Not all Who Wander Are Lost

I liked this carved wooden plaque on a footpath sign....

 

Wharram Percy

Visiting the site of the abandoned Mediaeval village at Wharram Percy, I had the whole wold to myself...it was very atmospheric, but strangely not so eerie as visiting Duggleby Howe or Sharp Howe round barrows..... no sudden gusts of wind, soaring crows or flapping pheasants to unsettle me!

 

The Pilgrimage of Grace

The Wolds Way followed the route of a walk commemorating the 1536 Pilgrimage of Grace....

 

Goodmanham- pagan temple site

In 627 King Edwin converted to Christianity and his high priest smashed the pagan temple at Goodmanham! It was replaced with a church.

 

Tempus Fugit!

Time Flies! Thanks to the kind guide at Londesborough Estate church, who showed me all the old sundials, including a 10th century one and an old Anglo Danish cross, obscured by netting up in the doorway. 

 

Heslerton Shrunken Medieval Village

Top stay of the whole trip: Manor Farm, East Heslerton, where the Lunns made me very welcome, took me to the chip shop and told me about the excavations of the medieval village in their field. Just brilliant- and there was even a bath!

 

The Kevins

 I kept being overtaken by Kevin, last seen at the Humber bridge and using Sat Nav to intercept his wife between the Wolds Way legs......if you'll pardon the pun.  I prefer my 4 paper maps........

This was me eating my tea and feeling rather cold in my hut air B and B...when there was a man bearing sourdough......

Brantingham Sheep Wash

 

 

Old Jeremy

I quite liked Old Jeremy's headstone in the churchyard at Welton

 

Dick Turpin Woz 'Ere

Welton was a lovely  spot, Wolds village with a link to Dick Turpin

 

Lady Well, Beggar's Bush, a Mammoth's Leg and the Market Weighton Giant!

 

What an interesting part of the world- lots of wells with pagan origins and reputed powers, remains from the last Ice Age when the Vale of Pickering was a great big lake... and the home of the tallest ever Englishman.....plus a very nice curry in Market Weighton

Wolds Way Dogs

Here are a small selection of the well behaved hot dogs I met, along with their friendly owners at South Cave and Swindale....

 

Let's Off Road!

 

Some time later, after a climb up onto the start of the Wolds I unexpectedly encountered some off roaders who were somewhat lost .....

The Kevins

Day 1: I met the Kevins, of which more later......and shortly after starting on the shoreside path, I met a friendly family from Pontefract, who walked with me to North Ferriby 

(AKA The Wolds Way Campers!) 

Wolds Way - Hessle

The walk starts on the shores of the Humber estuary at Hessle, going under the mighty span of the Humber Bridge, site of mills for whiting, made from chalk quarried here (shown on old map..)

 

Yorkshire Wolds Way

Wonderful Wolds Way Walking this May!

All packed and ready to go!!