Yorkshire Walks

There is a board by the bridge listing the charges for crossing the rebuilt bridge. The Tees here is fast flowing and boistrous with rocky cliffs rising over it. We crossed the bridge and continued on the Teesdale Way to map ref. NZ115145 to take our photo of the view over Wycliffe to compare with the recently aquired oil painting. Then we retraced our steps for a few hundred metres and turned to follow the path to the cross roads in Whorlton village. At the cross roads we turned left through the village to join the footpath on the north bank of the Tees at map ref. NZ 105147. We followed this path across farmland and through woods for about 5km to Abbey Bridge at map ref. NZ 066149. The cold squally showers were becoming more frequent now so we decided to cross the bridge and return along the Teesdale Way to the car, leaving out the final loop along the north bank of the river to Barnard Castle and back along the paths and lanes south of the river. The whole route had been about 11km and had taken us about 4 hours including our lunch stop on the cliff top to the west of Whorlton with a very pleasant view up the river Tees in the biting wind and squally rain. As you can see from the photos there were some very nice sunny spells in between

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Tolls at the Whorlton Suspension Bridge

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