Ramble No. 13 - York

Date: Mon 5 Dec 2011
Place: York

Distance: About 4 miles

Time:   About 2hr
Weather: Overcast.

Start: York Parliament Street.
Map: here.

Tour of the city, following a leaflet from the visitor information centre, visiting points associated with the Rowntree family.

 

Lady Peckitt's Yard

Rowntree Wharf

Red Tower (1480) - start of City Wall

Fishergate Tower 1504 (with Garderobe)

Door in City Wall

York Wheel near York Station

St Mary's Abbey (1271) in Museum Gardens

York Minster from City Walls

York Minster

Ramble No 12. - Painshill Park, Surrey

Date: Wed 23 Nov 2011
Place: Painshill Park near Cobham, Surrey

Distance: About 4 miles

Time:   About 1hr 30 min
Weather: Overcast. Mild for the time of year.

Start: Painshill Park car park.
Map: here.

Tour of the park, round the lake:

The Waterwheel

The Gothic Tower

The Hermitage

The Turkish Tent

The Gothic Temple

The Chinese Bridge

Ramble No. 11 - Clumber Park, Notts.

Date: Sat 2 Oct 2011
Place: Clumber Park near Worksop, Nottinghamshire

Distance: About 10 miles

Time:   Over 5hrs including tea!
Weather: Very warm and sunny for the time of year.

Start: Clumber Park Caravan Club site.
Map: Clumber ramble map.

Started towards the National Trust facilities via the Lime Walk.

Lime Walk

Visited the chapel

Cumber Park Chapel

Set off to walk North East around the lake.

View accross the lake from North side

Apples for sale, Hardwick village

Bought Russett apples for lunch.Continued round South side of lake.

Path on South side of lake

View back to Chapel from South

Crossed the bridge back to the National Trust retaurant for a cream tea.

Bridge in South West

Still time to visit the walled garden.

Walled Garden

Medlars

Then returned accross the park to the caravan site.

Ramble No.10 - Goathland, N Yorks

Date: Wed 14 Sept 2011
Place : High moors walk around Goathland

Distance: About 10 miles

Time:   Over 5hrs
Weather: Sunny, windy and very clear

Start: Goathland Station

Up the cracker bank from the station, and along the old tram track to the mine.

Goathland Station

On tram track

Whinstone mine

Turned North up the moor from the mine, accross the Green End road to the Whinstone Ridge for picnic lunch out of the sun and wind.

Whinstone Ridge disused quarries

 Continued following the Whinstone Ridge accross the Goathland road.

Sil Howe

 Reached a boundary stone - probably Robbed Howe.

Robbed Howe

Views of Ravenscar beacon in the East to Bilsdale beacon in the West

Robin Hood's Bay in the distance

 By-passed York Cross via Foster Howes to reach Ann's Cross

 

Ann's Cross and coast in the distance

Fylingdales moor

 Followed track past Louven Howe to Lilla Cross for a picnic tea.

Lilla Cross

 Via MOD track and path back down to Eller Beck bridge accross main Pickering Whitby road.

Track down from Lilla Cross

 Up Goathland road to Moorgates.

Moorgates

 Turned up incline track following the George Stephenson line back to Goathland.

Incline near Abbot's House

Ramble No. 9 - Downe, Kent

Date: Tue 30 Aug 2011
Place : Village of Downe, Kent and Darwin's House

Distance: Les than 3 miles

Time:   About 1 hr for the walk
Weather: Cloudy & autumnal

Start: Opposite Downe village church

Having visited Down House (English Heritage), and enjoyed a cream tea, parked by the pub and followed a walk through the fields in Darwin's footsteps around the village.

Downe House

Downe Church

George and Dragon, Downe

Ramble No. 8 - Hyde Park

Date: Sun 14 Aug 2011
Place : Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens

Distance: About 3.5 miles

Time:   About 2 hrs
Weather: Cloudy but warm & bright

Start: Hyde Park Corner (via 436 bus from Camberwell)

Walked around Wellington Arch and memorials to Australia and New Zealand before using underpass to enter Hyde Park near Apsley House. Through Rose Gardens and past formal bedding to reach Serpentine.

Wellington Arch

New Zealand Memorial

Through Rose Gardens and past formal bedding to reach Serpentine.

Rose Garden, Hyde Park

Gardens, Hyde Park

 Along North edge of Serpentine past grandstands for triathlon being dismantled to cross south over bridge to the Diana memorial fountain.

Serpentine

Serpentine

Isis Sculpture near Diana Memorial

Princess Diana memorial fountain

The serpentine gallery 'installation' this year is a garden with black walls around it.
Inside the main gallery is a maze of corrugated cardboard with mirrors.

Serpentine Gallery

Serpentine Gallery

Albert Memorial

Albert Memorial - Asia

After visiting the Albert memorial in Kensington Gardens near the Albert Hall, walked back along carriage drive past the barracks to catch bus from Hyde Park Corner.