Day 2: Middlesbrough to Kirklevington

Our first walking day starts with just a half-hour walk from Marton Methodist Church to the Roman Catholic Cathedral for 10.00 a.m. Mass. After Mass, we walk along pavements (mostly by a main ring road as the roads through the nearby housing estate are unsuitable). Lunch will be in Stainton village at the Stainton Inn. Sandwiches can be eaten in the churchyard nearby, where we have a prayer stop after lunch. After prayers we walk through the village to Thornton where we leave the road to walk through fields. Then, after 800 mtrs of road walking, we start what will mainly be a route along paths and tracks passing through the villages of Hilton (where we have a prayer stop) and then Middleton-on-Leven. After Middleton the path is through woods, above the River Leven and, in some places, can be narrow, steep in descent, uneven and muddy. A walking pole may be useful! After this we have a longish but relatively quiet road to the outskirts of Kirklevington, where a bridleway and village road take us to our overnight stop.

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