Sowerby · 2 checked
Boots on. These are the Sowerby walks worth the drive, with lead rules and livestock warnings marked.
Open medieval common land beside Cod Beck, reached from Sowerby's elegant tree-lined Front Street, and the default daily dog walk for Thirsk and Sowerby. Riverside grass paths link into a roughly three-mile circular between the two settlements. The Flatts are still working pasture where cattle and sheep graze, so keep dogs on leads around stock.
Three flat miles round the village and out to the Anglo-Saxon burial mound known as Pudding Pie Hill, an hour and a quarter, on lane, green and field path with a couple of kissing gates and one field that stays soft all winter. Start on Front Street in Sowerby under the lime avenue, where there is free roadside parking, and the Thirsk town bus runs to the village; the mound itself is on private land but the footpath passes close beneath it. Sheep graze the fields south of the village so leads go on there, the Cod Beck runs alongside the Flatts with shallow gravel entries a dog can get in and out of easily, and the lane and green sections keep this walkable through the wettest months when the field paths are not.
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