Baugh Fell – a difficult hike up the twelfth highest peak of the #YorkshireDales30
I’m gradually working my way through the #Yorkshire30 – the 30 Highest Peaks in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Whilst with boundary...
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timbarber
- Mar 1
- 5 min
Buckden Pike Circular – a hike up Yorkshire’s 7th Highest Peak
As I’m off in May to the Highlands of Scotland for a few days walking with some old friends, it has motivated me for the need to get a...
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timbarber
- Oct 30, 2022
- 4 min
Buckden to Cray to Hubberholme loop with lunch at The George Inn
I regularly drive through upper Wharfedale on my All Creatures Great & Small tours, stopping at Hubberholme to visit the church of St...
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timbarber
- Oct 25, 2022
- 3 min
Yockenthwaite Stone Circle – ceremonial site, burial mound or medieval sheep pen?
I regularly take visitors into Yockenthwaite on my All Creatures Great and Small tours, to show them Yockenthwaite Farm which plays...
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timbarber
- Jul 4, 2022
- 3 min
The Norber Erratics and Sulber Nick from Austwick
We headed out from Austwick to explore the surrounding limestone pavement and one of Yorkshire’s other famous geological features – The...
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timbarber
- Mar 3, 2022
- 4 min
Dodd Fell, Wether Fell & the old Roman Road
As part of my mission to climb Yorkshire’s 30 Highest Peaks, we had found a route on Jonathan Smith’s great Where2Walk website which...
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timbarber
- Jan 28, 2022
- 5 min
Circular walk from Thixendale to the deserted medieval village of Wharram Percy
The Yorkshire Wolds is often over looked in favour of Yorkshire’s better known National parks – The Yorkshire Dales & North York Moors....
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timbarber
- Dec 18, 2021
- 4 min
Ridge Walk – Gauber to Ingleborough via Simon’s Fell with stunning views
I’d walked on part of Simon’s Fell during my Yorkshire 3 Peaks Challenge in May but never actually reached its summit. As it’s one of the...
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timbarber
- Nov 23, 2021
- 2 min
Shedding some light on Beamsley Beacon
Most people head out from Ilkley up onto the Moors above White Wells or The Cow and Calf, but walking up on the Moors over the other side...
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timbarber
- Jun 11, 2021
- 4 min
The Cragg Vale Coiners Walk from Christopher Goddard’s illustrated map
I’ve recently blogged about the infamous Cragg Vale Coiners, who in the 1760’s from the remote moorland above Mytholmroyd, embarked on a...
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timbarber
- May 15, 2021
- 6 min
The Yorkshire 3 Peaks Challenge - 65,000 steps in a day!
One of the famous walking challenges in Yorkshire is The Yorkshire Three Peaks. It’s a walk of 24.5 miles but with 5200 feet (1585m) of...
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timbarber
- Apr 14, 2021
- 5 min
Roseberry Topping & The Captain Cook Monument – walk from Great Ayton
The distinctive hill on the edge of the North York Moors has become an iconic landmark, particularly after part of the previously flat...
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timbarber
- Mar 7, 2021
- 3 min
A circular walk up Sharp Haw with a well-deserved beer!
A recent socially distanced afternoon walk with my old rugby pal Tim and his vizsla Max involved a walk I had not done before, up to the...
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timbarber
- Feb 7, 2021
- 4 min
Ilkley to The Doubler Stones loop walk
This is a good lockdown leg stretch with a few short climbs to get your lungs going. A pal of mine Lee from Burnley (over on the...
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timbarber
- Feb 3, 2021
- 5 min
The Story of Scar House Reservoir, the pop up village of Scar and the lost village of Lodge
Deep in the heart of Nidderdale’s Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) towards the top of the Nidd Valley and in the shadow of Great...
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timbarber
- Jan 24, 2021
- 5 min
Askwith to Clifton – a short loop walk in Wharfedale
Having pretty much exhausted walks around Burley in Wharfedale where I live during lockdown, it was satisfying to find a walk I hadn’t...
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timbarber
- Jun 8, 2020
- 3 min
A walk into Coverdale from Scar House Reservoir in Nidderdale
After being blessed with great weather for the first couple of months of the pandemic, Wednesday saw the weather change and as we parked...
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timbarber
- May 31, 2020
- 4 min
A walk up Whernside - Yorkshire's Highest Peak
With lockdown restrictions lifted I decided to get up early and take a hike up Whernside with my wife and faithful black lab Bronte. I...
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timbarber
- Apr 11, 2020
- 2 min
The Poetry Seat on Ilkley Moor
few years ago on the way back from a good yomp over Ilkley Moor to the 12 Apostles stone circle, I took a slight detour on my way back...
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timbarber
- Apr 9, 2020
- 4 min
Staithes to Whitby walk - as recommended in The Times
Whilst in lockdown with the Corona Virus pandemic raging outside, I read an article in The Times on 7th April 2020 entitled “Ramblers...
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