A perfect day

Dallowgill is a hidden-away corner of the Yorkshire Dales next to Nidderdale.

It’s a good place to avoid the Bank Holiday crowds, queuing to park at Brimham Rocks.

We walked for four hours along drovers’ roads, farm tracks and ancient bridleways and barely met a soul but were accompanied throughout by the sounds of curlews and lapwings.

The route was planned to take in the Drovers Inn, open today because of the Bank Holiday.

We drank the pale, hoppy Hambleton bitter and the horse motif was complemented by two riders turning up for a drink (see picture).

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