Tag Archives: Yorkshire Dales

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 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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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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Merging Workshops

Posted on August 22, 2022 by craftycreeky

We’ve had a busy couple of weeks here, hence very few posts! Our house sale has fallen through as our buyers pulled out, luckily before we had incurred costs for purchasing the one we wanted! Other countries seem to have … Continue reading →

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Cartography Course

Posted on July 2, 2022 by craftycreeky

Several of our Skipton Stitchers members have done on-line embroidery courses with Zara Day and they’ve always enthused about them so one of them mentioned she had just signed up for her cartography course I decided to check it out. … Continue reading →

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Wednesday Wanderings

Posted on July 28, 2021 by craftycreeky

My friend and I have challenged ourselves to walk the Dales 30, I bought the book by Jonathan Smith of the same name where he suggests routes to climb all thirty mountains in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. One mountain … Continue reading →

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Wednesday Wanderings

Posted on July 7, 2021 by craftycreeky

On Monday my walking buddy and I ticked off another two mountains in our Dales 30 challenge. This is from a book by Jonathan Smith with routes up every official ‘mountain’ in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Apparently they have … Continue reading →

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Walking up Sharp Haw

Posted on August 25, 2020 by craftycreeky

My walking buddy and I are managing to get out walking most weeks at the moment – weather permitting of course! We’re doing all the local walks which we never quite got round to doing before, one of these was … Continue reading →

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Lady Anne’s Way

Posted on April 21, 2019 by craftycreeky

We’ve had a very dry spring so far and the weather over the Easter Bank Holiday has been glorious, hot and sunny. My OH and I decided to go for a walk and my walking buddy joined us, we had … Continue reading →

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Friday Photo Challenge

Posted on November 30, 2018 by craftycreeky

After last weeks pickle I’m pleased to say I’ve got the right day and the right challenge – I think! Today’s photo challenge by Postcard from Gibraltar is Wild, so I think I feel some more walking photos coming on! … Continue reading →

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