At the foot of the Cleveland escarpment
Ingleby Greenhow
A sheltered stone village where a family-run coaching inn, medieval church and the straight scar of an ironstone railway lead into open moorland.
- Best for
- Moorland walking and railway history
- Give it
- A village visit or a full walking day
- Don't miss
- The old Ingleby Incline climbing the escarpment
The Fox verdict
A quiet base with a dramatic way onto the moors
Ingleby Greenhow pairs a small historic village with a steep industrial route into the open Cleveland landscape.
The Dudley Arms and St Andrew's give the village a rewarding food-and-history pairing, while the old incline turns a stay here into a serious moorland day. Great Ayton's Cook museum and Roseberry Topping add two useful nearby visits without pulling the itinerary far from the northern edge of the North York Moors.
Where to go
Places in Ingleby Greenhow
Every place below is checked against a published source, listed with what it is and how long to give it.
Local signatures
3 placesThe Dudley Arms
A family-run 17th-century stone coaching inn with original beams, two bars, in-house butchered British beef and the attached Café 1756.
- Visit length
- Editorial estimate: around 45 minutes for a café stop
- Locality
- Ingleby Greenhow
Captain Cook Schoolroom Museum
A volunteer-run museum in a 1704 charity-school building, recreating the kind of classroom Captain Cook attended.
- Visit length
- Editorial estimate: around 45 minutes
- Locality
- Great Ayton
Ingleby Greenhow and Easby Village Hall
A community hall rebuilt in 1999 with a stage, meeting room, kitchen, patio, accessible toilet and hearing loop in a peaceful woodland setting.
- Visit length
- Editorial estimate: around 30 minutes
- Locality
- Ingleby Greenhow
Walks & outdoors
1 placeRoseberry Topping
A distinctive 320-metre hill among woodland, grassland, heather moor and a historic quarry, with a four-mile National Trust circuit.
- Visit length
- Editorial estimate: around 2 hours
- Locality
- near Great Ayton
History & heritage
1 placeChurch of St Andrew
A Grade I church with 12th- and 13th-century fabric, herringbone-tooled 18th-century stonework, an unfinished tub font and two recumbent effigies.
- Visit length
- Editorial estimate: around 20 minutes
- Locality
- Ingleby Greenhow
- Access
- Check current church access arrangements before travel.
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Three ways to explore Ingleby Greenhow
Signature outings
Pause at the Dudley Arms
See the original beams and stonework at this family-run coaching inn, which also contains two bars, a restaurant and Café 1756.
Meet Ingleby's medieval church
Look for alternating round and octagonal arcade columns, the unfinished tub font and the two recumbent effigies.
Walk Roseberry Topping
Use the National Trust's four-mile circuit to explore the distinctive hill, its woodland, moor and historic quarry.
The village story
Ingleby Greenhow Village Guide
A village of coaching-inn cooking, medieval stone and an ironstone railway scar beneath the Cleveland escarpment.
A Family Inn at the Village Table
The Dudley Arms is a 17th-century stone coaching inn with original beams, vaulted ceilings and two bars, and it has been in the same family since Craig and Betty Staples bought it in 1969. The Staples family still runs it, and these days it is the only pub in Ingleby Greenhow, which puts a fair amount of weight on the kitchen. Premium British beef is butchered in-house, which shows in a menu that runs from steak pie and fillet Diane through porterhouse, rump, ribeye and club steaks.
Beyond the beef there is the pub's signature crispy flowering onion, Gressingham duck breast in a maple-and-orange sauce, Whitby scampi, Scottish west-coast moules marinière and, to finish, sticky toffee pudding. One visitor, Andrew Horsman, singled out a pint of Wensleydale Brewery's Gamekeeper bitter. The pub keeps cask ale with one beer that changes.
Café Plates and Medieval Stone
Attached to the inn, Café 1756 does a full Dudley breakfast, eggs Benedict, a fresh crab sandwich and moules frites, with dining pods in the outdoor area.
St Andrew's church is Grade I listed and built from the 12th and 13th centuries. The south side of the nave was rebuilt in 1741 in a distinctive herringbone-tooled sandstone. Inside are a late-12th-century arcade with columns that alternate round and octagonal, an unfinished tub font of the same period, and two recumbent effigies: a priest, Willimus Wrelton, who held the living around 1300, and a knight thought to be 15th-century.
From Domesday Fields to Open Moor
The Domesday surveyors folded Ingleby into a combined entry with eight other places, and the figure they left for the village alone is three households. Uhtred was lord here in 1086.
Walking is a major reason to base yourself here. A nine-mile circuit begins beside St Andrew's, allows about four and a half hours, and climbs the old Ingleby Incline to the trackbed of the Rosedale railway before joining the Cleveland Way across open moor. The escarpment climb is steep and there are no toilets once you leave the village; OS Explorer OL26 covers the ground. A separate 7.5-mile circular is also linked by the parish council.
The Incline and the Manor Landscape
That incline was built to link the moor-top ironstone railway with Battersby below. Loaded wagons ran down the roughly one-in-five slope on a steel rope, hauling the empty ones back up; workers were forbidden to ride them, accidents happened all the same, and the line closed in 1929. Its straight scar is still legible on the hillside above the houses.
The other herringbone-tooled building is Ingleby Manor, a 16th- and 17th-century two-courtyard house with a tower and a six-bay Tuscan arcade, set in a landscape that once held separate red- and fallow-deer parks.
Rail Arrival and Cricket Views
The nearest station is Battersby, under a mile from the pub on the Esk Valley Line between Middlesbrough and Whitby. There is no taxi rank and no frequent bus, so arriving without a car takes planning. Stokesley lies four and a half miles west of the village.
The cricket ground sits just outside the village on the Great Broughton road. The club's records start with a match against Swainby in 1843, and in 1896 Chop Gate bowled Ingleby out for a total of zero. From the boundary you look across to Roseberry Topping and Captain Cook's Monument.
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Sources
Every place on this page is checked against a published source. Each entry links the record we used and names who publishes it.
- The Dudley Arms — dudleyarms.co.uk operator, sector body or destination organisation
- Church of St Andrew — historicengland.org.uk statutory register or public authority record not machine-readable; publisher restricts automated access
- Captain Cook Schoolroom Museum — register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk statutory register or public authority
- Roseberry Topping — nationaltrust.org.uk national body or asset manager
- Ingleby Greenhow and Easby Village Hall — inglebygreenhowandeasbyvillagehall.org.uk operator, sector body or destination organisation