Day 5 Captain Cook monument to Skinningrove

Today we started at the car park by the Captain Cook monument and walked up towards Roseberry Topping - a famous hill that we had seen for days and everyday it was gradually getting closer; however today we couldn't see anything due to the mist!  so unfortunately we couldn't see any views at all, and it rained most of the morning.
Here's a picture of Roseberry topping taken yesterday!

Roseberry Topping, as seen yesterday.

- And today - Which way?

Walter and Stuey were driver and co-pilot today, and they had the right idea - went in search of pies -  they bought a number of different ones - I don't think even Stuey couldn't keep up with Walt's number of pies eaten!

Today was a long walk; Tim had extended yesterday's a little and also extending today's to make tomorrow's 17.5 mile walk a little less; so today ended up as a 16 mile walk.  It should have been a little less but there were some coastal works going on and we had to divert a bit.

We had elevenses hiding from the rain and wind under trees, and plodded onwards until we got towards the coast.  We first saw the coast at Skelton, and then had to walk the next couple of miles to Saltburn-by-the-Sea, amazingly we walked through a chine like area and found this wonderful viaduct and running river.

 We met up with Walt and Stuey at the band stand in Saltburn-by-Sea - they had only walked about 4 miles and we had walked 12 ??  We had lunch there and then headed down to the sea and started the coast path walk south to Skinningrove.

The bank stand.

  The rain had stopped by then, but there was still a keen north easterly wind - but I'm sitting in glorious sun now writing this!!

Skinningrove was a strange place, it was dominated by the big iron works, and most of the village was houses for the workers.  Iron smelting was introduced and the railway built in about 1865; a jetty was built to carry so ships could carry the cargo.  Mining continued until 1958 and the iron and steel works finally closed in 1970.

Tonight we are having fish and chips as unfortunately it's Stuey's last night, he is heading home tomorrow.