As part of a weekend away in Masham to celebrate my wife, Gaynor’s big birthday, a group of us set off on a 7 mile walk following the River Ure and returning through woodland, fields and through the village of Swinton, past the magnificent Swinton Park.
Our base for the weekend was The White Bear, a Theakston’s pub. Beautiful rooms, excellent food and beer, and friendly staff. What more could you want?
The market square and St Mary’s Church
Heading down Millgate.
The Grade 2 listed Mill House was built in the early 18th century.
A cabbage white butterfly
Poppies in a field of clover.
Hogweed gone to seed
Thistledown
Wonder what Albert’s rolling in…
A bit of a breather near Nutwith Cote Farm
The River Ure
A field barn on Nutwith Cote Farm
Himalayan Balsam, also known as Policeman’s Helmet, is an invasive, non-native plant. Pretty, though, isn’t it?
Nutwith Cote Wood
Heading up onto Nutwith Common
A distant view of Masham from pretty much the furthest point on the walk on Nutwith Common
The tallest bracken I’ve ever seen
A tortoiseshell butterfly festing on buddleja nectar
Swinton Park, a private estate owned by the Cunliffe-Lister family since the 1880s, and the ancestral seat of the Earl of Swinton.
Bronte Country Landscapes 
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