More practice!

As we had a free weekend we decided to head up to the North York moors for a bit more practice for walking the wall as it is getting close in terms of getting an opportunity to get some more serious practice in! So on the Saturday we headed to The Bridestones on the edge of the Dalby Forest where we managed to fit in a walk of about 11 or so miles on a round walk to the Bridestones, see below!


One of the Bridestones which is looked after by the National Trust.

We then drove over to Ravenscar, the town that never was, in the early 1900's developers bought the land and set out plots ready to sell to build a town to rival Scarborough, however due to several factors, like the fact you can't get to the beach due to cliffs and severe erosion it was never built, although there are some tell tale signs like bit's of roads and pavements and the brickwork's which was going to be used to build the town! After stopping for a nice cup of tea in the tea shop we managed to walk another 3 or so miles walking down to the disused brick works and the Alum works which made and interesting end to the day.

On the Sunday we took it a bit easier with a 7 1/2 mile walk out from where we were staying over Bransdale moor, which apart from being very windy on the top of the moor and quite busy with Land Rover and motorcycles on discover Yorkshire trails, it was still an interesting walk and near the end we spotted a yellow skunk cabbage on the edge of a woodland which was in flower.


Yellow Skunk Cabbage.