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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5
July 2003
 Reeth town centre on a busy Saturday |
This
morning Vi & I met a group of friends in Reeth at around 10.30.
The weather was quite cloudy but dry. We set off down the main
road to Reeth bridge over Arkle Beck and after about 150m we took
the footpath on the right across the fields to Grinton Bridge
over the River Swale. Here we crossed the road and continued on
the path beside the river Swale for about 800m Here we turned
left up the lane for about 100m and took the path on the right
across the fields to Marrick Abbey. From there we followed a lovely
stone paved path up the edge of Steps Wood to Marrick village.
At the edge of the village we turned left and walked along the
road for about 500m to map ref. SE 073985. We followed the path
across the fields to the road at map ref. SE 065988. We turned
right on to the road and walked up 
the
hill for 400m before turning left on to the path along Fremington
Edge. Just as we had all climbed the stile two cars drove up very
fast and screeched to a halt by the gate. One driver got out and
opened the gate into the adjoining field and the other driver
drove his car up the field again at high speed, well lots of revving.
As we walked up the slope we could see a large hollow used as
a farm dump. The car was standing at the edge of the hole and
with the engine racing - they must have wedged the throttle -
the empty car drove over the edge and crashed into the rubbish
below stalling the engine. No one had the number of the car left
on the road so we had nothing useful to report to the police.
We continued along Fremington Edge to map ref. NZ 035014. Here
we turned left off the ridge to descend the steep zig zag path
towards Castle Farm. Then we followed the bridle way and footpath
back to Reeth Bridge and the town centre. The whole route was
about 14km and took us four and a quarter hours including our
stops. After a cup of tea and a toasted teacake we all drove back
to one of our friend's houses for a barbeque. A great end to the
day.
