The Cleveland Way runs for over one hundred miles around three sides of the North Yorkshire Moors National Park. Starting at Helmsley in the Vale of Pickering, the route runs west to the scarp of the Hambleton Hills at Sutton Bank and then north to Osmotherly before turning east along the ridge of the Cleveland Hills to the sea at Saltburn and then following the dramatic coastline south, past Whitby, Robin Hood's Bay and Scarborough, to Filey.

This book provides a full and detailed description of the route accompanied by 1: 25,000 Ordnance Survey maps marked with points of interest along the route. There is information on geology, land use, wildlife and features of historical or archaeological interest as well as a "Useful Information" section giving details of public transport and other facilities along the route.

National Trail Guides are published in association with the Countryside Agency, the body responsible for setting up and maintaining these long-distance walking routes in England.