Putting this under Dales as its a walk from my AA "50 walks in the Yorkshire Dales" book. Driving to the more southerly carpark of Fountains Abbey yesterday in fab sunshine, it was full apart from disabled spaces, so had to park in the main carpark further North at Fountains-thankfully not full up-and walk back down the narrow roads
starting the walk proper, I finally left the road to follow a bridleway. A view of Fountains
through a farmyard
through woods
an archway with a PROW going into the Fountains estate......does this mean you can get FREE access to the NT Fountains estate? I must check.....
Markenfield Hall is at the back of this gatehouse.....apparently the gatehouse is "phoney" ie 200 yrs younger than the hall!
smelly oil seed rape, thankfully the wind blew the smell away, instead I got the manure smell
Strait Lane was nice..........I passed a bees nest in a tree right by the path, I blundered through the bees before I realised....thankfully didn't get stung. Took a pic but the bees just didn't show at all, so deleted it.
think this is the first Ramsons I saw this year?
xmas trees
first bluebells this year
Lesser/Greater Stitchwort (?).....used to know without checking.
How Hill Tower
a big [censored]
a building in the Fountains estate
Violets
6.5 miles or so walk, the last bit was tedious roadwalk, all the more so as I had to walk all the way back to the main carpark, as the lower one had been full. Wont do this one again, though it did have some decent bits. Back at the carpark/visitor centre, consoled myself with a huge chocolate ice cream, at £3.15 think its the priceiest I ever bought, but the car parking was free!