アラートンバイウォーターでの周辺の簡単なハイキングとウォーキング

Very muddy on sections and lots of bird twitchers out, oblivious that other people are using the trails as well 🥴

Lovely walk birds nesting at moment toilets and cafe sturdy paths disability scooter welcome small cafe and wild water swimming

The memorial, a sculpture in the shape of a mining cage, was designed by local artist and former miner Harry Malkin. During the official dedication ceremony the names of all those killed at the pit were read out. The £30,000 needed to build the memorial was gathered through fundraising efforts. The sculpture shows four different mining-related themes on the sides of a cage that has just emerged at the surface from an imaginary shaft.

Lovely staff in the cafe, nice hot cuppa with a view

Pushchair friendly purple route

The River Aire is 71 miles (114 km) long and rises at Aire Head near Malham, and it joins the River Ouse at Airmyn. This is the footbridge that crosses from Mickletown Methley to the Causeway leading to St. Aidans Nature Reserve. It has good views down over the sedate moving River Aire, which is travelling through some beautiful woodland at this point.

Harry Malkin He was a mechanical fitter at Fryston Colliery, 1965–85; an archaeological illustrator on the Pontefract Castle dig, 1986–8; became a freelance artist in 1988; and from 1998 combined this with being exhibition organiser for Yorkshire Art Circus, where he also taught.

Something that doesn't belong. Near the sign by the pedestrian gate...