Ingram Valley to Wooler - 4 March 2023 Do you want to read something that nobody has ever seen before? Have a look at the next paragraph, it was written by an artificial intelligence chat app after I had typed in the words "walking in Wooler", it was supposed to be "walking to Wooler" but it kept trying to tell…
Reeth to Richmond - 18 February 2023 A month after our last visit to Wensleydale in the Yorkshire Dales where we finished in Leyburn, we are back again but a little further north into Swaledale, where all routes come together, well at least for us anyway. We are walking west to east again, this time from Reeth to Richmond although…
Great Ayton to Guisborough - 4 February 2023 Shiver me timbers, what do pies and Captain Cook have in common? Answer: They can both be found in Great Ayton. Well, a statue of Captain Cook can be found, the man himself only went to school there, he lived on Aireyholme Farm about 1.5 miles from Great Ayton. The 10-mile route…
Aysgarth to Leyburn - 21 January 2023 This was supposed to be a Leyburn to Aysgarth Falls Hotel day out but it seems that the hotel is currently closed until March for refurbishment. So it's the other way round and we are going to finish in Leyburn. For the short walk of the three planned routes, it just means reversing…
Harwood Gate to Rothbury - 7 January 2023 Our first walk of 2023 is from the Harwood Forest area to Rothbury although only one of the routes is heading for the woods. Harwood Forest is a huge, (8,720 acres) conifer plantation located to the south of Rothbury in North Northumberland and is managed by Forestry England. The forest occupies moorland…
Seahouses to Embleton - 10 December 2022 Well, it's the last one of the year. Hasn't it come around really quickly, there we were walking through the winter and all of a sudden it was spring and then summer. All those walks in the sunshine and then into a long Autumn and now you can feel the start of winter…