Category Archives: Walks

Basic­ally, these boil down to the beach, the sea and a good fish and chip lunch.  And in winter the light is low and inter­est­ing and the beach uncrowded.

For­tu­nately, the National Trust real­ises that you can’t stop people climb­ing on Brim­ham Rocks, unlike the spoilsports at the York­shire Sculp­ture Park (see below).  I’d never been to this nat­ural phe­nomenon before — huge nat­ur­ally sculp­ted rocks, big­ger than Henry … Con­tinue read­ing →

So long since we’d been to the Lakes but at last we made it again.  In the rain, obvi­ously, on the first day, but that meant Sour Milk Gill was a spec­tac­u­lar slash down the hill­side and the step­ping stones … Con­tinue read­ing →

The York­shire Dales on a sunny day.  Orch­ids, cur­lews, lambs etc etc.  Look­ing out over the dale from a high field above West Wit­ton — Castle Bolton to the NW, Pre­ston under Scar to the N, West Wit­ton below.  Patches … Con­tinue read­ing →