Cleveland Way Day 3

We departed our lodgings (at right with flower baskets), grabbed a sandwich from the shop next door, and headed out of town on the trail. 

We learned that this was a pinfold, where stray animals who were grazing where they shouldn't were kept until their owners would pay a fine and claim them.

For much of the day, the trail was stone. Nice surface when it's dry. We did a fair amount of up and down. A good day for our trail runners! We saw a few local runners today. 

We rambled through some woods.

Fabulous heather all day. 

Maybe our first stream crossing. We noted how in the U.S., we see many more streams by trails. 

Look at those stones--it was like walking through someone's garden. 

This is a bronze age burial mound called a round  barrow, from 2000 BCE.

Our afternoon walk followed the edge of the plateau of the moors. For the first time, we encountered other walkers (beyond local hikers) and we could often see them on the ridges ahead of us. 

Late in the walk, we came upon the wainstones, a cluster of craggy sandstone boulders. They reminded us of a stop on the bus trip near Butte where we had some rock play time. 

It rained for our final up and down of the day. 

Which makes for a haunting view. 

Also we made this shaggy friend!