Skinningrove to Saltburn beach (Cleveland way cliff top walk)

This afternoon Christina and I walked from Skinningrove looking down from the cliff top we were opposite the beach and jetty to Saltburn beach where we briefly stopped before going back the walk is about 7 miles but we walked about 8 where we walked around Saltburn too.

This shows the walk we did although we started from skinningrove walked to saltburn and then walked saltburn to skinningrove before going home:

http://where2walk.co.uk/north_york_moors_coast/coastal_exploring/from-saltburn-to-skinningrove/

Along the walk you can see the guible fan house, it is possible to divert off of the cliff top walk and explore the fan house although the building is derelict and not fantastic aesthetically to look at it is still interesting to look around:

http://www.northseatrail.org/show_single_article.php?article_id=3365&lang=uk

As the article says this was part of the huntcliff ironstone mine, railway is still in use by Cleveland potash coming from boulby mine and transporting steel from Tata steel in carlin how although called skinningrove works:

Find out more out boulby mine:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulby_Mine

Find out about Tata steel general info about the company and statistics : http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tata_Steel_Europe

Find out about skinningrove special works, carlin how who along with cleveland potash at boulby mine use the railway line for transporting goods that goes past guible fan house: http://www.tatasteeleurope.com/en/company/activities/long_products_europe/special_profiles/

More info about skinningrove works (tata steel special works) carlin how:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlin_How

Find out more about the huntcliff ironstone mine:

Pictures of huntcliff ironstone mine:

http://www.mine-explorer.co.uk/mines/Huntcliffe_980/Huntcliffe.asp

Information about the huntcliff ironstone mine:

http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=512948

Information about saltburn by the sea:

http://www.saltburnbysea.com/html/victorian.html

Information about skinningrove:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinningrove

Skinningrove jetty:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/tees/content/articles/2009/03/16/skinningrove_jetty_feature.shtml

As you walk along the cliffs there are  absolutely incredible views of the sea and on the other side of you open countryside on the route you also come across a rather interesting wind chime feature that is very pretty and looks like a charm bracelet:

http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Europe/United_Kingdom/England/North_Yorkshire/Brotton/photo404318.htm

As its now August and summer is actually in full swing there are lots of beautiful wild flowers along the track and there were so many gorgeous butterflies darting about them. If you look out to sea you can watch sea gulls fishing in the sea and boats go past. Today when we did our walk it was lovely and hot but also really, really windy up on the cliff top you have to be quite careful as there are a few places the path passes very close to the cliff edge, not recommendable for people afraid of heights. As we got nearer to saltburn you could quite clearly see what looked like jelly Fish in the water you could clearly see them moving under the water in a jelly fish like way so we're assuming that's what they were a little Internet research indeed makes it seem pretty probable they were indeed jelly fish:

http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/hot-weather-sparks-increase-in-jellyfish-off-county-s-coast-1.1075055

Overall the walk was very interesting and quite pretty and when we got to saltburn we went down the cliff steps by the ship inn and played on the beach for a while before heading back, going back up the cliff steps was a bit steep we then walked back the way we'd come heading back to skinningrove it was a very pleasant walk.