We usually have a post Christmas break up at the Kings Head in Masham Market Square.
A couple of weeks ago I booked it over the Internet, and just as a precaution I rang them later to make sure they had received the details. (I had had a confirmation e mail, but the confirmation didn't mention that they knew we would be taking Ruby with us, as we have done in previous years.) I know from previous visits that they have certain rooms specifically for accompanied dogs. It was a good job, as they hadn't seen (or read) what I had put on the e mail. Fortunately there was a doggy accompanied room they could book us into!
I was reading the Mail on Sunday last week, and in the travel section was an article written by Carol Drinkwater (the actress who is currently in Calendar Girls, but some years ago - in the seventies and eighties, she was Mrs James Herriot in the much loved BBC Series of "All Creatures Great and Small." The series regularly achieved viewing figure in excess of twenty million viewers.)
Whilst we are in Masham we usually spend some time visiting the local villages/historic homes/castles etc. One year we had even been on a trip on the Wensleydale Railway.
Diesel Multiple Unit approaching Leyburn Station on the Wensleydale Railway
The article Carol Drinkwater had written was a trip back to all the locations where they had filmed at in Wensleydale, and included Middleham, Castle Bolton, Bainbridge, Askrigg, Low Row, and Reeth. She mentioned the lovely little old church of St Oswald at Castle Bolton, the King's Arms in Askrigg (used as The Drovers in the BBC Series), The Punch Bowl at Low Row, where Robert Hardy stayed when they were filming and the water splash near Reeth (in Arkengarthdale) seen in the opening credits.
There it was - an instant itinerary for a day trip whilst we are in Masham! So I am planning on doing a trip based on the locations used in the BBC Series of "All Creatures Great and Small"
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