Paddleboarding spots in North Yorkshire
57 launch spots across North Yorkshire
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LakeScriven put-in
North Yorkshire, EnglandCalmwater Bay is a private lake in a former quarry off Boroughbridge Road, just west of Scriven near Knaresborough. A small, volunteer-run waterski and wakeboard club uses the site and also offers self-launch paddleboard sessions, bookable by members and newcomers through taster sessions.
SeaScarborough Harbour slipway
North Yorkshire, EnglandScarborough Harbour lies in the town's South Bay below the castle headland and opens onto the North Sea. This slipway sits on the harbour's east side, close to the marina and the harbour coastline, and is used for launching small craft.
SeaScarborough Harbour slipway
North Yorkshire, EnglandScarborough Harbour lies in the town's South Bay, enclosed by the West, Vincent and East piers below the castle headland, and opens onto the North Sea. This slipway sits on the harbour's west side and is used for launching small craft.
SeaPaddy's Hole slipway
North Yorkshire, EnglandThis slipway launches into Paddy's Hole, a small harbour and lagoon built from slag at South Gare, on the south side of the River Tees mouth near Warrenby. It is tidal, with boats left aground in the mud at low water, and is noted as a calmer alternative to the open beach when there is onshore swell.
SeaRedcar put-in
North Yorkshire, EnglandThis is an informal put-in on Redcar's sandy beach on the North Sea coast, close to the Royal Slipway and the RNLI lifeboat station on the Esplanade. Tees Bay runs from the South Gare breakwater at the Tees mouth south past Redcar to Saltburn.
RiverNun Monkton put-in
North Yorkshire, EnglandNun Monkton stands at the confluence of the River Ouse and River Nidd, about 13km northwest of York. This slipway on the village's west bank gives access to the Ouse, which remains navigable for river traffic for many miles from this point.
CanalLittlethorpe put-in
North Yorkshire, EnglandThe Ripon Canal runs 2.3 miles with three locks from Ripon Basin to its junction with the River Ure at Oxclose Lock, passing near Littlethorpe. The Canal and River Trust manages the canal and its locks, and paddlers need a CRT waterways licence or British Canoeing/Paddle UK membership to use it.
CanalLittlethorpe put-in
North Yorkshire, EnglandThe Ripon Canal runs 2.3 miles with three locks from Ripon Basin to its junction with the River Ure at Oxclose Lock, passing near Littlethorpe. The Canal and River Trust manages the canal and its locks, and paddlers need a CRT waterways licence or British Canoeing/Paddle UK membership to use it.
RiverLinton-on-Ouse put-in
North Yorkshire, EnglandThe River Ure becomes the River Ouse a short way upstream of here, at Willow Hole where Ouse Gill Beck joins. The put-in sits by Linton Lock, an 18th-century lock with its own cut and landing that bypasses a weir on the navigation towards York.
SeaLifeboat Slipway
North Yorkshire, EnglandThis slipway sits beside Redcar Lifeboat Station on the Esplanade, launching onto the open North Sea coast of Tees Bay. Because the coast here is exposed, the RNLI launches its lifeboats with a purpose-built tractor rather than from a fixed ramp into sheltered water.
RiverKirby Hall put-in
North Yorkshire, EnglandThis stretch of the River Ure runs between Great and Little Ouseburn, part of the Canal and River Trust's Ure Navigation, which requires a waterways licence. Kirby Hall is a historic estate and civil parish beside the river here, recorded since the Domesday Book, and names the surrounding land rather than the water.
SeaRunswick Bay Rescue Boat slipway
North Yorkshire, EnglandThis slipway launches onto the North Sea at Runswick Bay, immediately next to the Runswick Bay Rescue Boat station. OpenStreetMap marks the way as private access, consistent with a working launch for the rescue boat rather than a public put-in.
SeaRunswick Bay slipway
North Yorkshire, EnglandThis slipway launches onto the North Sea at Runswick Bay, close to the Runswick Bay Rescue Boat station. The independent rescue service, re-formed in 1982 after the RNLI moved its lifeboat away in 1978, now runs a rigid inflatable from the former tractor shed.
SeaStaithes Beck slipway
North Yorkshire, EnglandThis slipway sits a short distance from Seaton Garth in Staithes, launching onto Staithes Harbour where Staithes Beck meets the sea between the village's cliffs. As at the neighbouring slipway, the Staithes Harbour Commissioners maintain navigation and dredging within the harbour and beck.
SeaSeaton Garth slipway (Staithes)
North Yorkshire, EnglandThis slipway launches onto Staithes Harbour at Seaton Garth, the flat harbourside land below the cliffs where Staithes Beck meets the sea. The Staithes Harbour Commissioners hold statutory powers to dredge the harbour and beck and to regulate navigation there.
LakeGivendale put-in
North Yorkshire, EnglandGivendale Lake is a small lake near Ripon, close to the hamlet of Givendale, with a mapped slipway on its shore. No governance, ownership or public-access information for the lake could be verified beyond its name and boundary on OpenStreetMap.
LakeGivendale put-in
North Yorkshire, EnglandGivendale Lake is a small lake near Ripon, close to the hamlet of Givendale. This node marks a second mapped access point roughly 100 metres from another slipway on the same lake shore. No governance, ownership or public-access information for the lake could be verified.
SeaRobin Hood's Bay slipway (Way Foot)
North Yorkshire, EnglandThis is the cobbled slipway known locally as Way Foot, at the bottom of Robin Hood's Bay village, launching directly onto the sea in the bay of the same name. The OSM element marks the slip as tidal and flood-prone, and it was historically used to launch the village lifeboat.
SeaRobin Hood's Bay slipway (Way Foot)
North Yorkshire, EnglandThis slipway is on the coastline at Robin Hood's Bay village, close to the historic Way Foot slip at the foot of the village, launching onto the sea in Robin Hood's Bay. The foreshore here is a mix of sand and rock platform typical of this stretch of the North Yorkshire coast.
SeaBoggle Hole slipway (Mill Bank)
North Yorkshire, EnglandThis slipway is at the seaward end of Mill Bank, a lane that drops steeply from the Bridge Holm Road car park to the shore near Boggle Hole, on the southern arc of Robin Hood's Bay. The lane's tarmac gives way to stone setts that form a slipway onto a foreshore of sand, boulders and wave-cut rock platform, with the sea reaching the base of the lane at high tide.
SeaFiley seafront slipway (south of Coble Landing)
North Yorkshire, EnglandThis is a slipway on Filey seafront, about 300 metres south of Filey Coble Landing, leading onto the sand of Filey Bay. OSM records no charge for using the slipway itself, though the original harvested name 'Filey put-in' did not distinguish it from the other access points nearby.
SeaFiley seafront slipway (north of Coble Landing)
North Yorkshire, EnglandThis slipway lies on Filey's northern seafront, roughly 500 metres north of Filey Coble Landing and short of Filey Brigg, launching onto Filey Bay. Filey Brigg, the rocky headland further north, gives the bay some shelter from northerly winds but leaves it exposed to easterly and southerly weather.
SeaFiley Coble Landing (north slipway)
North Yorkshire, EnglandThis node marks the northern part of Filey Coble Landing, about 170 metres north of the main slipway node, on Filey seafront where it launches into Filey Bay. OSM records it as part of the Coble Landing way, the traditional launch point for the town's fishing cobles and around two dozen leisure craft.
SeaFiley seafront slipway (Filey Park)
North Yorkshire, EnglandThis slipway sits on Filey's southern promenade near the area OSM labels Filey Park, about 600 metres south of Filey Coble Landing, giving access to the sands of Filey Bay.
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