Slow Ways Routes – Sanepw one, Thosan one
It was a fine morning and after a good night’s rest I was on the trail again. My Airbnb was just a few metres away from the Slow Way.
I walked out of the town and followed a footpath which took, beside fields and pastures.
There were quite a lot of corn fields and my first thought was I wonder when these will be harvested.
I turned a corner and got my answer.
As I walked on I was passed several times by the trailers carrying the harvested corn. I continued along a track which took me to the River Torne. I found it difficult to distinguish between rivers, canals and drains around these parts.
I walked beside the river for a while which was great.
I turned left and joined the road into the little village of Sandtoft which was the end of this first Slow Way. It was a long straight road and was backwards and forwards onto the verge to avoid fast moving traffic.
I stopped outside the pub for a rest which of course was not open. There really wasn’t much else in this village so continued on. The rest of today was all road walking.
I did notice two men clearing a hedge by hand across the ditch and stopped for a chat. We ended up talking about the way farming had changed since I grew up on the farm until I was 11. I can just about remember Dad having a horse as well as the tractor. One of the farmers said he had studied Agriculture at Newcastle and said how they had visited someone who still used horses. The consensus was it would not be cost effective. The only other highlight was the sign welcoming me to Yorkshire. It did give a feeling of accomplishment. More and more roads followed though – there was no change in my surroundings.
As I entered the town of Thorne, my destination for today I crossed the canal.
It was a long walk through the town to the end of the route.
I had a drink in the pub but they didn’t serve food so on my way to my Airbnb I called at a cafe and had a salad. The Airbnb was good. I just stayed in my room for the evening as I had had enough of walking today. After posting the route reviews I did wander whether it would have been more interesting to have taken a slightly longer route which would have had more canal walking.