Sunday 14 November 2004
Oak Dale, Osmotherley, Scarth Nick circuit.
North York Moors
Map: OS Explorer OL26 North York Moors, Western area at 1:25000

Looking south from the view point at map ref. SE 453977

It was fine, cold and sunny morning and Vi & I drove up through Hawnby to the car park below Black Hambleton near Osmotherley at map ref. SE 480958. From the car park we followed the Cleveland Way down Oak Dale, past the reservoirs to Osmotherley, where there was the usual chaos with car parking. We continued along the Cleveland Way above Arncliffe Wood to Scarth Nick at map ref. NZ 472001. Here we walked along the road, back towards Osmotherley, for a few hundred metres to Cod Beck at map ref. SE 471994. We crossed the beck on the footbridge to climb the hill and follow the track, called High Lane on the map, round the edge of the woods above Cod Beck reservoir to the road at map ref. SE 473973, and followed the road back to the car park. The whole route was about 12km and took us three and a half hours including our short lunch stop.

Oak Dale from the Cleveland Way The war memorial in Osmotherley	Another Scots Pine - I just love the shapes and textures of them
Another view south from map ref. SE 453977	A texel tupp wearing his sire harness. It holds a coloured dye block to mark the rump of each ewe he mounts.
Approaching Arncliffe Wood	Path in Arncliffe Wood
Path in Arncliffe Wood	BT relay station above Arncliffe Wood
The Cleveland Hills from Arncliffe Wood	The Cleveland Hills from Scarth Wood Moor
Ford across Cod Beck	High Lane - a stoney track at map ref. SE 472980

Looking south from the view point at map ref. SE 453977

BT relay station above Arncliffe Wood