NEW: Explore Yorkshire with The White Shire’s Interactive Walking Map

Michael Palmer
18 hours ago
5 min read

Explore Yorkshire with The White Shire’s Interactive Walking Map

Finding your next Yorkshire walk has just become much easier.

We’ve launched a new interactive Yorkshire walking map on The White Shire, bringing over 100 personally walked routes together in one place and giving you a completely different way to decide where to explore next.

Instead of starting with a long list of walks, you can now start with Yorkshire itself.

Open our Yorkshire Walks page and interactive map, move around the county, zoom into an area that interests you and click or tap one of the routes.

From there, you can read our full account of the walk, see photographs and practical information, examine the route on a topographic map and then open it in Komoot when you’re ready to walk it yourself.

With more than 100 walks across Yorkshire already on the map, there’s plenty to explore — from countryside and woodland walks to reservoirs, canals, rivers, historic villages, moorland and coastal routes.

How Our New Interactive Yorkshire Walks Map Works

We wanted the new map to do more than simply show where our walks are.

It provides a straightforward route from discovering somewhere interesting to having the information and navigation you need to go and explore it yourself.

1. Explore the Map and Pick Your Walk

Start with our Yorkshire Walks and Interactive Map.

Zoom in and out and move around Yorkshire to see the routes we’ve walked.

You don’t need to know the name of a walk beforehand. If you fancy exploring a particular part of Yorkshire, simply move the map to that area and see what we’ve discovered nearby.

Tap or click a route and its details appear. Select View Walk Details when you find one that catches your eye.

2. Read Our Full White Shire Walk Guide

Selecting View Walk Details takes you directly to that route’s individual White Shire walk guide.

This is where you can find out what the walk is actually like.

These aren’t routes we’ve collected from other walking websites. Michael and Lyn walk the routes featured on The White Shire ourselves, recording the journey and photographing what we discover along the way.

Our individual guides can include distance, terrain, parking, refreshments, places of interest, local history and observations from our own experience of completing the walk.

The photographs also give you a much better idea of the landscape and surroundings before you decide whether the route is right for you.

3. See the Route on a Topographic Map

The next step is particularly useful when planning your walk.

Our individual walk pages include a topographic view of the route, allowing you to see more detail about the landscape the walk passes through.

Rather than looking at distance alone, you can examine the route in relation to the surrounding countryside, villages, woodland, waterways, roads and other landscape features.

It gives you another opportunity to understand the walk before setting off.

4. Open the Walk in Komoot

Once you’ve explored the White Shire guide and decided the walk is for you, you can follow the link to the route in Komoot.

There you can access [photos and the detailed route and Komoot’s navigation features when you’re ready to head out.

The whole process is designed to work together:

Interactive Yorkshire Map → Pick Your Walk → White Shire Walk Guide → Topographic Map → Komoot Route

Rather than immediately sending you away to a navigation service, The White Shire helps you discover the walk and understand what you’re likely to encounter first.

Yorkshire Walks We’ve Actually Walked

An important part of The White Shire is that we actually get out and explore the places we write about.

Michael and Lyn personally walk the routes featured in our walking collection.

Sometimes we visit one of Yorkshire’s better-known walking areas. Other times a village, wood, reservoir, canal, old railway line or patch of countryside catches our attention and we decide to see where the paths take us.

Those less obvious places are an important part of what we’re building.

Yorkshire has its famous landscapes, but there are thousands of miles of footpaths running through villages, woods, valleys, former industrial areas and open countryside that receive far less attention.

Some of our favourite walks have come from simply wondering: what’s over there?

The interactive map makes those discoveries much easier to share.

Explore Walks Across All Four Yorkshire Regions

You can use the interactive map to explore the whole collection geographically, but you can also browse our walks by region.

Explore our West Yorkshire Walks for routes through a landscape of valleys, moorland, reservoirs, canals, woodland and historic settlements.

Head to our North Yorkshire Walks to discover routes through another enormously varied part of the county.

Our East Yorkshire Walks explore landscapes including the Yorkshire Wolds, countryside, villages and the East Yorkshire coast.

And our South Yorkshire Walks uncover woodland, reservoirs, countryside, villages and landscapes shaped by the region’s industrial past.

Find Walks You Might Otherwise Miss

One of the biggest advantages of putting our routes on a map is discovery.

If you search for “Yorkshire walks”, you’ll inevitably encounter many of the same famous destinations.

There’s nothing wrong with that – they’re popular for good reason – but they represent only a fraction of what Yorkshire has to offer.

Our map lets you look beyond the obvious.

You might notice a route close to somewhere you regularly drive past, find a village you’ve never visited or discover a walk in a part of Yorkshire you hadn’t previously considered.

You can start with a place rather than the name of a walk.

That’s exactly what we wanted the map to achieve.

More Than Just Walking Routes

A walk is also one of the best ways of discovering Yorkshire itself.

On foot, you notice things you simply don't see from a car.

Old buildings, mills, churches, bridges, waterways, remnants of industry, woodland, wildlife, village streets and pieces of local history all become part of the journey.

That's why our walk guides aren't intended to be turn-by-turn instructions alone.

We want them to help you discover the places you're walking through.

And if a walk inspires you to explore somewhere further, there is plenty more to discover across The White Shire.

Alongside our walking routes, you can explore Yorkshire places and days out through our Attractions section and see what is happening around the county through our What’s On coverage.