones nor the Cross Dyke can be seen from the road. The Cross Dyke is a Scheduled Monument with Historic England.

Glaisdale Rigg angles away from the moorland road just above Bainley Bank. It follows the east margin of the Moor into Glaisdale. From the path there are extensive views to the east over Glaisdale Valley.

Post Gate Hill disused stone quarries have been attractively naturalised with water and reeds, which enhance the area around this once industrious stone working series of quarries.

Coast to Coast Trail Guide

"Hiking the Coast to Coast" is a digitally enhanced eBook available from Apple Books for all people who have either a Mac, an iPhone or an iPad, and is designed to accompany you on your walk of the Coast to Coast path. The trail guide contains Ordnance Survey maps and other advanced mapping features, step by step directions, hundreds of colour photographs, details of the route, its conditions in different weather and research snippets relating to places of interest along the way.