Today the weather was great for walking, sunshine and
clouds, but not too hot. We set off from
Fridaythorpe duck pond past a chicken and pig feed plant which was not very
attractive, but we were soon out in the fields.
After only half an hour, we were heading down into our first
dale. The dales are deep dry valleys in
the Wolds which are very impressive.
3 miles on we reached the most impressive dale in the Wolds,
Thixendale. As we walked down into the
dale we got a good view of the artwork called "Space and Time" created by local artist Chris Gray at the junction of 3 dales. The walk down the dale to the village of
Thixendale in the sunshine was just beautiful.
Thixendale village was very peaceful but we were not as
impressed as the writer of the guidebook as most of the properties seemed to be modern, which wasn't at all what we were expecting. There were some interesting older buildings, though.
Straight out of the village, we climbed up the valley side
which wasn’t too difficult and from there the path stayed high until we
dropped down to the abandoned medieval village, Wharram Percy.
Also billed as peaceful, we stopped there to have
our lunch, but we had arrived on maintenance day so there were 3 workers
strimming, moving and cutting down trees.
It was relatively busy at the village, but once we left the
car park we were on our own again walking down to the end of today's walk just outside the village of Wharram-le-Street.
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