East Cowton is one of those out of the way villages that one drives past when going from Richmond to Middlesborough on the Scorton road. In fact it's a delightful, quiet little village with an excellent pub called "The Bees Wing" - evidently after a long dead famous racehorse.
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| St Mary's South Cowton |
Anyway, this was a great walk led by Nicky that was an easy level walk with surprisingly good views that wove its way on a complex 6.3 mile circuit taking in a the neighbouring village of North Cowton and the lovely, now redundant church of St Mary's at the now at the site of the medieval village of South Cowton, where we stopped for our coffee break. The church and the castle across the meadows was built by Sir Richard Conyers during 1450 - 1470, but sadly the village declined and depopulated after the Wars of the Roses and was abandoned and cleared for pastures.
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| Flock of friendly Llamas |
Nicky did warn us about the difficult stiles which did delay us somewhat - however, we all managed them and top marks to Dorothy who allowed us to help/lift her over the more challenging obstacles. Hence our well earned soup and sandwich lunch at pub was very welcome.
Many thanks Nicky - maybe the Army at Catterick could use this route as a commando/obstacle course since even they may find the stiles (obstacles) a little challenging? But you did warn us.
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