As a family, we avoid the coastal roads on Easter weekend, specially Easter Sunday but for the sake of the ‘Oddsocks’ we sat in the traffic all the way from the gym to Malton bypass arriving at the start point 30 mins late.
What joy to find other Oddsocks had arrived already. We were 9 altogether and two dogs. We set off at about 11.30.
The route took us from the community centre car park past the gates of Settrington House and into the valleys and hill sides that twist and fold around here in a most unusual way.
The views from the high points over the vale of York were splendid and the heads of the valleys formed natural amphitheatres.
We climbed one such valley head called Fizgig Hill. We stopped for lunch on Bassett Brow where a bench had been kindly placed for us to enjoy the view across the relatively flat farmland to the North EastBoth dogs seemed well behaved to me but then near the end of the walk our dog Kelby disgraced himself by chasing some chickens, only stopping when I rugby tackled him to the ground – feathers everywhere.!!
We walked through the village with its green each side of a clear tinkling brook and ford, daffodils in abundance.
What joy to find other Oddsocks had arrived already. We were 9 altogether and two dogs. We set off at about 11.30.
The route took us from the community centre car park past the gates of Settrington House and into the valleys and hill sides that twist and fold around here in a most unusual way.
The views from the high points over the vale of York were splendid and the heads of the valleys formed natural amphitheatres.
We climbed one such valley head called Fizgig Hill. We stopped for lunch on Bassett Brow where a bench had been kindly placed for us to enjoy the view across the relatively flat farmland to the North EastBoth dogs seemed well behaved to me but then near the end of the walk our dog Kelby disgraced himself by chasing some chickens, only stopping when I rugby tackled him to the ground – feathers everywhere.!!
We walked through the village with its green each side of a clear tinkling brook and ford, daffodils in abundance.
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