THE VALE OF MOWBRAY - A Northern Coast to Coast Walk: From St Bees to Robin Hood's Bay - page 88

En route you will find the water supply pipe described in the information box about
Richmond, an antiquated street lamp and, near the Green, another sundial on a wall.
The Green was once an industrial suburb of Richmond, the 'rough' quarter, as it has
been described. Here there used to be a tannery, dyeworks, corn mill, fulling mill and
brewery.
Cross the bridge and shortly turn left into playing fields. Keep left and fol-
low the edge of the field, with the ramparts of the castle towering high
above, to enter woodland and climb to reach another field at a stile. Follow
a green path going left, and as this starts to descend, locate a kissing-gate
on the right by which the route gains a paved way in front of a row of
houses (Priory Villas).
At the end of the houses, keep ahead and slightly left, to join the main
road (A6136). Turn right and follow the road until, at a sharp bend, and
just after crossing in-flowing Sand Beck, the route goes left (signposted)
to take a service road leading to the sewage works, which contrast rather
sharply with the ruins of Easby Abbey across the Swale, though the view
of the ruins is somewhat obscured by undergrowth. Easby Abbey was founded
in 1152 for a group of Premonstratensian Canons, last encountered at Shap Abbey. Its
rather more substantial remains are also open to the public.
At the sewage works, skirt around the boundary on a clear path for a
whiffy five minutes that leads to a stile entering woodland. A muddy path
treks on through the woodland and crosses a footbridge, finally climbing
to escape from the trees and undergrowth not far from the ruins of Hagg
Farm.
Press on past the ruins along a narrow trod through undergrowth, and
then by an improving path climb an easy brow before aiming across the
next field to a stile in the far corner. Descend along a field boundary (left),
and in the next field aim a quarter right on a narrow path to reach a
concealed stile on the edge of more woodland. In company with a small
stream, continue to a driveway leading into, and through, the hamlet of
Colburn, crossing a bridge and passing a pub before coming to a lane end.
As the lane bends right, keep ahead to pass around a farmyard. Go right,
along the edge of a pasture, to join a cart track. Follow the track, left, but
leave it before a fence at the end of the second pasture by bearing left,
and shortly right, through a gate towards St Giles Farm.
ST GILES HOSPITAL