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A thatched cottage in Rievaulx - from the Moorsbus
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Easterside Hill - from the moorsbus
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I got dropped off just back there
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There's me footpath
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Into the wet soggy wilderness of the Magna Via
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Any ideas folks?
petefreeman75:
This ancient track known as the Great Road ( Magna Via) this was the route used by the Conqueror on his return to York in 1069 after his “Harrying” of the North.
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Bilsdale TV mast on the left
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Rising
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Looking up into Tripsdale, from the South
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Looking up (north) Bilsdale to Hasty Bank & Cold Moor
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rising above the farm, upper Bilsdale beyond
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Oh no, cattle ahead
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Glad to get past them cattle
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feels like an real olde road here
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Looking back to Easterside Hill
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Bilsdale from a high stile
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ooops they've seen me, time to go
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The stile onto the moor
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now where is it
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High cloud over Bilsdale
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a bit of a path here
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path then bog, repeat
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Old road or rabbit path
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A view over the top at last
