Hasty Bank, Broughton
Climbing Hasty Bank from Garfit Gap
Hasty Bank, Broughton, Coast to Coast
Hasty Bank is a hill that rises to 398m opposite to the Clay Bank car park, due south of the town of Great Broughton. It is near the end of the eastern chain of hill tops encountered by the Coast to Coast path along the north ridge of the North Yorkshire Moors, which first begins with Scarth Wood Moor.
Hasty Bank rises from Garfit Gap and its western face looks across to Cold Moor. Hasty Bank is renowned for its eminent outcropping of jagged sandstone boulders and pinnacles known as the Wain Stones. The Wain Stones are strewn across the path of the Coast to Coast and a small but safe scramble is required to pass them.
Hasty Bank is steep from all directions and has a disused sandstone quarry on its southern side, which is home to an ancient rock sculpture known as The Lady of Bilsdale. The carving is of a woman's head who gazes down into Bilsdale.
Hasty Bank
Walking up Hastby Bank from Cold Moor requires a descent to Garfitt Gap followed by a steep climb to the 390m ridge top. The ascent requires a scramble between the large boulders making up the Wain Stones. The actual summit of 398m is a little further east, on the north east corner of Hasty Bank, which is known as White Hill.
Wain Stones
The Wain Stones are a huddle of sandstone outcroppings being exposed between 350-398m on the east face of Hasty Bank. The Coast to Coast path passes through the north edge of the Stones, requiring a small scramble.
Hasty Bank Plateau
the plateau of Hasty Bank lies between 380 and 390m. It peaks in the north east corner, where it reaches 398m. This area of Hasty Bank if known as White Hill.
Hasty Bank South Face
Looking down the sheer south face of Hasty Bank is dizzying. In contrast the flush plain of Mowbray unfurls below, all the way north to Middlesbrough.
Wain Stones Pass
Descending from the plateau of Hasty Bank one finds the pass between the Wain Stones to the east of the Hill. The pass descends to Garfitt Gap.
Hasty Bank to Cold Moor
From the Hasty Bank plateau there is an engaging hillscape to Cold Moor and the woodlands of Broughton Bank.
White Hill on Hasty Bank
Looking across Clay Bank from Carr Ridge to Hasty Bank, the prominent scarp breaking from the whaleback plateau is White Hill, a 398m hill on the North Yorkshire Moors between Ingleby Greenhow to the north and Chop Gate to the south.
Hasty Bank from Urra Moor
From Carr Ridge on Urra Moor there is a spectacular hillscape over Hasty Bank. The Wainstones can be seen as a series of jagged pinnacles on the north west of the Hill; White Hill can be seen as the summit of Hasty Bank on the north east of the Whaleback.
Hasty Bank Farm
The resplendent setting of Hasty Bank Farm allows it to have an outlook all the way along Bilsdale between Cold Moor and Urra Moor. Seen from below, the farm is set at the foot of Hasty Bank Woods with a further and larger woodland further down which stretches from Middle Heads to Hasty Bank Woods.
White Hill to Clay Bank
The descent of Hasty Bank is via a long steep stone pitched path from White Hill, which can be very taxing on your knees. The road from Chopgate passes at the foot of the path. On its other side is the rise to Carr Ridge on Urra Moor, a much gentler experience.
Coast to Coast Trail Guide
Hiking the Coast to Coast
"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.
