Lyke Wake Walk

Lyke Wake Walk
Live Moor: looking west across Scugdale towards Near Moor (left of centre, mid-distance) and the start on Scarth Wood Moor (at centre, on the horizon)
Length	40 mi (64 km)
Location	North Yorkshire, England
Designation	Long-distance footpath
Trailheads	Scarth Wood Moor, Osmotherley Beacon Howes/Ravenscar
Use	Hiking
Highest point	Botton Head, Urra Moor, 1,489 ft (454 m)
Lowest point	Scugdale Beck, 410 ft (120 m)
Difficulty	Moderate to strenuous
Season	Year round
Hazards	Bad weather

The Lyke Wake Walk is a 40-mile (64 km) challenge walk across the highest and widest part of the North York Moors National Park in North Yorkshire, England. The route remembers the many corpses carried over the moors on old coffin routes and the ancient burial mounds encountered on the way; the name derives from a lyke, the corpse and the wake - watching over the deceased. Its associated club has a social structure, culture and rituals based on the walk and Christian and folklore traditions from the area through which it passes.