Walking The Pennine Way When I Was Eleven - Stage 10: (Hawes to Tan Hill)
Start: Hawes Finish: Tan Hill Inn Distance: 17 miles Total Distance Walked: 120 miles At this point I stopped writing up my diary while I was doing the walk so my recollections are purely from my memories. We left Hawes and crossed fields for a mile until we reached the village of Hardraw. There we took a short diversion off the Pennine Way to visit Hardraw Force, the highest waterfall in England at a height of 96 feet. To reach it we had to go through the Green Dragon Inn, where we paid a small entrance fee, and walked along a path to the Force. This was one of those rare spots on the route where other people were around and it was quite busy along the path. The waterfall itself was quite impressive in altitude, although not so much in volume. We had been very lucky with the weather in the week or so we had been walking. There had been some low cloud on Black Hill and it had been very windy at times but I can't recall having any ra...