It was a calm night but when I set off at 7am there was thick cloud. I followed the track down the Cupola Corner ruined leadmine buildings then to the road head at Yarnbury. I was now on Moor Lane, a tarmac road, and followed it easily down towards Grassington. Eventually the village appeared below me and many people were about as I walked down the narrow street to the main road and the car park at the Yorkshire Dales information centre.

Moor Lane above Grassington.

Grassington.

It had only just gone 8am and a bus was waiting when I arrived. I jumped on it and paid the £2.70 single fare to Skipton. It didn’t stop at the main bus station but seemed to terminate at the railway station, which I thought odd. I followed a path through the town, over the canal and onto the small bus station. The next bus was to Preston which cost me £4.70 then a short wait for the Chorley bus and home to Whittle.