Friday 10th January 2014
First full day in Yorkshire & another wonderful morning!
Drove to the Filey Road Park & Ride, though we had no intention of 'riding' anywhere... it does, however, offer all day free parking!
Plan was to walk into Scarborough from the south & to return over Oliver's Mount. Amazingly, in the countless dozens of visits I've made to Scarborough since I was a toddler, this was a climb I'd never made!
Castle Cliff & South Bay, Scarborough
Last walked here during the week of my 60th birthday-bash (2012)... in stormy, windy weather with the sea crashing everywhere - the time before (2010), in sweltering heat, when I was one day away from completing 'The Cleveland Way'
Not on today's walking agenda but a wonderful view to start off with!
The 'coastal' bit of today's walk - Scarborough South Bay
Made our way to the famous Spa buildings (just above right centre) via cliff-top paths, the Italian Gardens & the multi-level Promenade Gardens & then climbed to 'The Highlander Hotel' for lunch.... not a 'new' pub!
The closer of the 2 strange, artificial-looking 'peninsulas' is the landscaped remains of the landslip that carried 'The Holbeck Hall Hotel' into the sea in 1993: the further, also a landslip site, has a huge & fascinating map of the constellations engraved in its concrete
And, late in the afternoon, we finally made it to the summit of Oliver's Mount!
Named after Oliver Cromwell who had guns mounted here... though he probably never visited!
Just to the left of this huge war memorial is the road which is also the summit of the road-racing motorcycle circuit - events have been held here since 1946
As can be seen, a little bit of weather was blowing in but we made it back to the van in the dry... albeit in the dark again!
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