An 8km walk on a grey day with neither of us feeling spiffy.Route: from the rectory, walking through the cemetery to the Greenway and following it east round the final housing estate of Strawberry Grange onto Strawberry How Road and then along the road, over the A66 and left for about 1km of road walking, to a clear bridleway on the left through Westray.
Crossing the A66 but, this time, avoiding the overgrown, unpleasantly brambly path 400m to the road and instead going through a gate to the left after 20m and taking a diagonal line uphill to the grassy path under Slate Fell leading to Brick Kiln Wood but detouring right, downhill, to locate the nondescript source of Bitter Beck. Returning to the path to and through Brick Kiln Wood and then along St Helen’s Street to the footbridge into the grassy area behind the Kirkgate Centre and arriving at the Bitter End pub from above down Swan Street.
Conditions: a cool, grey and breezy morning before an afternoon of rain.
Pub: the Bitter End for Lunebrew Pale Ale.
