A guest appearance by Eamon driving the coach was a good start to the day. It was good to see his cheery smile. He dropped us off in Cropton where we finished last time. The paths today were good and mostly dry passing through farming country and typical North Yorkshire villages with wide grass verges lined by stone cottages.
Our first stop was Appleton-le-Moors for lunch.
This was particularly interesting for me as my sister used to own a hotel here at the time called Dweldapilton Hall. This has now been renamed Appleton Hall and is now a private residence. It is a lot grander looking than I remember and has had a lot of work done on the garden.
We also had time to visit the church which has beautiful stained glass panels and a rose window.
Our next stop was Hutton-le-Hole, a popular spot in the summer but very quiet on this occasion. Several places to buy ice cream, a cup of tea or just to sit on the village green and rest a while.
The A and B parties both arrived here at the same time walking in different directions! My book describes the next part of the walk as 'an intricacy of of footbridges and small fields' which was an accurate description.
As we made our way to Gillamoor Keith gave a brief oration as we prepared to climb upwards through the woods.
Gillamoor is an even smaller village and we left the Tabular Hills walk here and continued across the fields to Kirbymoorside with plenty of time for refreshments before leaving for home.
You might be thinking 'why has she taken a photo of a haystack?' Well just think how long it is since you last saw a rectangular bale of hay. These days they are usually large round bales that certainly can't be stacked neatly in a field. There must be a farmer round here that is still using old equipment....good for him!
And did we stay dry? Well yes we did, it didn't start raining until we were on the journey home.
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