Two Dogs and an Awning

We are at the end of our tour, after thirty-one nights we are heading back home tomorrow.  But before we do there is time to fit in one final walk in the Yorkshire Dales.  If I was ever on the walking equivalent of “Desert Island Discs”, whi...

We are nearing the end of this trip to Brigholme Farm CL and there are still some Ordnance Survey trig pillars in the area that I have not “bagged” and as luck would have it a visit to them can be combined with a walk in Crummack Dale.

For many years a key feature of my walking has been to visit Ordnance Survey triangulation pillars, also known as trig points.  These pillars were introduced in 1935 in a project led by Brigadier Martin Hotine and for many years were essential in...