Well, we started our walk 61 days ago in the Deep South, crossing 16 counties we walked through the Wild West across to the Far East and then back west again to what is technically called the middle bit: and today we enter the NORTH as we walk into Yorkshire, our 17th county. The screenshot below gives some idea of our track so far, although we couldn't quite get the full map to show. Our trail is roughly represented by the walking figures below starting around the bottom left. We are now near the SP52 pointer.
The purpose of the next few days is to head us North to the Dales Way in the shortest distance: so that means a few days in fairly built up areas. So although we set off along side the river, we soon turned off onto country lanes.
We had planned to follow a B- road but it looked like it was fairly busy and our day was meant to be a bit shorter and so we swung a bit further North to follow minor roads. Again we met some friendly locals, catching them at breakfast
and out for their morning walk.
Some were a little surprised to see us but stopped for a chat anyway.
It looked like were were going to have to follow some more major roads but lo,and behold we found a path following the River Tome that was not shown on the map ... so we named it the Barnes National Trail.
The river was really calm and placid with reflections doubling the view.
We did meet some locals out to graze on the path. They were very cute but a bit skittish when they saw us and one was so anxious it started to jump around, which was fine till we noticed it was tethered to a large chain which would have made mincemeat of our legs had it trapped us. But all was well and we went happily on our way. Needless to say when we passed the next horses we were a little more circumspect.
We followed the path till we reached Branton and from there we followed the pavement through the built up area into Doncaster.
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