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Message 220: Hi and firstly thanks for your great website. We have used it to identify several really interesting walks in the Dales and areas around Harrogate and I have just been looking again for a Sunday winter's walk. West Burton and Aysgarth may be just the one. A suggestion. Like many walkers we are always accompanied by our dog on our rambles. So a note of how dog-friendly the walk is would be helpful, e.g. A sheep country so dogs on short leads or how many stiles. Non dog-friendly stiles are our bug-bear. Small dogs can get through most but bigger dogs can struggle especially with ladder stiles. We've had some adventures with those. Fortunately there does seem to be a trend when renewing stiles to add a dog version by the side as well. And lastly a query. I was fascinated to read of your walks in Crete. We had a wonderful holiday there too and used the Landscape Sunflower book for Western Crete. Alas when we were there it was too hot to do much walking. We were warned off by locals as the temperatures were reaching 40 degrees. We intend to return one day and catch up on some of the walks we missed. We stayed near Chania which involved long drives to get to some of the walks. So I wondered where you stayed for your holiday and whether you found a more convenient base. Thanks again for your website and please keep it going. Regards. From: Sharon Pinder Town/City: Harrogate Country: England Date: Sunday 14 January 2007 Message 219: Just found your site. I am doing Scafell Pike for my 50th this year. I hope your info is very useful. I will update in July. From: Alan Bond Town/City: Liverpool Country: England Date: Thursday 11 January 2007 Message 218: I am bowled over by your website. So well organised, clear and informative. Fabulous pictures. I am setting up a small walking business in the Ardeche, France and was trawling around for ideas. You have given me plenty of inspiration and next time I am in the UK I shall be following one of your walks. Thanks. From: Kate Webb Stuckleberger Town/City: Paris Country: France Date: Tuesday 09 January 2007 Message 217: Fantastic website to visit UK by walking. Many thanks. I have already done a couple of walks you have suggested and I plan to do more this year. Photos are great to have an idea of what I am going to see. It helps a lot. From: A French Walker Town/City: Bedford Country: France Date: Saturday 06 January 2007 Message 216: I just happened upon your site and I think it's terrific. My husband and I have also walked the Coast to Coast both ways plus several of the other long distance walks in the UK. Some of our other favorites are the Southwest Coast Path (we've done about two thirds from Minehead to Falmouth) Offa's Dyke and most recently the Cumbria Way. Last spring in a detour off the Cumbria Way we celebrated my husband's 70th birthday by walking Striding Edge which we hadn't done either of the times we walked the C2C. Also we liked the West Highland Way and the northern half of the Pembrokeshire Coast Path. We didn't do the rest. Hope to do the Dales Way next or maybe a repeat of one of our other favorites. We love your trail descriptions. Keep it up. But you do go faster than we do! From: Sarah Shoemaker Town/City: Northport, Michigan Country: USA Date: Thursday 04 January 2007 Message 215: Great site with plenty of walks for beginners to attempt. Do you have any starting in Driffield? "I replied informing Kris of a few local options " From: Kris Egleton Town/City: Driffield, East Yorkshire Country: England Date: Friday 29 December 2006 Message 214: A delightful website. There is a selection of walks to suit people of all ages and ability. You are to be congratulated for enriching the lives of others by helping them enjoy the countryside that makes our beautiful country so special. Thank you. From: A Walker Town/City: Sheffield Country: England Date: Saturday 23 December 2006 Message 213: Great Walks took our platoon up everyone enjoyed it great days out for all. From: Rob O and Bennett Town/City: Catterick Garrison Country: England Date: Thursday 14 December 2006 Message 212: What a wonderful find when I found your website. Your walks are going to keep me busy for the next few years. A beautifully designed website and really informative. Keep up the good work and who knows you may inspire non-walkers to enjoy our beautiful English countryside. From: Stuart Mortimer Town/City: Halifax Country: England Date: Saturday 09 December 2006 Message 211: Yours is a wonderful site and a great resource. I regularly walk in my area, the Washburn Valley North Yorkshire and I am impressed that you have also discovered and described my favourite walks. One warning to readers though the Timble Inn has been closed for a couple of years now though building work has just begun. From: Richard Bailey Town/City: Harrogate Country: England Date: Wednesday 06 December 2006 Message 210: What a great website. I can't wait to go out a try the walks out. Regards. From: Matty C Foy Town/City: Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire Country: England Date: Friday 01 December 2006 Message 209: Super website. Have tried several of your walks and invariably have managed to veer off in some slightly wrong direction often adding a good mile to the journey. Not as a result of your directions I hasten to add. However I am a bit nervous of the lonely moor ones so perhaps you should do some guided tours. Interesting to see familiar faces from the pubs and other places in Knaresborough on your photos. Looking forward to doing more in the future. From: Lorna Newman Town/City: Knaresborough Country: England Date: Wednesday 22 November 2006 Message 208: Very useful site. I will use it again and again. From: Dick Funnell Town/City: Kington Country: England Date: Sunday 12 November 2006 Message 207: Mike you have a great site. I have recently moved in with my girlfriend in Cookridge and was stunned to see the wonderful walk around Horsforth. My girlfriend Cathy is originally from Horsforth and has a hair dressing salon just off Town Street and even she was surprised by such an excellent walk. Living where we do as you yourself admit is incredibly fortunate because of all the wonderful walks within a few minutes drive. Our Sundays are extra special now. Whether it's gentle walking from Burnsall up Troller's Gill or bogtrotting over Bingley and Ilkley Moors getting togged up helping Cathy prepare her amazing picnics and calming the poodles down in the back seat of the car Sunday's are guaranteed to be the best day of the week. And now we have found your site our Sundays are going to get better and better. Cheers. From: Nick Lee Town/City: Cookridge, Leeds Country: England Date: Thursday 09 November 2006 Message 206: Hi Mike, Just returned from our lovely weekend away and thought I would let you know how much we both enjoyed the Harewood Walk. The weather was fine with only a slight bit of drizzle but that didn't bother us at all. We started at the big gates at Wike and soon passed some mountain bikers coming towards us, the views of the house from the start are very impressive. The walk had some lovely views but most impressive was a big stag with his herd running up the rolling hills along side us then stopping dead when they saw us and quickly ran away sensing danger !! I was lovely to see especially in the flesh. Thanks very much for the walk we really did enjoy it and will go back and take the children. Our next one will be either Brantingham & Elloughton or the Welton Walks, a bit closer to home. Thanks again From: Vincent Knapp Town/City: Brough Country: England Date: Monday 30 October 2006 Message 205: This site is very interesting and beautifully scenic. From: Betty Graham Town/City: Goole, East Yorkshire Country: England Date: Thursday 26 October 2006 Message 204: About to do a couple of Blencathra routes this weekend, 28 October 2006, including Sharp Edge. It is my brother's 50th birthday and a family-free weekend walking in the Lakes is my present to him. Planning a double ascent of Blencathra via Hall's Fell and then down, across and up Sharp Edge. The story and photos of your scramble up Sharp Edge was a great insight into what lies ahead. Looking forward to it even more. Here's to you. From: Steve Hughes Town/City: Hexham, Northumberland Country: England Date: Wednesday 25 October 2006 Message 203: Hello, Just wanted to ask a question about the Harewood Walk in the Leeds/Harrogate section. My wife and I are planning on going away this weekend and I wanted to take her on a short walk (about 2 hours) with some nice scenery, water etc. Saw the Harewood walk and thought this would be a good one to do , not too long and pretty. Just wondered do you actually go into the grounds of Harewood House and therefore do you have to pay to do the walk. We just wanted a relatively short walk so we can do some other things later in the day and wasn't going to visit the house itself, so though it would be a relatively expensive walk. By the way, the website is fantastic with some great walks on, I have enjoyed browsing through them and have printed some off with hope of doing some locally around Hull and when we go away also. Thanks again. "I replied informing Vincent the walk did not require admission fees" From: Vincent Knapp Town/City: Brough Country: England Date: Monday 23 October 2006 Message 202: Thank you for your excellent walking suggestions. We spent 3 weeks in the Yorkshire Dales in September and found your website extremely helpful. The Conistone Dib and Mossdale Scar walk was our favorite. From: Elsbeth Guido Town/City: Zurich Country: Switzerland Date: Thursday 19 October 2006 Message 201: Re: KILNSEY CRAG, MASTILES LANE & MALHAM TARN WALK
What a great site! I was struggling to identify a walk of the right length and degree of challenge for a pal who was visiting me to walk on the Yorkshire Dales. Oh, it had to be circular too! Then I found "The Walking Englishman" and the solution was at hand. Last weekend (early October) we walked the Mastiles & Malham Tarn itinerary and had a great time. To be honest, I didn't expect to be joined by so many others (we must have come across perhaps 100 other walkers during the day) and the trudge along a busier than expected metalled road at the end was a bit of a dull slog, but views up on the hills were magnificient and I would encourage others to take this one on. The going underfoot was pretty good as this site says. Note of caution - when leaving Malham Tarn to head for the farm, follow in the direction of the only row of telephone poles and they'll take you there (the intial path away from the tarn is indistinct). Once at the farm take time to get the map and compass out - there is a coming together of several paths here and it can be confusing picking up the right one. A lovely day and a great blow. Thanks WE for helping us have a splendid time. The world was put to rights too...always a bonus! Robert & Andrew From: Robert Black Town/City: Harrogate Country: England Date: Tuesday 10 October 2006 |
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