A walk from Malton to Malton

On Saturday, Geoboy and I took a walk out of Malton. I have a soft spot for Malton because it is the home of Clear Spot organic tofu, the one with the picture of Captain Bean Curd on the box. He navigated (Geoboy, that is, not Captain Bean Curd, although considering the way things went, we might have been better off with the seafaring soya product in charge).

We began by taking part of the Centenary Way , "a route devised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Yorkshire County Council" in 1989. An odd thing to commemorate if you ask me, but at least it's not yet another gruesome blood-soaked battle, plus it gives ramblers another walking path.

Between the railway and the River Derwent.

The weather was pretty good most of the time, giving us views of the Yorkshire Yorkshire-people like to think of when they think of Yorkshire.

Ee, by gum

The route took us through a small nature reserve called Jeffry Bog, a designated Site of Scientifc Interest.

The plan was to be in the pub by the time a predicted afternoon shower arrived. Alas, everything seemed to be a bit further away than our navigator thought, and we got rained on good and hard. We did eventually make it to the Stone Trough Inn for a rest and a couple of pints. I can heartily recommend the cheesy chips.

Just down the hill from the pub is the spectacular, ominous ruin of Kirkham Priory.

We crossed this suspension footbridge on the way back. It bounces! (Time to lay off the cheesy chips? Nah.)

Near the end of our walk, we found a new form of life. 

Either that or an old discarded hoover.

Back where we started, we hobbled into The New Malton, a recently refurbished pub and restaurant on the marketplace. I may have mentioned that our navvy kept understimating distances. Part of our route was on one side of the map, and t'other on t'other. Apparently this caused a few miles to fall out of his head. In the end, our six to seven mile route had become twelve and a half miles. Whoopsie! We made it back in one piece, though. More or less.