Great Strickland and Morland Walk

Today's Wednesday Walk was No 29 from this excellent publication by Penrith Ramblers. It was just over 9 miles and slightly longer than planned as we took a wrong turning. Hopefully Niall will be back next week so Tom can concentrate on just walking instead of navigating.

Walking accross a field which has a footpath right through the middle is a real treat. Many thanks to the farmer who went to the bother of ensuring the "right of way" was clearly shown.

There are many lovely small villages in the walks included in this book and today's nicest village was Newby and this lovely cottage garden was a real treat.

One of the many small bridges we crossed with the cattle waiting to follow us along the other bank.

Another old bridge over the River Lyvennet and this is called the "Crossrigg Hall" Bridge.

An ocean of Barley. After a poor spring many of the local farms are quite a bit behind with their crops but this field contained Winter Barley planted last year and therefore has had a bit of a head start over the rest. We met one of the local farmers and he told us he had just planted the last of his Barley last week so it will be a late harvest.