The biggest day: 20 miles rated as strenuous.  Early start from our B&B Park House.  First up, a climb through a wood to the Cleveland Way and up to Becon Hill, the first of five moors (aka hills) we walked around or over that day.

Then it was up and over Carlton Moor – steep walk with views back over the Vale of Mowbray – all those fields we crossed the previous day!  

At moor number three we had a choice – up and over or around – and we chose to go around the next three.  After that, a break for lunch, and the up ANOTHER moor to Carr Ridge and a gradual rise from there to our highest point.  Then it was down to a windy former railway level crossing (Bloworth Crossing) for the old iron ore railway on the moors.  

At this point it was still 5 miles to the Lion Inn on Blakey Ridge, our stop for the night. So from there it was a 2 hour slog across the old railway bed into the wind to get to the Lion Inn.  Cruelly, when you get there, you can’t see it, and the pathway goes up, seemingly to nowhere!

But we made it.  It was a very quiet group for dinner.  But the end of the walk is so close by then you can taste it!

Photos to come😀