Scenes from Middlesmoor, Yorkshire Pt.6

It's Saturday 6th September and it does not feel like Autumn, it feels like Winter! I walked first thing this morning before the rain came (at least we do not have floods like some parts of the country) and it just seems to have got colder. I lay on the sofa for a short nap after lunch and got so cold (surely it is not time for a throw yet) and I hear hubby saying looks like we will be needing the central heating on. Oh! no, not yet, then it really feels like Winter. So with just enough time to do a post before I have to go out to a local church anniversary and reunion I am wearing a thick woollen jacket and trying to type with cold hands! How wonderful I hear my blogging friends from Southern California saying. Well for the moment lets forget reality and get back to Yorkshire. I would suggest double clicking to really see the details on the moors.

Having been fortified with tea we have left the Gorge and are driving another 3 miles to the village of Middlesmoor in Nidderdale. Middlesmoor is a delightful and tiny village, consisting of a few dwellings, a pub and a church, sitting right on top of the moor. We parked the car after driving up a twisty and narrow 1 in 4 gradient. Just after the small car park the road petered out and became a farm track.

I just loved the cottages set on the hill in a little cluster alongside the church. I am sure you will love them too if you come along with me.

What a lovely place to dry the washing

The road peters out to a farm track just behind us

Do you see the vase of flowers sitting in the wall

A back garden

An unusual front garden

Very apt as the moors are full of sheep

We are told that the best view is from the churchyard

See the reservoir in the distance

That is the one we drove past earlier this afternoon

Hubby is wondering if I am going to be finished before it starts to rain

Our way into the churchyard - sheep country!

And our way out

The backyard of a lovely house next to the church - what a view

I think that is it for today. We need to retrace our steps back past the gorge, the reservoir, Plately Bridge and then take a different route back to Harrogate across a different Dale so missing Darley Mill. We have had an interesting and full day.

I wonder what is in store for tomorrow?