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Lyke Wake Walk
The Lyke Wake Walk is a 40-mile challenge walk across the moorlands of north-east Yorkshire at their highest and widest part. The Walk is entirely within the North York Moors National Park in north-east England. The Walk is unique in that it has an associated Club dedicated to this Walk alone which has developed its own social structure, culture and rituals based on the Walk itself together with the local Christian and folklore traditions of the area of North Yorkshire in which it is located.
==History==
The walk originated from an idea expressed in an article in the ''Dalesman'' magazine in August 1955. The author, local farmer Bill Cowley, pointed out that it was possible to walk over the North York Moors from east to west (or vice versa) on heather all the way except for crossing one or two roads and that, given the remoteness of the area at that time, a lone walker might not encounter another soul on that journey during the one to two days it might take. In that same article Cowley issued a challenge to see if anyone could walk from Scarth Wood Moor at the western extremity of the moors to Ravenscar on the coast, keeping on or close to the main watershed of the moorland area, within a twenty-four hour period. The first crossing was completed shortly afterwards on 1 and 2 October 1955; Bill Cowley was one of the party that made that Crossing in 23 hours and he subsequently wrote a book, ''Lyke Wake Walk'',〔Cowley, Bill (1959). ''Lyke Wake Walk: Forty Miles Across the North Yorkshire Moors''(1st edition). Dalesman Books.〕 which he kept up to date by frequent revision. The book ran to twelve editions in the author's lifetime and sold many thousands of copies.〔Cowley, Bill (1993). Lyke Wake Walk and the Lyke Wake Way (12th edition). Dalesman Books. ISBN 1 85568 063 7.〕 The book was further revised in 2001 by Paul Sherwood (a Past Master of the Lyke Wake Club).〔Sherwood, P. (2001). Lyke Wake Walk. Dalesman Publishing. ISBN 1 85568 191 9.〕
Bill Cowley's idea for the walk seems to have developed over a number of years before he issued in challenge in 1955. Cowley wrote a poem in 1935/6, Storming Along, where he describes traversing the moors and mentions a number of the Lyke Wake Walk landmarks.〔Cowley, Bill (1945(?)) Tara Devi and Other Verses. Punjab Boy Scouts Association.〕 Further Cowley's early contributions to the Dalesman, appear in retrospect, to hint at the idea of the Walk〔Obituary. Bill Cowley. Guardian. 17 August 1994. ISSN 0261-3077.〕 drawing on his appreciation of the works of Frank Elgee (archaeologist),〔Elgee, F. W. (1912) The Moorlands of North-East Yorkshire. Brown & Sons. London〕〔Elgee, F. W. (1930). Early Man in North-East Yorkshire. John Bellows. Gloucester.〕 Canon John Christopher Atkinson (antiquarian and folklore expert) 〔Atkinson, John C. (1891). Forty years in a Moorland Parish: reminiscences and researches in Danby in Cleveland''. London: Macmillan (later editions: 1907, 1967 and 1983).〕 and Alfred Brown (author and rambler).〔Brown, Alfred J. (1952). Fair North Riding. Country Life.〕〔Brown, Alfred J. (1945) Striding Through Yorkshire. Country Life.〕
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