17 miles rated as a long moderate walk.

Slightly later start as we waited for the mini bus back to Bolton.  Time to explore historic St Mary’s, with it’s monument to England’s oldest man Henry Jenkins who allegedly died at 169.  Record keeping in the 1700s perhaps wasn’t as accurate as now!

First stop was the village of Danby Wiske – the lowest point of the walk, a small village with a green and a pub.  After a coffee stop, lots of walking across fields and small roads (and more fields…) until the psychological and physical barrier of the A19 – we crossed this major motorway on foot!  Local businesses are petitioning for a footbridge as the estimate is 10,000 people a year do the C2C but for now it’s a dash across four lanes of busy traffic.  Then a shortish walk to our B&B – Bev, the landlady greeted us with a glass of bubbles on arrival😀 and there was roast chicken for dinner, complete with Yorkshire pudding.

 

Booting up outside Pottergate B&B in Richmond.  
 
One of the many fields we crossed.

   

The memorial tablet for Henry Jenkins in St Mary’s at Bolton.