Falling Foss and May Beck

An easy woodland walk beside Little Beck to a waterfall and a tea garden in the trees.

Photo: T Eyre, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Geograph

From the May Beck car park, follow the beck downstream through the forest. The path stays close to the water, crossing footbridges and passing pools and small cascades, to reach Falling Foss and the Midge Hall tea garden after about a mile and a half.

Continue downstream a short way to see The Hermitage, a shelter hollowed out of a single boulder in 1790, then return along the forest track on the other side of the valley for a change of scenery.

The walk is gentle but the paths are muddy in wet weather. The tea garden is open in the warmer months; check before relying on it.

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Path from May Beck to Falling Foss, Sneaton