DATES FOR YOUR DIARY Association MARCH 12-17 Holiday: Mallorca Newsletter 13 Short Walk: Fairburn Ings area 16 Social Evening and Quiz, New Earswick Bowls Club, 7.30pm 24 Annual General Meeting, talk and lunch, Hilton Hotel, 10.30 am 28 Tours Advisory Group meeting, Walmgate Ale House, 10 am 28 Drop-in lunch, Walmgate Ale House & Bistro from 12 noon

APRIL 7 Full-day walk: Farndale 10-14 Holiday: Archaeologist’s View of Wessex 12 Short Walk: Malton area 21 Talk: The Great Siege of York in 1644 25 Drop-in lunch, Walmgate Ale House & Bistro from 12 noon 26 Afternoon Tea Dance, St Andrew’s Church Hall, Bishopthorpe, 2.30pm

MAY 19 Full-day walk: Settle area 23 Visit: Scampston Walled Garden and Birdsall House 30 Drop-in lunch, Walmgate Ale House & Bistro from 12 noon

JUNE 11-15 Holiday: Guernsey An Association of 16 Full-day walk: South Cave area 25 Summer Garden Party, Beningbrough Gardens National Trust Members 26 Visit: Barnsdale Gardens and Rutland Water and Supporters 27 Drop-in lunch, Walmgate Ale House & Bistro from 12 noon

Please send contributions and photographs for the June Newsletter to Catherine Brophy [email protected] by Wednesday May 9. March 2018 Number 184

Printed by Print Solutions, Audax Close, Clifton Moor, York, YO30 4RA. (01904 690090) Contents originally the kitchen garden and orchard, but was laid to grass when the Page Trust took over in 1975. A £300,000 bequest helped pay for the restoration of the garden and vine house which we see today; where careful inspection AGM and Lunch 3 will show that liquorice is still grown in . Tours Advisory Group Meeting 3 Chairman’s Letter 4 Membership 5 The shape of the Bouchier Knott is cut into the grass as a Parterre at the Talks 5 south front of the house, and is matched in the Arms above the main door. Social and Fundraising Events 6 The potting shed should not be missed, here can be seen a heated potting Day trips 7 bench and heated garden wall; all part of the hidden secrets of Country walks 10 Beningbrough. Holidays 14 Holiday review: 15 Talk Reviews 16 70 members and friends thoroughly enjoyed Bob’s illustrated talk, and were NT Yorkshire News 19 grateful for his enthusiasm as a garden volunteer at Beningbrough Hall Dates for your Diary Back cover gardens. Roger Armistead Enclosed with this Newsletter is AGM information in the middle pages and booking forms for Day Trips, Full Day Walks and Social Activities (3 pages). News from the NT in Yorkshire Please contact the Newsletter editor if any of these are missing.

Chairman: Roger King [email protected] 01904 761274 Nunnington Hall: Exhibitions to see here in Spring 2018

Secretary: Jean Haywood [email protected] 01904 70240 "The Gadget King (Heath Robinson)" to 25th March followed by

Treasurer: Roger Mortimer [email protected] 01757 268118 "A sense of place - the National Trust in the North", a unique art exhibition featuring works by four Yorkshire artists from 31st March to 13th May Membership: Elinor Bailey [email protected] 01347 821262 Day Trips: Colin Sherwood [email protected] 01904 640915 Nostell Priory: Celebrating 300 years since Thomas Chippendale’s birth in Walks: Alison Rutter [email protected] 01904 703430 Otley in 1718.

Holidays: Peter Drew [email protected] 01904 702285 The house will be displaying original paperwork: letters, bills and other Events: Christine Truman [email protected] 01937 541163 documents, which tell the colourful story of Chippendale as a tradesman Website: Mike Morrow [email protected] 01904 654546 alongside his furniture and other design work.

Talks: Roger Armistead [email protected] 01904 622989 Newsletter: Catherine Brophy [email protected] 01904 331273

Cover: Beningbrough Garden in summer ©National Trust Images/Ian Shaw

2 19 water, hulls cleaned and re-coated with anti-foul. Mererid’s husband 47th AGM and Lunch, Saturday 24th March travelled out at the end of term for a brief reunion; the race re-started on At the Hilton Hotel, Tower Street, York Christmas Eve. Race 7 was on to Singapore, 4,500nm. As it was the hurricane season, the We are delighted to welcome as our speaker Dr. Peter Addyman, who fleet avoided the Torres Strait and went around Papua New Guinea and founded the York Archaeological Trust in 1972, an independent charity sailed through the Celebes and Sula Seas between Malaysia and the established "to investigate the past for the benefit of present communities Philippines, experiencing high humidity, tropical storms, fleets of fishing and future generations". He retired as Director in 2002. He was awarded the vessels and a warning of pirates. CBE in 2000, is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquities (FSA) and in 2015 he was awarded the President's Medal by the British Academy (the UK's national Details of Race 8 to 14 are available in the longer version of this review on the academy for the humanities and social sciences) in recognition of his YANT website. significant efforts in making archaeology and historic heritage publicly Race 15 returned to the Solent: 260nm through the Straits of Dover and accessible. He is currently President of York Civic Trust. down the English Channel, where “Singapore” came second, thus finishing in 3rd place overall. The fleet passed Calshot Spit in single file and then Do join us for the short formal AGM at 11am; tea and coffee are available for assembled in formation to be led to the finish at Netley, led by Sir Robin everyone from 10.30am. Guests are welcome but may not vote at the AGM. Knox-Johnston’s 32ft ketch “Suhaili”. The fleet then motored into Ocean Village Marina in reverse order for the prize-giving reception before being re- A two-course lunch will follow the talk, for which a menu and booking form united with loved ones on the quayside after the experience of a lifetime. were included with the December newsletter and which are available on the website. At 12.45pm the Conservatory Bar will open, and remain available Celia Rutt and Colin Sherwood throughout lunch. Lunch is served at 1.30pm and the event concludes at 3.30pm. Booking deadline is 10th March. Bob Mansfield. “Hidden Secrets of Beningbrough” on January 20.

Tours Advisory Group Meeting Timber-built in 1590, and rebuilt in 1716 in the Italian Baroque style for Sir John Bouchier, Beningbrough Hall and estate gradually reduced in size from 2018/19 Holidays 16,000 acres to 320 acres, when the reclusive Lady Chesterfield died and Wednesday 28th March, 10 am government, in lieu of death duties, accepted the estate. The building was in Walmgate Ale House, 25 Walmgate, York poor condition, having been requisitioned for the Canadian Air Force in WW11, and was tenanted at £1 per month up to the 1970’s. Peter Drew, YANT tours organiser, and Andrew Sharples from Brightwater The National Portrait Gallery now maintains the Hall, and the gardens are Holidays will discuss with YANT members how they think the tours should be under the care of NT staff and volunteers, including Bob. run and where and when we should go and which properties to visit.

2016 was the 300th anniversary of the Hall, when 300,000 snowdrops and Space is limited to 40 members, so please let Peter Drew know if you are 100,000 narcissi and crocus were planted on the Ha-ha walk. The American coming. garden was a new and fashionable C18th addition where exotic species from Phone: 01904 702285 / 07510 673599 Email: [email protected] around the world were displayed - Swamp Cypress, Tulip Tree, Coxcomb Beech, Mulberry; and the inevitable rhododendron. The latest addition is a young Handkerchief Tree, which is now growing well. The Walled Garden was

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Chairman's Letter escorted by HMS Illustrious and an armada of spectator boats, and made their way to Cowes for the 16:30 start; an opportunity for “ordinary people How quickly, each New Year, is the AGM upon us, and as usual, I start by to do something extraordinary”. Race 1 was a quick sprint to Madeira, 1,340 making the annual plea for new elected members on the committee. Equally, nm, including a calm crossing of the Bay of Biscay. Race 2 was on to Rio de the three sub-committees will welcome new members. The majority of the Janeiro, 3,850nm, with steadily rising temperatures but avoiding the members of all committees have given several years of sterling service and, Doldrums. The trade winds continue to carry the clipper south and across myself included, some are hinting at retiring in the near future. I assume the Equator and “Singapore” crossed the line in the shadow of Sugar Loaf members do not want to see a reduction in the events organised each year Mountain in third place, despite the need for a Heath-Robinson repair but this may happen if the membership of the sub-committees in particular required to the steering and damage to one of the spinnakers. In Rio the does not recruit "new blood". The sub-committees function as teams to team had to re-provision and modify planned menus to accommodate local make service on them a sharing, enjoyable and rewarding experience. availability, which then had all to be packed into waterproof bags (one for each day until the next port) and stored securely under our bunks, odd and One area of assistance, which would be of great benefit to YANT as a whole, even on opposite sides, working from bow to stern so that the boat remained is a publicity officer to promote through local media a greater awareness of balanced as they were consumed. our "open" events. Please contact me if you can help in this way. That said, we owe a debt of gratitude to Mike Morrow for taking on the management For Race 3 to Cape Town, 3,400nm, the boat headed into the South Atlantic and improvement of the website and creating a Facebook page. (You will be and then the fringes of the Southern Ocean, where an albatross flew into a relieved to know that your chairman has a head in the sand attitude to social shroud. “Singapore” crossed the finish line in Table Bay in fourth place and media and will not be tweeting at all hours of the day and night!) then motored to their berth in the Victoria and Albert Marina. Race 4 was from Cape Town to Geraldton, Western Australia 4,800mn, and was A new recruitment leaflet has been produced and if you attend the AGM you considered by many to be one of the biggest challenges. The boat followed will find one on your seat with a mission for everyone there to recruit a new Latitude 41S but at 43S “Qingdao” saw an iceberg, so a order was issued and member. all bulkhead doors had to be closed until moving further north approaching the finish. At one point all 3 spinnakers were in need of repair, so Mererid Roger King dropped the watch system and spent the time patching and machining until two were fit to fly again. This lost time and they arrived last. It then took two days spread out in a local high school sports hall in Geraldton to repair

the last one, as it was the size of a tennis court. Race 5 was on to Tauranga, New Website Reminder New Zealand, 3,600 nm, but this did not go according to plan. The steering gave way again but there was no onboard solution and no part could be More information and reviews are on the website at www.yant.org.uk found in the stores the fleet carried so Clipper HQ had to make arrangements for us to put into Queenscliffe, near Melbourne. The local yacht club Username is: member Password is: yantmember effected a speedy repair but by then the boat was so far behind the rest of the fleet that last place was accepted and the “Singapore” made its way around the north of New Zealand motoring or sailing depending on the wind, while the fleet rounded South Island. Race 6 was on to Gold Coast, Queensland, 1,370nm, by a short, high-speed dash across the Tasman and Coral Seas, arriving on 13th December. Here, the boats were lifted out of the

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Membership

At present we have 629 members, and are pleased to have welcomed the following to membership over the past three months.

William Dean Leslie & Janet Patman Carol Mennell

Will members please note that subscriptions were due at the beginning of January, and anyone who has not fully paid up by the AGM in March will have their membership lapsed and this will be their last Newsletter. Reminders are not being sent out by post this year, so this is your final reminder. Cheques for either £8 or £14 should be made out to YANT and sent to The Membership Secretary, 24 Stillington Oaks, , York, YO61 3GP. Thank you. Elinor Bailey, Membership Secretary YANT members at the new Foss Barrier, Autumn 2017

Talks Talk Reviews Talks are held at Friends Meeting House in Friargate, and last for about 45 Mererid Hunt, “A Year at Sea”, October 21 2017 (edited review) minutes, with time for questions afterwards. A charge of £4 is made at the door. Members and friends are very welcome. Tea and Coffee is available to Mererid gave a fascinating talk about her memorable round the world trip as buy in the foyer. a paying volunteer on the Round the World Clipper Race, founded by Sir st Robin Knox-Johnson. This is the world’s longest race at over 41,000 nautical Saturday April 21 at 2.30pm miles (nm), and the only such event organised for amateurs. The race comprises 8 legs and 15 individual races to gain points and decide the overall Russell Marwood: “English Civil War: the Great Siege of York in 1644” winner. The adventure started with an interview at Clipper Headquarters in Gosport, when she was accepted for the programme of training, 4 weeks on Dressed in character Russell Marwood, Battle Field Historian and Musketeer, the water and a week on theory. The crew allocation was announced on 3th will give us a ringside seat at the 1644 “Great Siege of York”; the last and only April when the 10 race skippers were announced and they read out their time that York's medieval walls were put to the test. The Royalist city crew lists. The final training week was in June 2011, aboard “Singapore” with survived a three-month siege by Parliamentary and Scottish armies, before the skipper and some of her fellow sailors. Parliament won the Battle of Marston Moor, the City gates were opened, and General Thomas Fairfax saved York from despair. There will be artefacts to On Sunday 31st July, after a presentation, 10 identical 68ft masthead cutters, handle to enrich the experience. each sponsored by a corporation or city, paraded down Southampton Water, Roger Armistead

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Social and Fundraising Events Holiday Review

On November 30 we welcomed The Shepherd Concert Band to St Andrew’s Review: Glasgow Christmas Special December 5-7 2017 Church, Bishopthorpe for the Winter Concert, our final fundraising event of An overcast Tuesday morning saw 20 of us, accompanied by our guide 2017. Despite a tremendous storm raging outside this was a wonderful Alastair Walker, set off from Memorial Gardens. A picturesque drive across concert that was much appreciated by the audience. "the roof of " and a diversion to the northern end of Ullswater took us to our morning break. We then continued to the outskirts of Glasgow for Thursday April 26 Afternoon Tea with music “(and a little dancing)”, St our lunch stop at the Westerwood Hotel. After lunch we continued into the Andrew’s Church hall, Bishopthorpe, YO23 2QG. £12 per person city where Alastair pointed out many of the impressive buildings for which Please come along to this event, repeated by popular demand, for what Glasgow is famous such as the Cathedral, Necropolis, the People's Palace, promises to be a great afternoon. “M & S” music will be entertaining us Provand's Lordship and the City Chambers. As darkness fell we reached our whilst we enjoy a delicious afternoon tea, and for some perhaps a little base for the tour, the Pond Hotel. dancing. Everyone is very welcome and this is a good opportunity for new members to join us. Booking form enclosed with this newsletter. Wednesday was a free day to visit some of the many attractions Glasgow has to offer. The majority decided to visit Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery. The Summer Garden Party will be held on Monday June 25 at Beningbrough The museum opened in 1901 and is a firm favourite with local people and Hall gardens at 2.30pm. We will have sole use of the gardens and have visitors. It has striking architecture and a friendly welcoming atmosphere. arranged for the Head Gardener to talk to us and guide us around the There are 22 galleries featuring everything from one of the greatest art gardens. The gardens are being redeveloped and in June we will be able to collections in Britain to animals and Ancient Egypt to Charles Rennie see them at their best. A delicious picnic tea will be provided in the gardens, Mackintosh. Many of us enjoyed an organ recital at lunchtime audible while if fine, or in the restaurant if wet. We will also be providing a coach to and we explored the galleries. We left the museum for an early dinner before from York. Booking form enclosed with this newsletter. setting off to the Royal Concert Hall for the evening performance of the John Wilson Orchestra. The orchestra is on tour with a brand-new tribute to the great M.G.M. musicals. The orchestra was joined by the Maida Vale Singers and vocalists Matt Ford amd Louise Dearman. They combined with the orchestra to give a memorable performance.

On Thursday we checked out of the hotel and set off on a tour of the Trossachs National Park, the first to be established in Scotland in 2002. Fortunately the weather was clear enough for us to enjoy the rugged scenery which includes 21 Monros (mountains over 3000 feet), and several lochs. We stopped briefly to see the historic steamship Sir Walter Scott on Loch Katrine before moving on to the Buchanan Arms in Drymen where we enjoyed a splendid Christmas lunch. We then set off on a smooth and uneventful journey back to York, thanks to Darren our excellent driver, having enjoyed a memorable pre-Christmas break. Beningbrough Walled garden ©National Trust Images/Chris Lacey Roger Bridgewater.

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Holidays As St Crux is undergoing repairs to the fabric until the autumn we will not be holding the usual Summer Fair. However we have a number of autumn During 2017 94 members took part in holidays (120 members in 2016), events planned including a session with Chocolatier: Andrew Thwaite, who including 13 new members (20 in 2016), to 6 destinations. provides chocolate samples to his audience, and a further Film Archive show. The last holiday of 2017 (completed after the last Newsletter) was to More details will be available in the June newsletter. Glasgow where 20 members attended the “John Wilson and his Orchestra Show”, a very lively show, enjoyed by everyone. A review of that trip is We do hope to see many of you at future events. available on the next page. Christine Truman, Chairman Projects Group

Bookings so far for 2018 holidays are:- Day Trips

Mallorca (12-17 March): 9 - 8 twin / double, 5 single available Wednesday May 23: Visit to Scampston Walled Garden and Birdsall House Wessex (10-14 April): 14 - 8 twin / double, 4 single available. Guernsey (11-15 June): 12 - 10 twin / double, 2 single available Our May trip will explore two beautiful locations in God’s own county. In the Bulgaria (7-14 Aug): 27 - 4 twin / double, singles on request available morning we will visit Scampston Walled Garden, an exciting modern garden Scottish Steam: (13 – 16 Oct) 17 - 3 twin / double, 6 single available. designed for the Legard family by the internationally renowned Dutch Winter Special TBC in June Newsletter, when bookings will be taken. plantsman, Piet Oudolf. Set within the C18th walls of the original kitchen garden of Scampston Hall, the garden is divided into nine separate areas, Full details and photographs are available on the YANT Members website each with its own distinctive character. There is a long border walk around Please Book direct with Brightwater Holidays using the form at the back of the perimeter wall with mainly spring flowering shrubs. The central area the 2018 Holiday Programme Booklet, also available on the website. with its series of individual “rooms” has at its heart a perennial flower meadow and dipping pond. The recently restored Victorian conservatory 79 bookings to date! houses a fascinating exhibition on the history of Scampston and the YANT Tours Organiser Peter Drew restoration project.

In the afternoon we will visit Birdsall, a C16th house set on the edge of the

Yorkshire Wolds. Since the Tudor era the house has undergone various Reviews alterations and extensions including work by the Victorian architect, Anthony

Salvin. Home to the Willoughby family for 700 years, the house contains a Editor’s note: All reviews are available online in full, however because of space limitations they may be edited for inclusion in the printed newsletter. There are also wonderful collection of antique furniture and paintings. Amongst the many photographs of holidays and day trips on the website at www.yant.org.uk family’s illustrious ancestors were Hugh Willoughby who died in 1553 trying to find the North East Passage to the Spice Islands, Francis Willoughby, naturalist and founder of the Royal Society and Nesbit Willoughby, a rather reckless figure in the British Navy, on whose character the Hornblower series are supposedly based.

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Our first stop of the day will be at Scampston Walled Garden. On arrival Horseshoes pub, where lunch will be available and may be ordered in there will be a short introduction to the garden and then coffee/tea and advance. biscuits will be served in the Garden Café. After that you will have time to stroll around the gardens at your leisure, visit the restored conservatory, Thursday April 12 Malton area. Leader: Joyce Costello. (01904 629312) plant nursery, shop and have some lunch. Lunch will be on an individual 4.5 miles An easy walk exploring some of Malton’s history with some street basis. Please note that the Walled Garden and Garden Café are fully walking. Park and meet on the field opposite the Royal Oak pub at 47, Town accessible though care should be taken in the gardens, as there could be Street, Old Malton, YO17 7HB for a 10am start. Food is available at the pub slippery surfaces and uneven ground. afterwards. Travelling from York on the A64 either: i) Go through Malton and follow the road straight ahead into Old Malton, The coach will depart at 1.30pm for the short drive to Birdsall (about 20-25 continuing until you see the pub on your left or minutes). On arrival at Birdsall, we will be divided into groups for a private ii) Continue on the A64 until you see the exit for /Pickering/Malton. guided tour of the house. This will be for about 60 minutes. Afternoon tea Follow this for a short distance to a roundabout and take the 3rd exit - B1257. will then be served and if time allows, an opportunity to explore the gardens. Follow this road (Town Street, Old Malton) until you see the pub on your Please note that with interesting old houses there can be uneven floors, right. We first tried this walk in the autumn of 2016. On the day it rained unexpected steps and low doorways. This is a private house, not normally heavily! We feel it would be good to give it another try. Hopefully the open to the public, and members of the Historic Houses Association are not weather will be kinder this time. eligible for a discount. June and July half-day works will be announced in the June newsletter. Ingleby’s coach will pick up at Memorial Gardens, Leeman Road, York, at 9.15am and at Middlethorpe Drive, Dringhouses, at 9.30am. The journey Please park with consideration where roadside/village parking is involved. time will be about one hour. The coach will depart from Birdsall at 4.30pm An administration charge of £1 will be collected on each half-day walk. and estimated arrival time back in York at 5.30pm. If you would like a lift for any walk or can offer one to others, please contact Eileen Wishart on 01904 633705. The cost of the trip is £36, which includes coach hire, entrance to Scampston NB. Walkers participate at their own risk and must be capable of Walled Garden and morning refreshments, private visit with guided tour and completing the distance over uneven ground with some hill ascents in a afternoon tea at Birdsall and coach driver’s gratuity. variety of weather conditions. Suitable clothing and footwear must be worn and light refreshments carried. The day trip leader will carry mobile phone no. 07960 710975. Please call this number on the day if you are delayed or cannot attend. We have tight Suggestions for walks and offers to lead are always welcome. If you can help, schedules and we try not to delay our departure. please contact Alison Rutter on 01904 703430 or [email protected] or me on 01904 633705 or [email protected] Tuesday June 26. Visit to Barnsdale Gardens and a Cruise on Rutland Water. Eileen Wishart (Secretary) Our June trip takes us south down to Rutland, England’s smallest and arguably prettiest county. This county certainly lives up to its motto of

“Multum in Parvo” which means “Much in Little”. We will be visiting Barnsdale Gardens, designed by Geoff Hamilton, who presented BBC Gardener’s World from 1979 until his death in 1996. When Hamilton bought

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Saturday June 16 CWP 2018/3. South Cave area. Leader: Dorothy Pope the property in 1986 it was a Victorian farmhouse with 5 acres of (mobile: 07985 553523) Standard moderate. pastureland. Most of the land was ploughed up, one or two mature trees We start with a short tour of Caistor before beginning our walk along the and shrubs were transplanted from his former home, and then under the Viking Way. We pass through several villages with names ending in ‘by’, gaze of millions of television viewers, Hamilton transformed the area into the denoting the Viking influence in the area. We also pass some fine churches beautiful gardens, which you see today. These award-winning gardens built with money from the wool trade in the 12th and 14th centuries and showcase 38 individually themed garden “rooms” including a rose garden, follow the spring line of the northwest escarpment. It will be possible to Japanese garden, rock garden, fruit garden, kitchen garden, bog garden and rejoin the coach at Bigby, after about 6 miles. Some stiles and a steep ascent orchard. and descent at the beginning of the walk, then gentle undulations. We finish the walk at Barnetby station where we meet the coach to take us to South In the afternoon we will take a relaxing cruise aboard the Rutland Belle Cave for tea provided by the WI. This will include a ham salad. Please indicate around Rutland Water, one of the largest artificial lakes in Europe. The any dietary requirements- eg a vegetarian option - on the booking form. Gwash Valley near Emphingham was dammed in 1975 leading to the formation of a reservoir which now provides a water supply to one of the Ingleby’s coach leaves the Memorial Gardens, Leeman Road, at 8 30am and driest and most densely populated areas of the UK. Rutland Water is Rawcliffe Bar Park and Ride at 8 45am. surrounded by pretty countryside which offers a haven for wildlife and Cost per head is £ 23, which includes coach travel, tea and all gratuities. boasts a Site of Special Scientific Interest, Nature Reserves and important Please send booking slip and payment to Ms Eileen Wishart, 21, Cayley Close, wetland sites. YORK YO30 5PT to reach her by Saturday June 9. Our first visit will be to Barnsdale. After a short introduction, you will be free NB. Walkers participate at their own risk and must be capable of to wander on a self-guided basis around the gardens, plant nursery and gift completing the distance in open countryside over uneven ground, with shop. An included light lunch of sandwiches, cakes, tea/coffee will be served some ascents and descents in a variety of weather conditions. Suitable in the Tea Room. Please note that most of the gardens are easily accessible clothing and footwear must be worn and a packed lunch and drinks carried. and there is plenty of seating provided. Care should be taken, as there could be slippery surfaces and uneven ground. RHS Members are not Details of full day walks in July and September will be given in the June eligible for a discount at Barnsdale. Newsletter. The coach will depart at 2.30pm for the very short drive to Whitwell Harbour Circular half day walks using own transport. for the cruise on Rutland Water. The Rutland Belle accommodates 110 passengers with seating both inside and on deck. The boat is equipped with Tuesday March 13 Fairburn Ings area. Leaders: Alison and Nigel Rutter. toilets and drinks are available on an individual basis. The cruise, with (07523 944065 or 01904 703430) 5 miles (2 ½ hours walking time) commentary, will last approximately one hour. Please note that there will This is an easy 5-mile walk, leaving from Cut Road, Fairburn, at 10am. On be a gangway and steps to negotiate onto the boat. good paths the route goes around the lakes at Fairburn Ings to the visitor centre (toilets are available there), then continues on field paths to Ledsham Ingleby’s coach will pick up at Memorial Gardens, Leeman Road, York, at before returning to Fairburn. The path is gently undulating and there are a 8.00am and Middlethorpe Drive, Dringhouses, at 8.15am. The journey time few stiles. May be muddy after rain. Take the A1M south to J42, then the will be around 2.5 hours with a coffee and comfort stop on the way. The A63 towards Leeds. At the 3rd roundabout turn left onto the A1264 to coach will depart from Whitwell Harbour around 4.15pm. There will be a Fairburn. At the T-junction turn left and park at the roadside near the Three

12 9 short comfort stop on the way back and the estimated arrival time in York Saturday April 7 CWP 2018/1 Farndale. Leader: Tony Brook. Distance 7 ½ will be between 6.30pm-7.00pm miles. Standard moderate. This walk from Blakey Ridge, then down Farndale, including the Daffodil Walk The cost of the trip is £36, which includes coach hire, entrance to Barnsdale between Church Houses and Low Mill, is a mixture of riverside, country and Gardens and light lunch, a cruise on Rutland Water and coach driver’s moorland tracks with lots of daffodils. Hopefully we will get panoramic views gratuity. (if the weather obliges on the day) over Farndale and the moors, and on our descent into the valley. Some care may be needed on this section, depending The day trip leader will carry mobile phone no. 07960 710975. Please call on conditions on the day, before reaching the upper Farndale Road. this number on the day if you are delayed or cannot attend. We have tight Tea at Methodist Church will include a ham salad and trifle. Please schedules and we try not to delay our departure. indicate any dietary requirements – eg a vegetarian option - on the booking form. Ingleby’s coach leaves the Memorial Gardens, Leeman Road, at 8 Country Walks 45am and Rawcliffe Bar Park and Ride at 9am. The cost per head is £21, Social evening and quiz, Friday March 16 which includes coach travel, tea and all gratuities. Please send the booking slip and payment to Ms Eileen Wishart, 21, Cayley Close, YORK YO30 5PT to There is still time to book our annual social evening, which will be held at the reach her by Saturday March 31. New Earswick and District Bowls Club, Huntington Road, York, starting at 7. 30pm. A cash bar will open at 7pm. Saturday May 19 CWP 2018/2. A circular walk in the Yorkshire Dales (Settle area) Leaders Stephen and Anne Walsh. Distance 7 miles. There will be the usual quiz, with Roger King and Alison Rutter asking the Standard moderate: steady inclines and not much road walking. questions. Participants will be placed in teams of four. Those booking Starting from the car park in Settle we walk to Victoria Cave, where bones of together will be placed in the same team; otherwise please enter your mammoths, elephants and hippos were unearthed, together with Roman preferences on the booking form and we shall do our best to accommodate artefacts. We continue through lovely Dales scenery, with views of two of the them. three peaks, to Stainforth. The route then follows the river to Stackhouse, past Giggleswick School, and back into Settle. Tea provided by St John’s The Bowls Club will again provide a buffet supper with a variety of savoury Methodist Church, Settle. This will be a salad buffet with ham, cheese, quiche items plus scones with jam and cream, cake and tea and coffee. There will etc. and assorted cakes. Please indicate any dietary requirements eg a also be an optional raffle. The evening usually ends around or before 10pm. vegetarian option - on the booking form. Tickets cost £12.50, to include supper. To reserve a place please contact Ingleby’s coach leaves the Memorial Gardens, Leeman Road, at 8 15am and Eileen Wishart on 01904 633705, before Wednesday March 14. Admission is Rawcliffe Bar Park and ride at 8 30am. Cost per head is £22, which includes £12.50, including supper coach travel, tea and all gratuities. Please send the booking slip and payment All are welcome – walkers, non-walkers and friends – and we look forward to to Ms Eileen Wishart, 21, Cayley Close, YORK YO30 5PT, by May 12. seeing you there.

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