Route: From Grinton to Danby along the valley to Richmond for coffee, on minor roads overlapping with the Coast to Coast walk to Danby Wiske for a pre-prandial half, Osmotherley for lunch, followed by a climb and descent to circle round the North York Moors stopping at Great Ayrton for tea and then surprisingly hilly climb on either side of Eskdale (and a dire mile along a track) in the later afternoon to reach the Duke of Wellington in Danby.
Conditions: A sunny start followed by cloud and sun.
Pubs: The White Swan, Danby Wiske, for Blackdog Brewery Schooner; The Three Tuns, Osmotherley for Great Newsome Brewery Harvest Gold. The Duke of Wellington, Danby, for Wharfe Bank Cam Fell, Copper Dragon 1816 and Daleside Bitter.
