Arum Spring

Having spent several days in the company of very elderly parents, we were sent out to get some exercise and fresh air at what used to be pleasure gardens established in the eighteenth century and which reached their heyday in the Victorian era, known as the Hackfall. The woods fell into disrepair and were recently restored using Lottery funding. It is a large area of coniferous and deciduous trees near the village of Grewelthorpe in North Yorkshire, on the banks of the river Ure, which flows down Wensleydale. This spring joins a stream which is a tributary of the main river. There are miles of footpath which link a number of follies, one of which, The Ruin, is now a holiday cottage for two.