This path I found pretty much by accident after having a couple of hours to kill whilst I was at Skinningrove.
The route follows the Cleveland Way mostly with a slight diversion towards the cliffedge and through old mine workings with red iron ore remnants making the place look like another world. This route does involve a rather steep scramble up a grassy hill to get back onto the Cleveland Way on the cliff above.
Park for free by the seaside at Skinningrove here, right by the Repus Boat Sculpture.
Across the beck is our route for today, right up that hill onto the clifftops.
The Repus Boat Sculpture by the carpark.
It begins with a steep climb up a lot of steps to the top of the cliffs.
As always, worth it for the view.
For the next couple of miles it's a fairly level path, some of it along the Cleveland Way.
This pic below gives a good example of the upcoming part of the hike. Travelling below the yellow field and heading below the other fields along the bottom step of the silhouette. Later we'll be climbing up to the top step which is the Cleveland Way and travelling back along that to the yellow field.
What a view.
An important signpost, it is here where we leave the Cleveland Way and head down to Mars, via a lot of Bracken. The path you see to the right will be where we head back down to this very spot.
This shows the condition of the path, very overgrown with Bracken and brambles. Ideally not to be done in shorts, or in Summer!
Following the path, if u can, through the bracken you finally get to this wall, the bracken part is over now!
Standing on the wall we're now in the crater of a former quarry.
Turning left and following a much easier path along the top of this ridges and towards the heather.
A quick look back at where we'd come from and all the bracken we'd walked through.
This path is a lot easier.
Our first view of "Mars".
The red rocks are remnants of the area's ironstone mining history.
With a couple of reminders that there were building in this location but time and erosion have taken their toll.
Wandering along the martion landscape, not getting too near to the cliff edge. This is as far as I got, with a brief glimpse of Staithes peaking out.
With all the exploring competed, time to head up to the Cleveland Way. This is the path, a rather steep grassy/dirt staircase. If you;re not a fan of heights then it's just a case of heading back the way you came.
At the top of the path and we're on the cliff tops of the Cleveland Way. Follow this path back along the cliffs in the direction we came in.
This pic shows the way we came, with the quarry and heather path below.
Keep following the path, it's the Cleveland Way, so well signposted.
Obligatory animal pic, this shrew/mouse/vole was fine and well, they were just playing dead and soon ran off after I got too close.
The path passes by this farmhouse.
Not far after there is a signpost pointing out the path to the right which we take to get back to the cliff edge where we were earlier.
And here is the signpost I mentioned earlier, showing the vague path we took earlier, but not this time, this time we're following the "Skinningrove 1 mile" sign back the way we came.
Such a nice green sea, worthy of the main picture for this page.
Back down the steps.
Instead of heading back to Tiggy, I headed onto the Jetty and took a couple of pics in both directions, and a closeup of the sea.
The other coastal routes: