Tag Archives: Walking in Yorkshire

Day 8 Swale Way

Posted on June 12, 2025 by craftycreeky

Today we reached the source of the River Swale, we have walked from one end to the other, over 70 miles in total! I’m back home and feeling a bit more human after a long bath!! Last night we stayed … Continue reading →

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Day 7 Swale Way

Posted on June 11, 2025 by craftycreeky

Today we walked about 12.5 miles from Reeth to the hamlet of Keld at the top of swaledale. It was a hot day so despite suntan lotion, my arms are a little pink this evening. The first half if the … Continue reading →

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Day 6 Swale Way

Posted on June 10, 2025 by craftycreeky

Today was hard, we walked 12 miles from Richmond to Reeth. We usually average 2 miles an hour including regular breaks, today a lot of it was about q mile sn hour as the terrain was do difficult. We had … Continue reading →

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Day 5 Swale Way

Posted on June 9, 2025 by craftycreeky

We’ve had an easier day today, thanks to the extra 4 miles we walked yesterday, we walked 7 miles from Bolton on Swale to the town of Richmond. My friend and I usually find shorter walks take almost as long … Continue reading →

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Day 4 of Swale way

Posted on June 8, 2025 by craftycreeky

We’ve had a good start today, we were planning to walk 9 miles from the village of Maunby to Great Langton, but we felt ok after that so we walked an extra 4 miles to Brompton on Swale. It means … Continue reading →

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The Swale Way; Days 2 and 3

Posted on June 7, 2025 by craftycreeky

Tomorrow we start the final bit of our Swaledale walk, about 50 miles over five days. We did two 10 mile sections as day walks, here’s a few photos… Day 2 was Brafferton to Thirsk. There was a fair bit … Continue reading →

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Swale Way; Day 1

Posted on April 15, 2025 by craftycreeky

Each year my friend and I try and do a long distance walk, last year we did the Yorkshire Wolds Way, this year we have decided to do the Swale Way which follows the River Swale from it’s end where … Continue reading →

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Yorkshire Wolds Way Part 3

Posted on June 19, 2024 by craftycreeky

When we woke on day six of our walk, the first thing we did was to trot along to the shower block where our boots were drying on the towel rail. The previous day had been so wet our boots … Continue reading →

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Yorkshire Wolds Way Part 2

Posted on June 4, 2024 by craftycreeky

We’d been psyching ourselves up for our third day, it was not only the longest day of the walk at 13 miles, it was the furthest we’d walked for a loooong time! South Cave to Shiptonthorpe. We got ourselves organised … Continue reading →

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Moon gazing.

Posted on October 26, 2022 by craftycreeky

We went to see the moon at Bolton Abbey on Monday, well to be precise we went to see Luke Jerram’s Museum of the Moon. I happened to see a photo on facebook of the moon and thought it looked … Continue reading →

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