North Yorkshire Moors Walking Weekend

A hardy group of 17 people attended the annual Bank Holiday weekend in Yorkshire. Perhaps others had been put off by warnings about the difficulty of the walks. As it turned out, the weather was great, the walks were not too testing and they missed a very enjoyable weekend.

On Saturday and Sunday we walked on the beautiful North Yorkshire Moors where the heather seemed to go on for ever. Our guide Tom Farrell had read both The Buckinghams at Ravenswyke and Mystery Mine and was able to point out the places visited by both the Buckinghams and the Lone Piners.

A highlight of the weekend was when members of the Malcolm Saville Repertory Company performed an extract from Mystery Mine on the bridge at Beck Hole, later reprised on our way to the Roman road on Wheeldale Moor.

Malcolm Saville's son Jeremy joined us for the Friday and Saturday events including the meals in Pickering and Sleights. Another highlight though was the Sunday night meal where we seemed to have entered a time warp in Grosmont, where the pub and the menu seemed unchanged since the 1950s.

The weekend was rounded off by a visit to Whitby on Bank Holiday Monday where we enjoyed a light-hearted quiz walk around the town having our fish and chips on the quay, surrounded by enormous crowds.

On the Moors

Map Reading

Outdoor Thespians