Away from Ravenstor again by about 10 am and then spent a couple of hours wandering the Peak District –heaps and heaps of walkers, cyclist and motorcyclists and people going to explore caverns, all escaping from the cities of the Midlands .Can see Manchester in the haze from right up on the Dales.
Then down into the valley –stop at Stockbridge at Tescos and saw boat go thru canal lock which was really fascinating and thru to Rochdale where we found streets where Lyndsay’s relatives Holdens and Browns had lived but no actual houses-interesting in that they seemed to live only a few streets away from each other. We had gone to Rochdale information centre for a map to find the streets and then had amazing assistance from 3 women in their history section who went to great lengths to find streets no longer on current maps –real challenge for them which they seemed to really enjoy.
Stayed night at YHA Howarth up on the Yorkshire moors, yet another former stately home, but in very good condition and we had a 4 bedded room to ourselves, wonderful self catering kitchen in basement and drying room that dried whole load of washing overnight.