Kilometres Walked – Sunday – 4, Monday – 8.6

Monday 3rd April, 2023.

Finally four years later we found The Ribblehead Viaduct. On our last jaunt in 2019 our satnav took us on a wild goose chase trying to find the viaduct. I’m not sure exactly where we ended up but it certainly wasn’t at Ribblehead 😆 And what a day to find it. Big blue sky and sunglasses needed😎 Very impressive indeed. Parking up and going for a stroll around and underneath it, we stood there in awe at the sheer size of it. 24 stone arches rise above the moor 32 metres. So many people lost their lives during construction of the line that the railway paid for an expansion of the local graveyard. Beautiful rolling hills surround the structure making it easy to see why there were so many ramblers out and about. 🥾

Taking the long scenic drive back to West Burton we found another pretty little market town called Settle. There seems to be no end to pretty, historic villages in this beautiful part of the country. Lambs dotted in almost every field, daffodils reaching for the sky, dry stone walls dividing paddocks, narrow bridges and winding roads, bluebells starting to show themselves, mad March hares and beautiful stone cottages. The Yorkshire Dales are a perfect postcard😊