Help save Yorkshire’s churches with your weekend walk or bike ride. Visit unique historic buildings, see beautiful countryside, get some exercise and have fun with the family!
Ride+Stride for churches is a sponsored bike ride or walk between churches, exploring and enjoying the towns and countryside of Yorkshire. The money raised helps to repair churches, chapels and meeting houses throughout Yorkshire.
Supported by The National Churches Trust and run by county churches Trusts nationwide, Ride+Stride for Churches opens the doors to some of England’s amazing church buildings.
Save the date: Ride + Stride will take place on Saturday 13 September 2025 , alongside Yorkshire Churches Day, and we’d love to see as many of you as you can take part. https://www.yhct.org.uk/yorkshire-churches-day/
Some churches and people hold a fundraising event to raise money for the YHCT rather than travel between churches. Please do consider this if you can’t take part traditionally.
Sponsorship forms and a guide for participants can be found here:
Ride or stride round the Skirlaugh Group of Churches in North Holdernes
St. Augustines Corner, Church Lane, Skirlaugh, Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, HU11 5EU
- Available anytime
- In person
- Pre-booking not required
Take a leisurely cycle tour around the eight churches in the Skirlaugh benefice
Pick up a leaflet at any of the participating churches and walk or cycle around the route. You can do it all in the day or split it to smaller journeys.
– St. Margaret’s, Catwick Lane, Long Riston HU11 5JT; beautiful Grade II* parish church with origins in the thirteenth century .
– All Saints, Rise Road, Rise. HU115BL; built in 1844-5, reusing some medieval fragments.
– St. Lawrence’s Church, Main St, Sigglesthorne, HU11 5QG; Grade II* listed building on the site of a previous church mentioned in the Doomsday book dating from the late C12th
– St. Michael’s Church, Catwick HU17 5PW; Grade II* listed building built in 1272, on the site of a Saxon Church built prior to the Doomsday Book.
=- St John the Baptist, Bewholme YO25 8EB; built in 1900 by S Walker of Bridlington to seat 90 people
= St Mary’s Church, Swine; a Grade 1 listed building, is the parish church of Swine. a tiny hamlet 5 ml NE of the centre of Hull and seven miles ESE of Beverley. Part of this C12th church is linked to the time of St. Stephen, when a Cistercian Priory was founded here.
– St James Church Ellerby HU11 4JE; a tiny church built in 1889 originally as a mission room to designs by Smith & Broderick of Hull. A bellcot was removed from the building in about 1940.
If you are visiting Ryedale, head to the St Aelred’s Pilgrim Trail and follow a Ride and Stride route visiting three of the famous architect Temple Moore’s churches in Upper Ryedale and Helmsley. More details here: https://www.saintaelredspilgrimtrail.com/post/latest-news
Watch this space for more details of suggested routes
You can donate via our People’s Fundraising site:
How it Works – For Ride + Striders
Download a sponsorship form on which you can indicate the church that you’d like to receive half of the money you raise. Plan your route!
How it Works – For Parishes
If you’d like to take part then please contact generalenquiries@yhct.org and we will list your church on our website.
If you are able to to open up, there are no set hours, we appreciate whatever you can manage.
If at all possible, make sure there is someone on hand to welcome visitors. Some visitors may only stop by briefly, but some will want to look around.
If you can lay on refreshments and organise events (say, a guided tour) then so much the better.
There’s no need to restrict your welcome to Ride+Stride participants and it’s a great opportunity for outreach and raising the profile of your church!