The Nidderdale Way: Birstwith to Thornton Moor

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4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Clare Balding nears the end of her walk along The Nidderdale Way, a fifty three mile route, that starts and finishes in Pateley Bridge. Today she walks the most easterly stretch passing through the Ripley Estate, home to the Ingilby family for over seven hundred years. Sir Thomas Ingilby a keen long distance walker, and his wife Lady Emma, explain how they welcome ramblers through the estate and have constructed new paths to ease their way. Producer Lucy Lunt.

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0:38.1	sounds. This is a BBC Radio 4 download. You're listening to me, Claire Balding with another
0:44.5	edition of ramblings. I'm feeling already rather nostalgic about the Niddaer Day Away because
0:51.7	this is my penultimate section. I'm heading due east along the riverbank towards Ripley and then we're going to turn back on
0:58.3	ourselves, head slightly north-northwest for this section.
1:01.7	In the company of Sir Thomas and Lady Ingleby, who are the owners and custodians of Ripley Castle.
1:07.8	But Sir Thomas, you, with your walking staff and I see you've got the full kit on,
1:12.5	you are a very keen walker. I'm a very keen walker. So how many miles would you do on a daily basis
1:17.6	around here? I try and keep above probably seven miles a day, if I can. But if I'm going walking,
1:25.6	I'll do something between 11 miles and 26 miles. I'm doing the
1:30.8	Northumbrian coastal challenge which is 26.2 miles down the coast from Bamborough to
1:36.5	Wellmouth and it's the most beautiful walk and I'm really looking forward to. Oh I'm very keen on
1:41.0	that section it's lovely isn't it? The following weekend I'm doing this route in the opposite direction 20 miles around the Niddardale Way. I'm very keen on that section. It's lovely, isn't there? And on the following weekend, I'm doing this route in the opposite direction,
1:45.6	20 miles round the Niddardale way, again for another sponsorship course.
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