Askrigg, North Yorkshire, Part I

Today we're going to visit [virtually] the village of Askrigg in the North Yorkshire Dales. You will see that I ended up with a pretty messy map, but it helped me at the time to circle the towns we're going to visit, so that when I looked up from the map and then looked down again at the map, I'd not lost my place.  I'm also hopelessly visual, hence the castle icon at Castle Bolton. I know. It looks kinda like a second grade workbook, doesn't it!

The yellow trail above shows you the route we took from Askrigg to Richmond. From Askrigg, we went up the hills to the Askrigg Common, then down again to Low Row, Grinton, and eventually into Richmond. Having made Leyburn our hub for several nights (it's over toward the bottom right of the map above), it was only a twelve mile trip to Askrigg, although that twelve miles took about a half hour. Am I complaining? Not at all. Dales scenery, even in March, is breathtaking.

But in this, the first of two parts, we're going to wander around the village of Askrigg.

It was a sight we certainly don't see anymore in NW Wisconsin - a milk bottle sitting outside the front door. It was one of the first anachronistic things we noticed about Askrigg. Walking down the streets of this lovely village was like stepping back in time. It just occurred to me that perhaps those milk bottles are really like lawn ornaments, purchased at Tesco. ;-)

Askrigg, like every other Dales village we visited, is made of stone. I always think of the great labor involved in picking all that rock!  Although they're beautiful to look at, I'm sure the farmers who worked in the 'byres' only noticed how miserable, cold, and dank they were. I would imagine that it would take a distance of several years for that memory to ever morph into nostalgia.  Yorkshire winters must be bone chilling.

St. Oswald's Church, erected in 1466. In 1587, Elizabeth I granted a charter for a weekly market to be held in Askrigg. Notice the market cross in the center of the photo.

Church graveyard

Sign on church yard
Placed at dog height,
for the literate pup.

I hope there are no sleep-walkers in the house.

I thought this was such a pretty, terraced garden.

 It was fun to see dogs accompanying their owners almost everywhere! I still like the sign we saw on a pub, 'Dogs and well-behaved children welcome.'

The road sign above, contrary to logic, meant 'national speed limit.'

This building was filmed as 'The Drovers' pub for the TV series All Creatures Great and Small.

Crown Inn, under the same name since 1850
not nearly so impressive if you consider the fact that the pub we went to in Dorstone had been a freehouse since the 12th century!

Crown Inn interior, where we had...

what else: ...fish 'n' chips.

Tile fireplace - A welcome fire on a chilly March day

Askrigg, Part II is going to be mostly photos of the Askrigg Common and the sheep who graze there. Coming soon...  :-)

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