The Turf Richmond

Our secret guilty pleasure. The Turf in Richmond is one of the best, cheapest, abundant restaurants we've come across. If you can see the table of food we have, well, we bought all this, drinks and deserts later for cheaper than the price of 1 full course at the Rose & Crown in Romaldkirk.
My fave dishes are the chillli, lasagne and the burgers. Superb food at really good prices.

Coopers

After a long shopping session in Richmond, Nicky took us all to her favourite cafe, Coopers. This picture is from the downstairs area. It's very relaxing and do a superb hot chocolate!

Richmond for Cake

Why is there always one in the family that makes a face...that's usually my job in photos! Anyway, while we were waiting for Elionwy in her youth club in Richmond, we went for a meal at The Turf (a superb place to eat and worthy of it's own post sometime), then after we went for a walk and found this little cake shop open. The smell in the place was wonderful, freshly made cakes being made. I can't remember the name of the place though. If I find out I'll add it as a comment, they serve Cafe Vinci hot chocolate though and freshly made cakes for about £1-2

Gilling West

We dropped Elionwy off in Richmond this morning and then stopped off just outside Gilling West, a lovely little village, to photograph this tower. I've seen it a few times from the road and thought it was a folly, but when we walked to it and started inspecting it, it looked more like some sort of watchtower. There was a walled up doorway to stop access, but it looked like it was built with purpose.
If you know what it was for, please leave a comment.
I looked for more info on Google Maps, but found nothing.

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Richmond

We've not been to many of the towns and villages on the outskirts of 'Barney' (as all the locals call it) yet, but we did take the kids to a youth club on Friday in Richmond. About 16 miles away, it's a lovely little place with lot's of churches, a castle and some falls (which I heard but didn't get to see). There was a cricket match going on in the park, and after a stroll, a pint of Guinness and a flapjack we settled down on the grass to wait for the club to end and take the kids home.
The picture is of the setting sun, taken walking along the castle walk.