Well, here's a change, we are getting out of Northumberland this time around, Our last two walks of 2025 and the first three walks of 2026 have all been in Northumberland so this time we are heading to the Yorkshire Dales. Not too far into the Dales though, only as far as Richmond but it is going to be different. 

Just to be different there are two images for this post. You may have seen one of them on the Home page of the website. It's the one where we are looking a bit wet, something like the last few walks of this year. However, that image was taken in March 2019 on a particularly wet day where our path was under a foot or so of water and crossing by way of the fence was the only option. 

Unknown to us then but 2019 was going to be our last full walk programme for two years. In 2020, we managed to do the first six walks before the COVID outbreak closed everything down. In 2021 we started walking again in September and on a sunny day in October we did the Skeeby to Richmond routes which is when the image on this page was taken.

Only one of the routes this time starts in Skeeby. The 8-mile route heads in a westerly direction out of Skeeby before coming south and along the edge of the old Richmond racecourse and dropping down through the Gallowfields Trading Estate into Richmond.

Just before the Skeeby drop-off the 10.5-mile route starts by heading west along a short section of the A66 road and then going through Sedbury Park. This route goes further west then the 8-mile route but still comes in via the racecourse and the Trading Estate. Both routes use that section of footpath where we ended up walking the edge of the fence in 2019. 

The 9.5-mile route starts after Skeeby and just before entering outskirts of Richmond, The route goes south of Richmond but then comes back to Richmond via an old railway path. It then skirts the edge of the town and heads west following the line of the River Swale before crossing the river and heading further west towards the buildings of Low Applegarth. The route then turns east back towards Richmond.  
       
Our last few walks have been either wet and muddy or dry and muddy. The mud is unlikely to dry out before we get to Richmond but hopefully the weather on the day will be something like the one in October 2021. Why not join us for a walk and see if it's a hood up day or a jacket off day. You can get touch with us from our Contact Page, you can also download the walk description here and the GPS route here.