Day 13 - Ingleby Cross to Chop Gate


What a wonderful day. We entered the North Yorkshire Moors National Park and had four significant ascents and descents. The weather was fantastic and the views were magnificent in all directions - back towards the Dales where we came from, to the south and west across the heather covered moors and to the north to Middlesborough and Hartlepool and our first sighting of the North Sea!

Distance today 13.8 miles

Total Distance so far 166 miles

We set off from Ingleby Cross and soon came across this amusing sign telling us how many miles and how many steps to Robin Hoods Bay and back to St Bees. It says we have done 132 miles, 18,300 feet of ascent and 307,000 steps so far!!!

Climbing up through Arncliffe Wood


Beautiful wood sorrel

As we continue to climb we start to have views back across the flat farmland we have traversed over the last few days to the Dales.


We eventually reach moorland



A comfortable seat and wonderful views from our coffee spot




Skylark ready for takeoff 

Looking out to the North and across to the second peak in the distance!

The Yorkshire Moors are supposed to have the largest continuous area of heather in the country and we certainly saw plenty of heather and llys/ bilberries/blaeberries today- not ready for picking yet!!!

We came across some paragliders preparing for take off from Busby Moor

…then, a natural brilliantly coloured aviator

Looking back towards Richmond and the Yorkshire Dales (just visible on the horizon).


A clump of beautiful delicate wild daffodils 

A welcome seat at the top of the third climb to the top of Cringle Moor. The seat was built by the friends of  Alec Falconer - ‘a rambler’



It points us back to Richmond and the Dales in the distance

Looking along the ridge to the top of Cringle Moor - altitude 435m


Heading onto the third hill of the day. We were back to hearing lapwing, curlews and skylarks again, seeing grouse popping out of the heather, and occasional noisy geese flying over. 

We turned off the Coast to Coast and Cleveland way which we had been following all day to go to our accommodation. We’d been advised to follow this ridge until we fell off the end!



…facing the approaching end!

Down the green lane at the end to get to Chop Gate (pronounced Chop Yat) and our accommodation at the Buck Inn

The pub was run by a German guy called Wolfgang and the menu had a very German twist. This was David’s starter - Hamburg Herring!!



 


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