This is my last walking article because I am leaving to concentrate on my passion for writing books. I find there is just not time to do both. I hope you have enjoyed my monthly walks as much as I have enjoyed writing them.
This month, we take a ride from Ryedale across to the great farmlands of the Yorkshire Wolds and as you cycle along the bed of Pickering Lake, you will see a large concrete structure, Knapton Silo, a well-known landmark owned by Boormalt, the fifth largest maltster in the world.
THIS is a truly delightful book, a riot of colour on every page.
As we take a walk around Scarborough we will meet a rather strange character, Dickey Dickenson. For a fee he would let you have a drink, not to quench your thirst but to cleanse your bowels!
Ridges, rivers, gentle rounded hills, relaxed rolling countryside, pretty villages, ruined castles and the magnificent architecture of Castle Howard. All these features can be found in the Howardian Hills.
In the middle of the nineteenth century mining was big business in the Yorkshire Dales. Lead was mined in several areas and none were more prolific than the mines around Swaledale and Arkengarthdale.
This month we continue our journey along the Yorkshire Coast to Ravenscar for afternoon tea at the Raven Hall Hotel.
IN the 18th century in the fertile Vale of Pickering, a rather strange crop was being grown, a crop which caused much controversy depending how near to York you lived. This crop was tobacco.
IN the medieval period England was divided into religious parishes, the parishioners being served by the Mother Church, where all burials were to be held, smaller churches, sometimes called Daughter Churches were not allowed to inter the dead.
If you walk in a straight line from Malton to Flamborough you will have walked over soil which is scattered with the bones of dead men.
