After your arrival in Helmsley, if you have not overnighted here, it is certainly worth a look around, and additional information on the walk and the North York Moors National Park can be obtained from the National Park HQ in The Old Vicarage, Bondgate. Today is fairly easy so you could start at lunchtime from Helmsley's Market Square and include a look at Rievaulx Abbey, which is about a half mile detour, and you could also walk another detour to visit The White Horse of Kilburn, a limestone horse created by removing turf from down land. The ‘Big Peak’ of the day is the climb up to Hambleton Hill, about 700 feet of ascent from Nettledale. There are several hamlets at around 10 miles where you could stay for your first night, such as Sutton Bank, Cold Kirby, Hambleton or Kilburn. 