A Walkers Tale

Today the plan is to walk the Tabular Hill Walk - which whilst the poorer cousin of the Cleveland Way , is a walk that is hard to resist. This is not because it crosses any particularly fancy terrain, or offers any particularly spectacular views - but just for the fact that it completes a rather neat circle for those who have walked the full  Cleveland Way .

The Pennine Bridleway has a loop that juts out from Settle, and then comes back to finish where it started. And with this loop totaling around 10 miles it can be extended without creating too challenging a day - and the plan for today is to walk this loop, but extending to explore Malham Cove and Gordale Scar.

Today is the second day (of two) spent walking along Offa's Dyke Path , having done a section of that trail on the previous day, with a walk between Chirk and Oswestry . Having stayed overnight in Oswestry, the day begins with the reverse of how the previous day had ended - with a walk from Oswestry to meet back up with the route of  Offa's Dyke Path .

Today the plan is to go somewhere a bit different - and here I have decided to tick off two additional days of walking along the Offa's Dyke Path . So far I have done four days on this trail (I only have writeups for two, but will return to redo the other two) - and here we are ticking off a stretch near the middle of the trail.

Today's walk is a fairly short one - that will take me along the Teesdale Way , from Middleton-in-Teesdale down to Barnard Castle. This walk starts on the very edge of the North Pennines - and then follows the valley cut through the landscape by the River Tees, as the river starts to transition between Upper and Lower Teesdale.

Today I am once again heading back out to complete another section of the Pennine Way - and here I will be doing the last of the sections I planned to do in the "wrong" direction (ie from North to South), as I make my way across Northumberland National Park.