Day 15 Oaktree Hill to Ingleby Cross (plus loop to Osmotherley & Mt Grace Priory) (24Km, total ascent 404m)

Day 15 Oaktree Hill to Ingleby Cross -via Osmotherley. (24Km, total ascent 404m)

After a good breakfast at Lovesome Hill Farm, where we met Steve and Vic who are doing the Coast to Coast in sections, we walked to Ingleby Cross, through and around fields of barley and rapeseed, arriving at 12:30pm.   It was too early for the B&B so we went down to the local pub The Blue Bell Inn for a lunch of a very salty vegetable soup. We then set out up the hill to Osmotherley where we found a good tearooms and had sandwiches and coffee.  Given our long lunch we didn't need dinner, so we took a couple of scones home from the tearooms.

The route

We visited Mount Grace Priory and whilst there it began raining.  We made our way back along a muddy track and down to Ingleby Cross and were quite wet by the time we arrived at the B&B.  With our little extension we had managed to convert a short 12 Km day into a 24 Km walk.  Josephine at the B&B gave us a fabulous welcome with homemade scones, homemade jam and clotted cream.  A Devonshire tea here in Yorkshire.

We look across from Lovesome Hill Farm towards Ingleby Cross and the Cleveland Hills

We head up the track watched by many eyes

Another helpful sign.

A bit of fun sharing the stile with a pair of rats

The path through the barley leads to the train line

Rapeseed, the fields of yellow.

The Cleveland Hills loom closer.

Ahead is tomorrows challenge, climbing the Cleveland Hills,.  Today's is crossing the A19, no footbridge or underpass.

Water Tower in Ingleby Cross Built in 1915

Ingleby Cross:  Ingleby is derived from the norse for 'Village of English', here is the cross.

The Blue Bell Inn

View back across the Mowbray Vale with its fields of barley and rapeseed, to the Peninnes in the distance.

A Robin in Osmotherley.

One of the many old buildings in Osmotherley.

Church in Osmotherley.

Osmotherley:  The Golden Lion and the Boot and Coffee Shop.  Note the telephone booth and...

an AED (defibrillator) next to the phone booth in Osmotherley.

Clematis

A walk back through the woods to the...

Manor House at Mount Grace Priory.

Elaine on the  manor House stairway.

Mount Grace Priory Ruins.

Panorama of ruins at Mount Grace Priory.

Geese and Ducks in the field next to our B&B

Oxford Down Sheep in the field as well.