[1] Turn right out of the hall and right again past the front of the church to continue ahead along the pavement of Horsemarket and the Market Place. The Market Cross, or Buttermarket is at the junction between the Market Place, Newgate and The Bank. It has been used as a market, town hall and lock-up.
[2] Continue down The Bank, where there are antique shops on both sides. At the lower end where the road turns to become Bridgegate cross over and continue ahead down Thorngate almost to the end. Notice many houses with the small windows close together on the top floors, known as ‘weavers’ windows’, as they gave better light to weavers working there. The large blocks of modern apartments were converted from the former derelict Thorngate Mill.
[3] Cross Thorngate, taking Thorngate Place at the end of which is the lower end of the Demesnes, a public open space. There is a good view downstream of the Tees and the former corn mill ahead.
[4] Turn left and almost immediately turn left again beside a lamp post to enter Bridge Inn Yard (a narrow alley, 'Yard' being the local name for these walled ways) which brings you out under an archway back into Thorngate near the former Coach and Horses Inn. Notice weavers’ windows opposite, particularly nos 19, and 21 “Weft House”, and on your right the present Coach and Horses Yard of holiday accommodation, and Thorngate House.
[5] Continue up Thorngate a short distance to Gray Lane, turn right and follow the lane to the Demesnes. Turn left along the tarmac path in front of the houses, rising until just before the path changes to small stone pavings.
[6] Turn left onto an unsurfaced track used by vehicles, then narrowing to a path between houses, under an arch, and back onto the Bank. This is Cleasbys Yard where houses date back to the 15th century.
[7] Turn right up the Bank to pass Blagraves House restaurant and immediately right again into the next yard, Broadgates, with its name above the arch, and continue ahead to the top end of the Demesnes from under the arch of a former chapel with Wesleyan connections.
[8] Turn left and immediately left again up 5 steps into another narrow yard with St Mary’s church clearly visible to your right. At the end there is a small Z-bend before going under an arch and down 3 steps to The Bank for the last time.
[9] Turn right and follow the pavement up to where it turns right across cobbles in front of the art gallery to reach the church, and turn right again along the church path, with the church to your left. St Mary’s dates from 1130 and has a Norman doorway.
[10] Follow the path round through the churchyard with its avenue of lime trees. On your right a memorial cross commemorating the deaths of 143 people from cholera in 1849. To your left, high on the church wall is the small raised figure of a boar, emblem of the Neville family of Raby. At the T-junction at the end of this path you can see to your right the Demesnes, and the river if the water is high enough.
[11] From the T-junction turn left along another avenue of limes and go ahead to leave the churchyard along a narrow path between buildings to reach Newgate. Cross the road to the left of the barrier and take the Hole in the Wall yard to the right of the car park entrance. The path soon passes under the arch of another building with Wesleyan connections, and the Birch Road entrance to the car park.
[12] Cross the road to the left pavement and at the corner of Queen Street and Birch Road take the narrow Waterloo Yard to your left. At the far end it passes under an archway into Market Place, where you turn right.
[13] Very shortly take the wide archway on your right into Hall Street. After passing the library on your left turn left into a short residential street, right at the corner, and ahead to Queen Street with Smith’s works prominent on the far side.
[14] At Queen Street turn left and almost immediately, on the far side of a small garden with one large tree, turn left down a way signed as having no vehicular access. Continue ahead and slightly to the right across the lower corner of the car park to Star Yard, a well used pedestrian route with shops.
[15] At the far end the yard narrows to pass under an arch into Horsemarket, where you turn right, then take the pedestrian crossing left, and on the far side turn right and continue ahead to the Methodist Church and back to the start.