Coast 2 Coast day 10 - Richmond to Lovesome Hill

16 miles traversed today and only got caught in a shower once - for an hour or so! We followed the old railway line out of Richmond to avoid the busy road and picked up the traditional route further down. It's quite pretty along to Catterick and the route follows the river Swale through the countryside and woodlands. At Bolton on Swale we paid our respects to Henry Jenkins. He has a memorial in the church yard and apparently lived to the venerable old age of 169 years!
Back onto the fields and we saw a bull getting rather excited with a cow. We also saw a bit of confused cow on cow action! We got through the field as quickly as we could in case there was any more confusion!
After Catterick the countryside is very flat compared to where we has been. We could be in Hertfordshire to be honest and it was a long slog along the road to Danby Whisk. We did see a Jay along the way though and also several Yellowhammers which we don't tend to see at home. The good news was that unlike AW and Julia Bradbury we found the White Swan in the village to be open! With only a couple of kilometres to go a couple of pints seemed in order! Black Sheeps "Golden Fleece" is rather nice! The pub seems to have been refurbished recently and does evening meals and accommodation for C2Cers who want to break up the 23 miles of the vale of Mowbray. We were doing just that at Lovesome Hill which is slightly off course but there was a handy footpath over the fields. Sadly the footpath doesn't seem to be used very often! We were wading though nettles and weeds along the field edge for the next 1.5km! Not to worry, we soon arrived at the farm and were posted in the camping barn while Mary sorted a couple of things out. Lovesome Farm is a working farm with working farm smells and a Collie Dog for Dawn to play with! The room is lovely and apparently we have lasagne for tea.(Although she hasn't made it yet so it might turn into something else! :-) ).
Nice to get to the digs early as we can chill out for a bit. We strolled out quite well today and averaged over 5km/h which is possibly why we're aching a bit! We are looking forward tomorrow as we're hitting a section of Cleveland Way and might get a bit more height by the end of the day!
More soon!
M&D