A winter walk round Welton
This walk started from the pretty village of Welton, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, with the attractive church of St Helen’s dominating the village and with the old mill stream running through the centre.
Phil briefed 38 of us and we set off, in blustery conditions, up Elloughton Hill, from the top of which we could see the sweep of the Humber below us.
We skirted the village of Brantingham and turned in a north-easterly direction on the Yorkshire Wolds Way.
Our coffee stop presented us with extensive views before we continued on the Wolds Way until we turned south, passing Wauldby Manor Farm, and making our way back to Welton for the first part of this figure-of-eight walk.
The friendly Green Dragon pub, allegedly the site of the capture of Dick Turpin in 1739, provided us with a chance to chat before the afternoon walk took us up the beautiful Welton Dale, joining part of the High Hunsley Circuit before making our way back to Welton for the final time.
This was well led by Phil, with Norman’s quiet back-marking ensuring that nobody was left behind.
Places of interest
Welton
Welton was recorded in the Doomsday survey of the 11th Century.
It was then a small village with 53 persons recorded and no church.
The name derives from the old English wella, meaning spring, and tūn, meaning farm by the spring.
The area is the site of several springs, including St Anne’s Well in the grounds of the former Welton House. In 1519, the first recorded instance of an accidental fatal shooting in England was recorded at Welton.
The highwayman Dick Turpin was charged with horse theft from Thomas Creasy at Welton in 1739 and later tried and hanged in York.
Local legend has it thathe was arrested at the Green Dragon in Welton.
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