One day on our recent week's holiday we caught the train to York and had an interesting day round the Historic City culminating in a visit to the National Railway Museum at the end of the day.
Departing from Weeton Station.
The walls and York Minster in the background.
The River Ouse.
York Minster.
The War Memorial in Dean's Park.
Sign by the Archbishop's Palace.
The Archbishops Palace.
The Treasurer's House.
St William's College.
Street Performers.
The Shambles.
Outside the Jorvik Viking Centre.
Clifford's Tower.
Back on the walls.
Number 4468 Mallard is a London and North Eastern Railway Class A4 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotive built at Doncaster, England in 1938. While in other respects a relatively typical member of its class, it is historically significant for being the holder of the official world speed record for steam locomotives at 126 mph (203kph.
Green Arrow
Flying Scotsman in Wartime Black livery
Stephenson's Rocket
Duchess of Hamilton
GWR Notice.
The Hogwart's Express.
The River Nidd and Knaresborough Castle on the return journey.
Train departing Weeton Station.
Monday, 29 August 2011
Friday, 26 August 2011
Ingleton Waterfalls
Recently we visited Ingleton and went on the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail. The walk offers some of the most spectacular waterfall and woodland scenery in the North of England. The trail is 4.5 miles long (8 km) and leads through ancient oak woodland and magnificent Yorkshire Dales scenery via a series of stunning waterfalls and geological features. Alfred Wainwright said of this walk in his Walks in Limestone Country guidebook: “Surely, of its kind, this is the most delightful walk in the country? And not only delightful: it is interesting and exciting and captivating and, in places, awesome. Here Nature, always bountiful, has been lavish indeed: charming rivers, sparkling waterfalls, wooded ravines, sinister pools and gorges all combine to present a pageant of unexcelled beauty and grandeur. Here loveliness walks abreast. This is Ingleton’s showplace, attracting crowds of visitors in summer, but better enjoyed in the quiet of winter, when one can wander in wonderland undisturbed and enchanted”.
The sign at the start of the walk.
On the outward leg of the walk we followed the River Doe and on the return journey we came down the valley of the River Twiss (derived from Twistleton). Wainwright wrote this of the two rivers: “Of the two glens the more frequented and westerly one containing the Doe is the more charming and lovely; the eastern one, however, much the grander and more romantic, the greater volume of water of the Greta (Twiss) restlessly pounding the black walls of the gorges beneath a canopy of trees”.
The money mushrooms
Swilla Glen.
Pecca Falls.
Thornton Force.
Viv having a snack and checking the rest of the route.
A rest by the falls. During his ‘Pennine Journey’ walk in 1938, Alfred Wainwright the Lakeland guidebook writer described Thornton Force as follows: “I stood on the rocky bluff overlooking the Force and could feel the ground trembling at the thunderous roar of the river as it leaped clear in a boiling cloud of spray…It was pure white; a surging raging turbulence of sparking crystals”.
The river above the falls.
Raven Ray and the footbridge.
Still going in the right direction.
Twistleton Hall Farm.
"Black Beauty" below the limestone crags.
Crossing the stile with our first view of Ingleborough.
Sheep will safely graze!
Cloud lifting on Ingleborough.
Beezley Falls.
Baxengill Gorge.
Snow Falls (In August??)
The Money Tree.
Twisleton Glen.
Meal Bank Quarry.
The sweet shop in Ingleton.
The sign at the start of the walk.
On the outward leg of the walk we followed the River Doe and on the return journey we came down the valley of the River Twiss (derived from Twistleton). Wainwright wrote this of the two rivers: “Of the two glens the more frequented and westerly one containing the Doe is the more charming and lovely; the eastern one, however, much the grander and more romantic, the greater volume of water of the Greta (Twiss) restlessly pounding the black walls of the gorges beneath a canopy of trees”.
The money mushrooms
Swilla Glen.
Pecca Falls.
Thornton Force.
Viv having a snack and checking the rest of the route.
A rest by the falls. During his ‘Pennine Journey’ walk in 1938, Alfred Wainwright the Lakeland guidebook writer described Thornton Force as follows: “I stood on the rocky bluff overlooking the Force and could feel the ground trembling at the thunderous roar of the river as it leaped clear in a boiling cloud of spray…It was pure white; a surging raging turbulence of sparking crystals”.
The river above the falls.
Raven Ray and the footbridge.
Still going in the right direction.
Twistleton Hall Farm.
"Black Beauty" below the limestone crags.
Crossing the stile with our first view of Ingleborough.
Sheep will safely graze!
Cloud lifting on Ingleborough.
Beezley Falls.
Baxengill Gorge.
Snow Falls (In August??)
The Money Tree.
Twisleton Glen.
Meal Bank Quarry.
The sweet shop in Ingleton.
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