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Let’s not rush / weather radar app says it’ll be dry in half an hour (and it was). 👍

Breakfast – it’s only taken 15 days of walking and nearly 40 years of marriage to realise we can share a cooked breakfast as we like different bits of it !!! 🤦‍♂️

Today “may be the best section of this walk” ( ref stedman and butler 2020, trailblazers, p234)

The walk, however starts with around 2 km up the now fairly busy Rosedale Road (unlike in Wainwright’s day I guess). Not as pleasant as you might imagine.

We bypassed Ralph Cross by taking the now new C2C way mark sign off to the right …you can go see the two crosses if you keep on the road for about 500 more metres and then turn right.

Apparently young Ralph was a guide who helped the Cistercian nuns cross the moor from Rosedale Abbey (ref ⬇️)

We did however get to see Fat Betty (no political correctness in Yorkshire 🤭)

? Fat Betty – (ref ChatGPT)

• single large standing stone, roughly 3 metres high.
• The stone is thought to be prehistoric, although its exact date and original purpose aren’t known.
• She is also known as White Cross, and historically as Black Betty.
• The name “Fat Betty” is relatively modern and is generally attributed to her rather broad, squat appearance.

There then followed a bit of a dreary tarmac road – meeting the previous gravelly Fryup Track to the left

… before the moorland and Fryup Dale made us feel a lot better again!

The name Fryup may be a Yorkshire dialect reconstruction of the earlier name Frehope (14th century)

(Wikipedia)

The name was recorded as Fryop in the 19th century.

The name element Fre may be a reference to the Norse goddess Frigg.

The name element hope is from Old English hōp or Middle English hope ( ” valley ” ).

Onward.…

And then coming down the Glaisdale Rigg

into Glaisdale village where we stopped for a drink with our fellow walkers…

After half a pint (not many facilities en route!) we continued with Peter and Barbara (from Canada) before they peeled off at Egton Bridge

… through woodland (East Arncliffe wood)

..across fords and streams

…and even negotiating some stepping stones at Egton Bridge

We parted company as they were staying in Egton, and walked along the old toll road – now a bridleway, with a brief sojourn by the River for a spot of lunch – late, at 3p

… and finally reaching Grosmont

Dinner is booked for 7:30👏👏👏

Dinner took a while to arrive as a big party booked, but was good when it came .

No Puds needed- especially after yesterday’s portions 🤭

Tomorrow we are going to have Sue, one of the Australian four that we have bunny hopped all fortnight with, walk with us as the rest of her group are ‘injured’ and taking buses etc, and she has no real means of ‘navigation’/ map.

Last day tomorrow !