Enjoying retirement
In The Red Rose County
Looking at the OS map we worked out a circular walk starting from the little village of Kildwick near Skipton. A pretty place indeed. We parked at the pub (unfortunately closed) and climbed up to the Leeds and Liverpool canal. Surprisingly, thinking it would be running along the valley bottom, we found it to be at quite a high level above the village. I find that some canals are very boring as walking routes. This was not. We enjoyed our stroll along here very much indeed. The scenery was pretty and there were lots of interesting canal features. We looked back at Kildwick Church which is 14th century and quite impressive. And were interested to see the variety of swing bridges, some manual some requiring electrical or mechanical operation.... And the old mileage posts seemed to be all in place... At our appointed point of departure from the canal we dropped down a very muddy farm lane to the River Aire. This is the river that rises in the superb countryside of Malham and eventually travels through Leeds before ending up at Goole. Up here in the early part of its course it holds many varieties of fish including trout, chub, barbel, grayling, roach and perch (very impressive) as well as hosting otters....... and swans..... Looking over towards Silsden, we saw a very striking cloud formation (difficult to show in the pic) but one we had never seen before. A pleasant walk. We then drove to Skipton, parked on the cobbles and had a quick look round and a beautiful hot chocolate from the home made chocolates shop.
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