Day 12: Osmotherley to Clay Bank Top, 14 miles (Lisa’s Version)

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Hallelujah, the Hills! Today we were back into the rolling hillside and have been somewhat relieved to have some harder climbs and forested areas after long, flat days of road walking. It was another foggy day as we started our walk with Jen, Gary, Sarah, and Jeff, but the skies quickly cleared. We stayed in Urra, a village close to Clay Bank Top on the trail. There isn’t a town or even a building close to Clay Bank Top, it is just a clay bank top, so you have to go North to Great Broughton or South to Urra. Wendy, our hostess, gave us a lift into G.B. for dinner with our friends. We all had 2 courses for £6.95 at the Jet Miner’s Inn with sticky toffee pudding for dessert before we caught a cab back to Urra. Wendy and Gerry’s little B&B is called the Maltkiln House. Our room is a converted pigsty that they’ve turned into a nice yellow suite with twin beds. They have the best looking rooster that I have ever seen and several chicks who circle around the mother hens. Gerry was telling us what a nice family they are and how they all play in the dust together over in the field behind the house. He walked us up the footpath in the morning so that we could find our way back to the C-C path from their backyard instead of backtracking.