The day after we reached Hull, feeling happy and sad to have finished, we left our hotel in Hessle and walked to the middle of the Humber Bridge, carrying the stones we had gathered from the tributaries along the way, and the water that we collected from our starting point in Mytholmroyd. The stones were all from the early part of the journey when we could still climb down to the water, and were collected from the Salterhebble, Red Brook, Black Brook, Ryeburne, Owler Beck, an

Setting off from Brough, Friday 18th March 2022. Our final day. We started in a car park on the riverbank. Another fine day with blue skies. Brough is the location of one of British Aerospace (BAe) UK sites and as we set out on the river path, we passed their white factory buildings. Annie remembered her friends who used to come here to campaign against the arms trade. One time they went into the factory and found a poster on a staff notice board with their photos and the leg

Setting off from Saltmarshe, Thursday 17th March 2022 A bright sunny day, blue cloudless sky. We made our way back to Laxton on the 9 o’clock train, walked down through the fields to the hamlet of Saltmarshe to continue our walk. It was hard walking on the flood defence so when we could we dropped down onto small roads running parallel. At the end of one stretch we rushed eagerly back onto the dyke to see the point where the already broad Ouse would be joined by the Trent to

Setting off from Boothferry, Wednesday 16th March 2022 It was great to be back at Boothferry bridge gazing into the silvery grey mist hanging over the River Ouse on what we knew would be a wet day. We thought that a train line along the river would make this leg easy. But there is only one train every two hours and the area is sparsely populated with no other public transport and no-one walking. We saw two people and a boat all day. In fact we saw more deer than people, we st

After the dark days of winter, we are looking forward to #walkingtohull again next week. It has been a walk of three parts, first the hills, then the plains and now we will complete the walk, following the estuary from Boothferry, the river crossing at Goole, to Hull - within sight of the sea. We will be living in luxury for our last four days with a train line, running almost parallel with the river, giving us easy access to the start and end points each day from our hotel i