The longest day of our hike, 25 miles from Richmond across the flat Vale of Mowbray to Osmotherley, on the first slope of the Yorkshire Moors, passing richly productive farmland
1 RICHMOND TO OSMOTHERLEY
2 Richmond is at the eastern end of the Dales. From here we walk a flat 23 miles across the Vale of Mowbray to the base of the North Yorkshire Moors near Ingleby Cross.
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13 We cross a lot of cultivation in this segment
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24 Our first break is at Bolton-on-Swale
25 Bolton-on-Swale: reputed home of a 169-year-old man
26 The Maryland Colony in the New World began here
27
28
29
30
31 Ivy-covered trees
32
33
34
35
36 A break at Danby Wiske
37
38
39
40 This honor box is a freezer chest running on a farm we cross, serving ice cream and cold sodas
41
42 I don't know what this is doing here either
43 Near Wray House, we cross a major railway
44
45 Canola appears once more. It likes the sunnier climate near the North Sea coast.
46
47 At Ingleby Cross we divert south to Osmotherley
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55 Osmotherley
56 The central square. Our dining spot is the place with the umbrellas.
57
58 I'm all by myself at 32 South End
59 The propritor keeps bees, so there are three kinds of honey for breakfast
