Enjoying retirement
In The Red Rose County
We picked a car park on top of the moors between here - Trawden - and Skipton and devised a circular walk. A typical moors walk very wet underfoot, but the views were inspiring. We took a walking stick each, and we needed them. The views kept improving. Here we could see the Pennines, but we had almost 360 degree views including of the Trough of Bowland and the Yorkshire Dales. We dropped a few hundred feet to Elslack reservoir - this is stocked 4 times a year with rainbow trout, blue trout and with the occasional brown trout. Fish on this water have grown to considerable size with the record fish, a 15½ pound brown trout, coming from here.....a big fish indeed. Walking around the reservoir and down some country lanes we arrived at Elslack itself. Here the Manor House (where we had quite a chat with an Indian gentleman who was sitting on the Manor's garden wall enjoying an extensive lunch)....... ......and here its very, very long seventeenth century barn. We tried hard to discern the Roman Camp which is near here.....could this be it? It was quite extensive apparently, a base for 500 cavalry. We had an easy walk but stiff climb back along Clogger Lane.... and then drove to Skipton for a quick look around. This 'shopping centre' was really one of the nicest we have come across.... and the entrance, with its amazing ironwork, reminded me very much of a similar structure in Lisbon....
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