Wild Flower Walk - A Keld Countryside & Heritage Event in association with Yoredale Natural History Society

 

The Wild Flower Walk takes place this year on Saturday 28th June.

Please meet at the Keld Countryside & Heritage Centre at 9.45 a.m.

Booking not essential.  Full details at www.tkrc.org.uk
 

The walk is led by Len Shepherd and his knowledgeable volunteers form the Yoredale Natural History Society.  Last year over 100 different species of wild flowers were identified on the walk between Keld and Muker. 

 

 

 

The walk passes through the famous Muker hay meadows which, last year, where granted Coronation status by Prince Charles. 

The Standing Stone

The long awaited Standing Stone in position in the Well Being Garden. 
A stone carver will now be commissioned to inscribe the stone.

The stone being winched in from the path below the garden.

The stone stands over 6 feet above ground level.
Already the stone is becoming a focal point of garden and is particularly striking when viewed from the path that leads from Keld Woods.

Putting the flags out for Tour de France

Residents of Keld pull together to decorate the village in readiness for the hundreds of visitors we expect to come through Keld over the Tour de France weekend.

If you can't do it with aid of a four wheel drive we're not interested.

Health & Safely?  Never heard of it!!



The Sun, Jeremy Clarkson and Keld

 

 

 

 

22 million householders throughout the country have received, this week, a free Sun newspaper supplement called This is Our England.  After a quick glance at the Queen and Mick Jagger my copy was quickly discarded. It is nothing short of a minor miracle that my copy survived as it could so easily have been used to:-

 a) light the fire - perhaps not in June

 b) stuff a pair of bog-ridden, wet, sweaty walking boots belonging to one of my B&B guests - much more likely

 c) been recycled - lucky escape, it was waste collection this week

 

Imagine my surprise when I received an email alerting me to the content on page 17! Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear fame writes, in the opening paragraph of his column, that Keld (yes, our Keld) is about the most beautiful place on earth. What a gift, what impeccable taste, what recognition! 

 

Thank you, Jeremy Clarkson.  Come back soon and write some more.



 

 



Meadows & Moorland Farm Walk

 

Sunday 8th June

 

Meadows & Moorland Guided Farm Walk

 

 

 

This is the third year that local Upper Swaledale hill farmer, Chris Calvert, has led a walk through his meadows, pastures and moorland. 

 

Meet at the Keld Countryside & Heritage Centre at 10.45 a.m.

 

The walk takes approximately 2 1/2 hours and participants have the opportunity to see a variety of wild flowers and birds.  Chris will happily answer your questions about barns & walls, his sheep and the many aspects of living  and working on a remote hill farm.



Room with a View

 

The view from the window at the back of the Visitor Centre is a picture on a beautiful Good Friday afternoon ...... 

 

and makes an ideal viewing point to watch Mr Rukin's ewes and lambs.

 

The patchwork of fields, dotted with traditional dales barns and divided by a zigzag of stone walls is marred only slightly by the electricity cables.  Will they ever be buried underground?  The steepness of the terrain and the ground rock would make it a difficult process.  On reflection, a few overhead cables is decidedly more preferable than life without electricity!

 

Keld Countryside & Heritage Centre Events 2014

Events Programme for 2014

The new Events Programme for 2014 highlighting all events and activities taking place in Keld can be picked up in the centre.  It can also be found in tourist information centres in Reeth and Hawes as well as most pubs, cafes and tourist centres in the dale.

Full details of all activities can be found at our website www.tkrc.org.uk

In brief:

Friday 18th April - Good Friday Walk

Saturday 10th May - Birds of Upper Swaledale Guided Walk

Sunday 8th June - Meadows & Moorland Guided Farm Walk

Saturday 28th June - Wildflower Walk

Sunday 13th June - Kisdon Classic Circular Guided Walk

Sunday 27th July - Keld Remembered - Talk by Joan Moody of her childhood in Keld

Saturday 23rd August - Storytelling Walk with Rhoda 

Saturday 13th September - The Lead Mines of Keld - Talk by Tony & Margaret Brennan

Tour de France Weekend 4th - 6th July

The centre will be staffed and there will be craft based demonstration over the weekend.