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10 Days Driving & Walking Tour,

The Liverpool Mercury,

1900

[This section is under construction].

10 Days Driving & Walking Tour, The Liverpool Mercury,1900

(courtesy of the Dales Countryside Museum, Hawes)

The following is a transcription from the above Book:

Transcribed from The Liverpool Mercury, 1900

p.?  ... Passing on, we enter Bishopdale, and we are to pass this dale for many miles to our destination for this day - Kettlewell. Leaving now the Ure Valley, we pass within a short distance of Thoralby. Halting a while and looking back we have a fine view of the well-wooded country, where Bishopdale joins Wensleydale. A few miles further brings us to Street Head Inn, a lonely roadside public-house, where we have our mid-day meal. This is an old inn, part of which dates from before the Reformation. There is an old barn near here, which bears the date 1492. ...

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