Walking We Will Go Yorkshire

Originally published in Medical Observer

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Excerpt

THE YORKSHIRE DALES was as restful and refreshing as the summer rains that announced our arrival at the imposing stone mansion in Malhamdale. There was no response from a knock at the heavy front door on the pillared portico at Newfield Hall. We entered anyway, down a long corridor into a 19th century baronial hall. The fireplace was ashen cold and the portraits of unsmiling aristocrats peered down from their elevated positions above a sweeping staircase.

There was no check-in, no concierge, no champagne on arrival

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