Tag: Trow Gill

  • Ingleborough and Trow Gill

    Ingleborough and Trow Gill

    We are at the end of our tour, after thirty-one nights we are heading back home tomorrow.  But before we do there is time to fit in one final walk in the Yorkshire Dales.  If I was ever on the walking equivalent of “Desert Island Discs”, which I suppose would be “Desert Island Walks,” I would struggle to choose my favourite eight walks, but I know which one would top the list; a walk up Ingleborough.
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  • Walking Ingleborough in the Cloud

    Walking Ingleborough in the Cloud

    Yesterday was a moving day, after ten days at Scar Close CL in Hudswell we headed a few miles further south. It was a pleasant drive through Wensleydale and then down from Hawes to reach our current site, Brigholme Farm CL, Giggleswick.  This is a CL we visit annually and most years more than once so the area and walks are familiar to us, but as it is one of our favourite locations in the Country there will be plenty to keep us occupied.
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  • There Is No Better Place To Be!

    There Is No Better Place To Be!

    Earlier in the year when we were planning this trip Lynnie asked if I fancied eating anywhere special on my birthday. A stupid question really, there was only ever going to be one answer, The Little House Restaurant in Settle. It ticks all the boxes for me, the food is outstanding, the service could not be more attentive and it also means that we can spend an evening with our dear friends Maurice, Jane and Carlos.
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  • A Special Place with Special People

    A Special Place with Special People

    There is one walk in the Dales that I have tried to do every year for as many years as I can remember and that is the trip up Ingleborough. There was one year when I was working in the north that I made a detour on the journey between Middlesbrough and Liverpool just to walk up it. (more…)