Thursday 26 April, 2007 Another Dales Way couple, Tom and June, were at breakfast. They’d walked over from Raisgill yesterday and, like most other couples were using the Sherpa Van to move their bags along the trail. Unfortunately, Sherpa don’t cater for solo hikers on this route.
Tom and June, very fit in their late sixties, introduced themselves as being from Barrowford in Lancashire, “a place you’ll never have heard of.”
He was a retired Policeman who’d worked in that area for many years.
“We’re practically related”, I said. “I was reared within a mile of the Barrowford Cop Shop. I retired from Humberside Police seven years ago.”
The walk down to Dent was through lovely emerald green meadows in bright, warm sunshine. I was looking forward to a coffee in the village but little stirred and nothing was open as I walked through at eleven.
The revised route, over the River Dee at Brackensgill is a great improvement on the original by Rash Bridge, cutting out a mile of, admittedly very quiet, road walking.
Despite a long break on the hill above Millthrop admiring the Howgills, I was in The Dalesman in Sedburgh in plenty of time for a nap, leisurely potter around the town and visit to the laundrette.
Accommodation: The Dalesman Country Inn, Main Street, Sedbergh, Cumbria, LA10 5BN (015396 21183)
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