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From Richmond right up to Ravenseat, from cheese to Cherry Kearton, a new book about Swaledale celebrates its wonderful landscape, its characterful…
A LONG walk on excellent tracks and great views in all directions. Between Redmire in Wensleydale and Reeth in Swaledale lie an area of grouse…
FOR weeks we have been scouring the countryside – you could say from Bowes to Kolkata – in search of “binks”. A “bink” was a Yorkshire and Durham dialect word for a stone bench, often with a sink attached, directly outside a cottage door on which a milk churn was placed so that the housewife could make butter or cheese. The word “bink” has also been applied to milk stands, which are the stone platforms built at farm gates for churns to be placed on ready for collection. There remain binks and milk stands all over the place. Staying out in Teesdale, when Selset Reservoi...
PREMIUM St Osyth Priory, near Clacton in Essex, and St Osythe's Farm, near Richmond, are named after the same Anglo Saxon saint AS you venture down the bank north out of Richmond towards Gilling West, you are confronted by an attention-grabbing triumphal arch with huge iron gates dedicated to Voltigeur, the horse which won the 1850 Derby and caused celebrations so all-consuming that a score of men drank themselves to death. The Voltigeur Arch on the road between Richmond and Gilling West We drained every last drop out of that story last week, but the real reason we were going down the ste...