W23: Swaledale – Moor and Vale - NEW
Leave Station car park 9.15am. Parking on Healaugh Village Green (honesty box) (GR:SE 019 990, What3Words: ///powder.shorts.beaks). Start walk at 10.00am. 12 Miles. Hard. £7
A day of contrasts that will take us into the moors above Swaledale, with their rich lead mining heritage, and along the beautiful river valley of the Swale. Our route takes us up Calver, before dropping down to Surrender Bridge. We follow the flue lines of old smelting mills as we cross Barras Top and descend to the Old Gang Smelting Mill, and evidence of mine workings. Then it’s over the moor and a steady descent to Isles Bridge and along the river path back to Healaugh.
W24: A Sunday Lunch Walk from Carperby - NEW
Leave Station car park 9.45am. Parking behind Wheatsheaf Inn, Carperby DL8 4DF (GR:SE 008 898, What3Words:///mealtime.probing.interacts). Start walk at 10.30am. 6.5 Miles. Easy/moderate. £7
An attractive walk in Wensleydale visiting Aysgarth Falls enroute to the village of West Burton, where we will admire a very different waterfall. Walking on field paths beside the limestone Dove Scar we reach Sorrelsykes Park with its trio of curious follies. A path alongside the River Ure takes us back to Aysgarth Falls. Crossing the old railway line which ran to Hawes, we return on field paths to the ancient village of Carperby for lunch at about 1.45pm in the Wheatsheaf Inn, a traditional Yorkshire pub. Walk participants will be contacted prior to the walk for their pub lunch menu choices which include a traditional Sunday Lunch.
E20: The Restless Coast - Roger Morgan-Grenville
Richmond Town Hall, DL10 4QL| 7.30pm | £10 | Refreshments, bookstall, disabled access
Britain has over 10,000 miles of coastline, steeped in history and constantly shifting and adapting. The Restless Coast is a moving and beautiful account of a journey around it. The author travels the coast to discover its challenges and opportunities, and to talk to the people trying to protect it. After a distinguished army career and success in business, in 2018, Roger took the decision to devote the rest of his working life to the restoration of nature through his writing, public speaking and campaigning. In 2022, he walked 1,000 miles through Britain from Lymington to Cape Wrath, to assess the state of British nature, a story told in Across a Waking Land. The Glasgow Herald has called Roger ‘one of Britain’s leading conservationists’.