Yorkshire Dales, Part Two.
Here are a few more pictures of our break in North Yorkshire - mainly pictures of the small market town that we were just outside. As usual I was drawn to the churchyard...
Hawes is a typical small Yorkshire Dales market town - full of both walkers and dogs.
You can see a typical walker in the first picture, and a couple of dogs in the second one. The Dales seem to be a favourite place for dog-owners to take walking holidays, as well as there being almost as many dogs as people living in the area - or so it seemed!
Hawes really is a market town - here is a picture of the market, taken from the car-park, which is up the hill from the main street -
Then, whilst poor dougalsservant had to work at her computer, I went and nosed around the churchyard and the church (as seen in the second picture of the town).
Rather a nicely unkempt churchyard beside the church -
And the slightly tidier area down from the church towards the main street -
It is a fairly plain church inside - more like ours at home than some of the gloriously decorated ones that keswindhover visits.
Although there is some rather nice carving -
I think, though, that the piece de resistance is the bier - I have a thing for biers!
Although I still wouldn't fancy trying to push a coffin up the path from the main street to the church...
We did get out and about and further afield, too. Under the next cut is a picture of
Castle Bolton, which is a very traditionally shaped castle - four square towers, set into a square, with curtain walls between them.
We decided not to go inside, because we were on our way to another small market town, lower down Wensleydale - Masham. Masham has two claims to fame - the Theakstons Brewery and the Black Sheep Brewery. We chose to visit the smaller, family run, Black Sheep. The family who run it are Theakstons... The bigger firm was taken over by a large brewery chain, and one of the family members decided, after a couple of years, to leave. After a couple of years he came back to Masham and set up a small brewery almost next door to the original, which he named Black Sheep as he was something of the Black Sheep of the family...
Then, in 2003, the other branch of the family bought back their original brewery - so Masham has two breweries, next door to each other, owned by members of the same family!
The tour of the brewery was interesting - and led by a lady who really knew her stuff. There was a good cafe, where we each chose the warm salad topped with bacon, duck and black-pudding - and very tasty it was too, washed down with glasses of very decent ale.
I have more pictures yet - we visited a falconry centre, and travelled on the famous Settle to Carlisle railway as well...
Hawes is a typical small Yorkshire Dales market town - full of both walkers and dogs.
You can see a typical walker in the first picture, and a couple of dogs in the second one. The Dales seem to be a favourite place for dog-owners to take walking holidays, as well as there being almost as many dogs as people living in the area - or so it seemed!
Hawes really is a market town - here is a picture of the market, taken from the car-park, which is up the hill from the main street -
Then, whilst poor dougalsservant had to work at her computer, I went and nosed around the churchyard and the church (as seen in the second picture of the town).
Rather a nicely unkempt churchyard beside the church -
And the slightly tidier area down from the church towards the main street -
It is a fairly plain church inside - more like ours at home than some of the gloriously decorated ones that keswindhover visits.
Although there is some rather nice carving -
I think, though, that the piece de resistance is the bier - I have a thing for biers!
Although I still wouldn't fancy trying to push a coffin up the path from the main street to the church...
We did get out and about and further afield, too. Under the next cut is a picture of
Castle Bolton, which is a very traditionally shaped castle - four square towers, set into a square, with curtain walls between them.
We decided not to go inside, because we were on our way to another small market town, lower down Wensleydale - Masham. Masham has two claims to fame - the Theakstons Brewery and the Black Sheep Brewery. We chose to visit the smaller, family run, Black Sheep. The family who run it are Theakstons... The bigger firm was taken over by a large brewery chain, and one of the family members decided, after a couple of years, to leave. After a couple of years he came back to Masham and set up a small brewery almost next door to the original, which he named Black Sheep as he was something of the Black Sheep of the family...
Then, in 2003, the other branch of the family bought back their original brewery - so Masham has two breweries, next door to each other, owned by members of the same family!
The tour of the brewery was interesting - and led by a lady who really knew her stuff. There was a good cafe, where we each chose the warm salad topped with bacon, duck and black-pudding - and very tasty it was too, washed down with glasses of very decent ale.
I have more pictures yet - we visited a falconry centre, and travelled on the famous Settle to Carlisle railway as well...