KIRKBY STEPHEN TO ROBIN HOOD'S BAY
DAY SIX - OSMOTHERLEY TO GREAT BROUGHTON - 12.7 MILES
This little fellow spends his life being a door stop in the Golden Lion at Osmotherley along with other fellows that act as draught excluders.
We left Osmotherley northwards along the Cleveland Way and this is the view back from near Ruebury Hill. http://www.nationaltrail.co.uk/cleveland-way
View across the Vale of Mowbray from the fields north of Chapel Wood Farm.
In South Wood as you climb to the trig point on Beacon Hill there is this good view point.
The trig point is not accessible in a field but it is here that you get your first view of the undulations ahead.
The gate that leads into Scarth Wood Moor and a lovely gradual descent.
The stone column also points the way and has the letters LWW standing for the Lyke Wake Walk a walk I undertook in my youth when 42 miles seemed doable!
Some video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8x51O_OtmI
We stopped for a coffee break before the final fields down to Scugdale Beck.
A view back to Clain Wood from near Live Moor Plantation after which there is a steep ascent up through the woods to Knolls End.
From there you are out on to Live Moor and begin a traverse of a ridge including Round Hill and Gold Hill.
View across to Whorl Hill.
Gold Hill looking towards Carlton Moor
Looking back from Faceby Bank
There is a trig point on Carlton Moor at 408 metres and it was very windy up there and we were glad to continue as per picture on down the other side. Lunch and picnic lunch was taken at the Lord Stones Café at the bottom.
Video of the Cleveland Hills https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XcyXeVLdl0
The path up Cringle |Moor the next hurdle.
View towards Great Broughton our destination out there on the plain a couple of miles from the hills.
View from Cringle Moor looking east, we had to get to Broughton Bank Woods on the slope in the distance.
It is here that there is monument to rambler Alec Falconer 1884-1968
View back along Kirby Bank (the slope on the right) to the end of the ridge where the memorial is located.
That is the east end of Kirkby Bank in the background and it was on up again after that to the top of Broughton Bank. Here the wind got up making it difficult to stand and then it started to rain, again we were glad to get in the shelter on the other side and get on our way down.
This was the descent to Garfit Gap taken the next day with blue skies. From here it was down through the woods and a particularly muddy path to the bottom of Broughton Bank, along Bank Lane and then we followed the footpath by the side of Holme Beck into the village of Great Broughton.
After 2738 feet of climbing that day it was a weary bunch that made it into the Wainstones Hotel. http://www.wainstoneshotel.co.uk/
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