THE VALE OF MOWBRAY - A Northern Coast to Coast Walk: From St Bees to Robin Hood's Bay - page 87

is needed is fitness and a keen mind to fully appreciate what the Cleveland
Hills and the North York Moors have to offer. The low-lying land, barley
fields, quiet farms and rural scenery of the vale are, in any case, valuable,
diet-balancing ingredients of the Coast to Coast feast, and should not be
gobbled indecently.
There is growing evidence, too, that many walkers agree with this view,
and having trekked from Richmond to Danby Wiske, then extend the next
day a short distance from the designated route to spend the night at Os-
motherley rather than Ingleby Cross.

Richmond to Bolton-on-Swale

Distance 10.5km (6½ miles)

Height Gain 70m (230 feet)

Cross the Market Place and descend via New Road, Bargate and Bridge
Street to Richmond Bridge.

RICHMOND BRIDGE

Richmond Bridge dates from 1788-9, and was built by two different contractors, one
operating for Richmond Corporation and the other for the county council. It spans the
Swale, which from its exuberant, fast-flowing youth high above Keld has grown to full
stature, slower and more mature as it sets out across the farmlands of the Vale of York
to join the River Ure, and so become the Ouse.