frank'sYORKSHIRE WALKS
My Walking Diary
These Diary pages are just a few notes and pictures of the routes I walk. I hope that they give you some ideas for walks of your own and if you need more details of a particular route you can use the route request form to contact me
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8
May 2003
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I
went into York this lunch time to pick up a friend and we drove
through Stamford bridge, up Garrowby Hill to Huggate on the Yorkshire
Wolds. It was a fine sunny day and we parked on the edge of the
village at map ref. SE 877551. We set off at about 1.00pm and
walked down the village street to the footpath at map ref. SE
882559 down Cow Dale. After almost a kilometer we turned right
down Oxlands Dale and Shortlands dale to emerge on to the road
at map ref. SE 902554. We crossed the road and continued on the
path along the field boundaries. A large bird of prey got up from
the field to our left and we soon recognised it by its long straight
tail and scimitar wings as a peregrine falcon- a rare sight indeed
for me. At map ref. SE 918558 there was a huge forklift truck
maneuvering large bags of fertilizer into a stockpile and we turned
right here on to a 
track
down the side of Freshfields Farm. We crossed the road and continued
on the path for about 600m to join a bridleway at map ref. SE
917545. We followed the bridleway to map ref. SE 896545, where
we joined the Minster Way. Farming on the wolds is on a huge scale
but the fields along this path were particularly vast with a wide
grassy track (about 4m) along the field edge to accommodate the
massive machinery needed to work these enormous spaces. There
was a huge tractor parked at one point (with the keys in the ignition).
It had double wheels front and back, an enormous bulbous bonnet
over the engine and a disc harrow over 10m wide hanging off the
back. After about 2km (and only two fields!) we reached a minor
road, Mill Lane, and turned right to follow the road back into
the village and up to our starting point. The whole route was
about 10km and took us three and a half hours to walk with no
significant stops.
