We set off from Brantingham and quickly came to two interesting constructions - All Saints' Church Brantingham, which is 12th century in origin and was restored in the 19th century - and the Brantingham sheep wash where the local farmers used to wash their sheep by hand once a year until chemical sheep dips were invented in the 1950s.
This section of the walk had some magnificent views, including of the village of South Cave. We came across an unusual pair of arty benches with curved backs and an equally arty inscription on the other side:
"we shed them one by one, by shattered field and barley skies, until the way is open for echoes of us
made strange by wind, deserted barn, the shifting trade
of shadows on the Humbri, Humbre, Humber, our mouths to springs that speak in tongues of theirs"
No idea what it means but you can find out more about both the benches and the poetry here.
The next stretch passed through some lovely woodland with occasional stones with carving on. This one bore the words "North end Drewton Fence" on one side and "South end Hunsley Fence" on the other - presumably a boundary marker between estates. A little further on after a steep climb out of the dale into a cornfield, we came across another acorn post telling us we only have another 64 miles to go to Filey.
Passing a beacon on the top of a hill, we made our way into Slin Dale, almost 2 miles of a shallow valley populated by lots of sheep, wheat and barley before passing Sober Hill windfarm and the end of today's walk on Sancton Hill.
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