Since the Yorkshire Dales – or other popular destinations – are understandably still not keen on receiving hordes of visitors, we’ll have another Virtual Walk, and revisit a post written in May 2014, shortly after we returned to England. It’s for Fandango’s Flashback Friday, and for Jo’s Monday walk.
ANOTHER DAY IN THE DALES
Burnsall – Howgill – Middle Skyrehome – Gill’s Laithe – Troller’s Gill – Appletreewick (often pronounced Aptrick locally) – Kail Lane – and Burnsall again
What’s not to like in a walk that passes through places with such enticing names? It was Rosemary who led the Ripon Ramblers yesterday and she’d organised not only a splendid walk with varied Dales scenery, but a warm sunny day too. Here are my picture postcards from the day. Click on the images you’d like to see enlarged, or to have a slideshow.
We crossed over the ancient packhorse bridge at Burnsall to begin our walk. Then we walked along the River Wharfe past farmland, using the Dalesway path. Sometimes we had open views. Here’s the River Wharfe And here’s a view across to the hilltops. A disused ancient limkiln Approaching Trollers Gill Trollers Gill Drystone walls still divide the ancient field boundaries. Northumberland sheep accompanied us along this bluebell-strewn path. A lonely stunted tree. Hawthorns on the skyline. Limestone scree and drystone walls. A view across the Dales … and another … Sheep grazing Those sheep again. A view across a drystone wall. A view glimpsed through hawthorn blossom. Back to the River Wharfe again. Burnsall – our starting and finishing point.
What a wonderful walk, thanks for taking us along.
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Thanks , as ever, for coming.
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Gorgeous scenery
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It is. I miss it.
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This is truly beautiful! I love drystone walls and craggy bits, and the offering of sheep and bluebells in the same shot…well, just gorgeous! Thank you very much, Margaret. Have a lovely weekend 🙂 🙂
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I love your description Jo. ‘Craggy bits’. You can’t say fairer than that. It was a fabulous walk, just as your very different ones are. You too have a great weekend, perhaps with a walk or so?
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Not sure, Margaret. It’s going to be a hot one this weekend so we might save walking till Monday. 😢💕
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You can go off people. It’s supposed to reach the dizzy heights of 11 (11! In May!), but it feels no hotter to me than the 8 it was this morning.
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🤣🏖️💕
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Well, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my Virtual walk, Trotters Gill looks most enticing for a photograph or three! The scenery, the Gill, the old lime kiln- marvellous
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It’s a bit photogenic round there, Sue.
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Certainly is!
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What a delightful day, I enjoyed it.
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Happy memories. These days, even travelling as far away as the Dales counts as an adventure.
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What a wonderful walk – although I would expect nothing less of the Dales! Trollers Gill looks especially enticing 🙂 We’ll be in the area again in August, Covid-willing – can’t wait!
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Oh, hooray! Just Newcastle way, or doing some exploring too?
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We’re spending a week in Newcastle later this month and again hopefully in September, so for August we’re planning a few days in Yorkshire itself to catch up with our friends and hopefully do some exploring 🙂
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I really hope Yorkshire won’t be too crowded now we’re all doing staycations. I’ll be looking out for you!
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Wonderful photos of the County of my birth. Sorry for my absence, I am an avid reader but been having trouble with WordPress, not for the first time!
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Even the bloggers on WP are having some difficulties these days! I’m no techie, but is there anything I can help with?
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What a delightful walk. Love the stone walls. How long (time) did this walk take?
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Well, we were in no way trying to set any kind of record, so with a lazy picnic included, I’m guessing about four hours. It was 7 miles or maybe a bit more.
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Such beautiful and evocative photos. Growing up our whole family were fans of the original BBC’s ‘All Creatures Great and Small’. My sister and I must be part of a significant number of our generation to have been introduced to the stunning Dales watching it although I think it was mostly filmed a bit further north than these photos up Bainbridge way.
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But you’re right. This part of Wharfedale and that part of Wensleydale are not so very different. All pretty delightful, especially when the sun shines, which it isn’t at the moment.
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Hope it brightens up over the weekend.
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Nah. No chance.
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Such wonderful landscapes Margaret. Sort of like around here, but different if that makes sense. Who wouldn’t want to walk to Trollers Gill and see the sheep and bluebells? And such delightful names. Though I have to say that you were certainly fortunate with the weather. How long is this walk then? And how difficult?
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It’s not difficult. A bit of an uphill a couple of times, and from memory, about seven and a half miles. Yes, I’ve often felt your landscape shots are nor unlike those from this area. And the weather was great that day. Decent weather’s a bit thin on the ground at the moment, isn’t it?
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What a beautiful place! And the photographs no less.
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It’s a lovely area, and we’re lucky to have it so relatively nearby.
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Absolutely gorgeous!
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Can’t disagree, Peter 😉
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What gorgeous landscapes. It is so pretty with all the greens 😀
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It is indeed very green in Yorkshire. You’ll have worked out why …
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Such a pleasant walk. Beautiful landscape. Thank you for taking us there, Margaret.
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It’s a landscape I’ll never tire of. Rugged, but with a human face.
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Fabulous photos, Margaret! The scenery is so beautiful.
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It is. Aren’t we lucky?
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Indeed!
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oh this was glorious walking with you, and not surprised to learn caution is the watchword given the variants to the east and south of you.
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Indeed. And where is the biggest hotspot? Bolton. And where do my elder daughter and family live? Bolton. Where is another hotspot? South London. And where does my son and family live? South London. Ah well …
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Yikes for them . . . hopefully the extended vaccination programme will soon start having an impact
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Thank you very much for sharing these beautiful pictures of your walk.
Wishing you a wonderful weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Thanks you so much Klaus. Here’s hoping you enjoyed climbing up and down those hills!
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That looks like a wonderful walk! I could imagine it’s a popular place to visit, but I understand if they don’t want hoards of people visiting just yet. Right now the rain is pouring down heavily here in London – hopefully summer will arrive soon! 😏
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Once you’re up in the hills, you rarely meet anyone. But the car parks, and villages with tea shops … that’s another matter. Yup, rain here too 😦
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I really enjoyed your lovely photos of this beautiful landscape. I always associate bluebells with woodland so it was interesting to see them more out in the open.
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I know! I can’t account for it. Woodland is definitely preferred, though they sometimes creep out beyond the margins. But here, trees were few and far between.
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Nice to know they can thrive even in relatively treeless places …
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Is this why they call it God’s own country? Gorgeous scenery and great pictures. Love those solitary trees.
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Well, did you know that God was spotted walking in the Dales during Lockdown? When challenged, he replied that he was working from home …. I expect he likes the solitary trees – I do too.
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I had missed that.
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Magnificent landscape to go with your walk… simply amazing!
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It’s very special.
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What a delightful walk.
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It really was.
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This was lovely, so different from the landscapes near me. I love those sheep too.
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Yes, I like our local sheep. I imagine drystone walls aren’t a ‘thing’ near you.
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True. It’s nice that I get to travel to your part of the world through your pictures.
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That’s how we all have to travel these days, isn’t it?
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