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Country walk around Blakey
6:26am Saturday 4th September 2010
Two very fine views greet GEORGE WILKINSON as he sets out across the purple heather at Blakey on the North York Moors.
Country walk at Pendle Hill
2:28pm Friday 3rd September 2010
A witch was regarded as a woman who had sold her soul to the devil.
Country walk at Langthwaite
1:06pm Saturday 28th August 2010
George Wilkinson sloshes through a sodden day out from Langthwaite.
Country walk at Whaw in the Yorkshire Dales
1:23pm Saturday 21st August 2010
George Wilkinson visits Whaw in the Yorkshire Dales, where he finds a hard place with some gentle aspects, and a fine stile.
Country walk at Bransdale on the North York Moors
12:53pm Saturday 14th August 2010
George Wilkinson goes in search of the purple stuff with an enjoyable five-mile walk at Bransdale on the North York Moors.
Country walk around Burniston
12:07pm Saturday 7th August 2010
An errand takes GEORGE WILKINSON to Scarborough, so he fits in a quick and inspiration coastal walk at Burniston.
A coastal walk at Saltburn
3:31pm Friday 6th August 2010
IN the mid-1800s, Saltburn was a simple fishing village nestling beneath the high cliffs of Cleveland.
Country walk around Newgate Bank
7:30am Saturday 24th July 2010
GEORGE WILKINSON takes in an exceptional view in a corner of North Yorkshire.
Country walk around Sinnington
2:44pm Saturday 17th July 2010
George Wilkinson strides out from the picturesque village of Sinnington.
Country walk around Goathland
11:26am Saturday 10th July 2010
George Wilkinson manages to give the throng the slip at Goathland.
Glaisdale country walk
3:49pm Wednesday 7th July 2010
IRON ore. The hills and moors around North Yorkshire and Cleveland have been mined for this commodity for thousands of years.
Country walk to Levisham on the North York Moors
4:13pm Thursday 3rd June 2010
Millions of years ago the great seas receded and this district became what we know as land.
Country walk at Riccal Dale
11:40am Monday 24th May 2010
GEORGE WILKINSON enjoys the bluebells and the peace and quiet in the wooded valley of Riccal Dale at Pockley.
Country walk at West Lutton
11:52am Saturday 15th May 2010
George Wilkinson heads to West Lutton in the Wolds for a delightful, woe-free walk.
Country walk around Thornton-le-Dale
3:51pm Saturday 8th May 2010
George Wilkinson stays at home while his navigator leads a walk around the fertile flood plains of Thornton Dale.
Country walk at Great Ayton
4:20pm Thursday 6th May 2010
JAMES Cook was born with the Cleveland Hills towering above him on one side and the North Sea on the other.
Country walk at Forge Valley near Scarborough
11:24am Sunday 25th April 2010
FORGE Valley was refilling with wildlife, like Scarborough down the road with holidaymakers. The ‘V’ shape was greened over in National Nature Reserve quality, in the sunlight and coloured with flowers. Some trees frizzed with new leaves, all under an Icelandic blue sky.
Country walk at Nunnington
12:38pm Saturday 17th April 2010
Powered up with soup from the hall, GEORGE WILKINSON explores the Howardian Hills around Nunnington.
Country walk near Skinningrove
12:07pm Saturday 10th April 2010
Skinningrove may be gritty, but it’s also delightful, finds GEORGE WILKINSON, and the views are fabulous.
Country walk around Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal
4:40pm Thursday 1st April 2010
ON a cold autumn day in the year 1132, a small group of monks from the Benedictine Abbey in York and one from Whitby left their abbeys to begin a more strict way of monastic life of the Cistercian order. They were taken in by the Archbishop of Ripon who was sympathetic to their cause.
Country walk at Carlton in the Yorkshire Dales
10:19am Monday 22nd March 2010
GEORGE WILKINSON finds great views all round at Carlton in the Yorkshire Dales as he sets off on a rewarding six miles.
A short walk at Kilburn
9:59am Tuesday 16th March 2010
THE White Horse of Kilburn doesn't gallop across the south western escarpment of the North York Moors, it looms, especially when you’re at its car park and it's there above you, thick and headless.
Country walk at Mickleby near Whitby
4:37pm Saturday 6th March 2010
GEORGE WILKINSON braves the rain at Mickleby, near Whitby, as he enjoys a symmetrical little circuit of a walk.
Country walk from Sandsend to Kettleness
3:25pm Friday 5th March 2010
Brian Beadle enjoys a coastal walk from Sandsend to Kettleness.
A wander around Wetwang in the Yorkshire Wolds
11:14am Monday 1st March 2010
Wetwang, well that’s a name for a ridge village in the dry Wolds. There is a pond and a couple of inns and there is academic and other discussion as to what a wang is or rather, what a wang was.
Pickering country walk
1:42pm Saturday 20th February 2010
GEORGE WILKINSON sets out from the super and buzzing market town of Pickering for six very enjoyable miles skirting the North York Moors National Park.
Kildale
8:40am Saturday 13th February 2010
KILDALE, both the valley and the village, are well enclosed by the Cleveland Hills and all was drizzle and mists, with rubbed out skylines and blunted conifers. So, first things first, the admirable Glebe Cottage Tea Rooms are open from 11.30am till 4.30pm all week, bar Thursday.
Country walk: looking for Julius Caesar in the Yorkshire Dales
2:28pm Thursday 4th February 2010
ON a dark December day in 1759, a young mother slipped on the ice in a Yorkshire street and died from her injuries.
Slingsby
10:11am Saturday 23rd January 2010
George Wilkinson savours the wonders of winter during a day out at Slingsby.
Kirkbymoorside
8:00am Saturday 16th January 2010
A heavy fall of snow sees GEORGE WILKINSON having to set out from Kirkbymoorside, but he’s not complaining – especially as white winters are so rare.
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