Quote: Originally posted by ldpdmp on 25/5/2012Just be aware that the ring road round York can be busy. Why it is not a dual carriageway is a mystery to all and sundry. We shall be negotiating it with the caravan tomorrow morning. Let's hope all is clear.
coming from the A1 wont need to touch the york ring road just pass by on the A64 i guess your heading down the A19 then the ring road is on your journey :)
Quote: Originally posted by newtothislark on 24/5/2012
Is this still going to be the best route on a Friday at 5pm Bank Holiday weekend or will I be better off going further up the M1 ?
Phil
I would not like to try to find an alternative route by going further North up the A1/M1 as you would need to go all the way up to Middlesborough and then come back south as the route through Helmsley is not possible because of caravans being banned at one point on the route. Mddlesborough would mean an extra 35 miles and I the road from there into Whitby has one or two very unpleasant moments with a caravan on the back plus I would have thought that middlesborough will be just as crammed as York. Expect to have a hold up of at least an hour as you come to the end of the duel carriageway at York and the queue will go on for several miles after that point and then suddenly free up.
------------- Bill
For a licence dated 1997 or later you must add together the plated max weight of the caravan and trailer, if the total is 3500 or less you can tow it. You may even tow a caravan with a MAM greater than the cars unladen mass the restriction was removed in 2013
If I were you i would not go anywhere near york or the A64 on that day, it will be nose to tail all the way to malton and possibly further. why not go M1/A1 link up the A1 to Dishforth interchange then across via Stokesley, its a good road and should not be too busy, this is the route i always take. J x
Quote: Originally posted by paul at julie on 25/5/2012
If I were you i would not go anywhere near york or the A64 on that day, it will be nose to tail all the way to malton and possibly further. why not go M1/A1 link up the A1 to Dishforth interchange then across via Stokesley, its a good road and should not be too busy, this is the route i always take. J x
i think i may try that one myself one day is only an extra 16 miles to the journey so as long as the A1 is clear on a bank holiday it would be worth trying
learn something new everyday
Quote: Originally posted by arc systems on 25/5/2012
Interesting this as we are finally off to nearly Whitby, Flask Inn, in the morning, should have been there today but best laid plans and all that?
Clue, don't leave fitting two new tyres till last minute but if you do, at least make sure you tell them the correct size!
we stay at the site behind the flask inn sometimes grouse hill really nice site love the area around there some lovely walks
Quote: Originally posted by Brownie73 on 26/5/2012
we stay at the site behind the flask inn sometimes grouse hill really nice site love the area around there some lovely walks
We have been coming here, Wally's we call it, since a little after he opened in 1978, Mum and Dad ran a few CC rallies here. Kids still remember when me came across a slow worm while walking on the sheep trails in the valley below the site, my eldest is now 36!!!!
Changed a bit since then but still retains the laid back style I like, Son Andrew and Wife Caroline now run it but Wally is active 'still cutting the grass' aged 84 now!
Love the walk down through Boogle Hole and onto the beach, then round the headland up to Robin Hoods Bay, a few beers and if you have any sense, a taxi back to site, or perhaps a last one in the Flask!
Sadly chucked it down on site today, went into Whitby shopping only to find it bathed in warm sunshine!
PS, as for routes here, avoid the A64, trusted the sat-nav for the first time without checking route on a map....never again?...
...over four hours to get here for just 134 miles, most of that, I reckon on that A64 footpath!!!
We will be going up that way but we will not be leaving until after 7 as the bottle neck on a64 from dual so single carriageway is horrendous.
What day are you returning because traffic in reverse is equally as bad!!!
Tomorrow morning Simon, but now with map in hand, via the A614, then straight across the M62 onto the M18
What I'm thinking is to cut Bridlington out, head out of Scarborough on the A64, then quickly take the B1249 down to Driffield picking the A614 up there?
Don't though know if this road is entirely suitable for towing and it would be just as easy through brid..?
I'm sort of hoping most of the traffic will be heading in rather than going home?!
i just came down the a64 from york and it was clear at the end of the duel carriageway but the volume of traffic on there it wont be like that for long A1 north was busy tho bet that would not take much to block up
were going in the morning too hope to miss the worst of it
I'm sorted, leaving the van here! gentle drift home now returning on the 22nd
Regards the B1249, there's a big hill!, going to check that out on the way home?
Interesting comment by the site owners, they avoid the A64 like the plague!, preferring A614 or down to the A62/M62 via Beverley which is the way I come if using the Humber bridge, nice easy route that if you avoid Beverley itself skirting east via Woodmansey.
Quote: Originally posted by jvh100 on 28/6/2011
On the A64 just past the A1237 there is a large layby with a proper cafe where you can get refreshments etc.
Your on about the Highwayman, and it's named like that for for a reason.
At least Dick Turpin wore a mask.
------------- Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Winston Churchill. 21st August 1940
Well flew home without the van, plenty of traffic but moving very smoothly, just one really nasty tail back we passed, this was east bound at a busy island about 14miles up the A614 from the M62, however this was at midday so early birds will avoid it I'm sure.
Regards the B1249 cut through from Driffield too Scarborough, yes it's a big hill and there are a couple of others!, but it's a good width well maintained road so nothing a modern car cannot cope with. Proof I think was the amount of caravans going this way, dozens passed us so obviously a popular route.
Once into Scarborough, I'd say up to Whitby is a 30-40 minute breeze
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Topic: Manchester to Whitby
gentle drift home now returning on the 22nd 
