Thirty eight miles from Wetherby to the Yorkshire Farming Museum at Murton and back. I took a more interesting route to York for the first time via Thorpe Arch, Healaugh, Askham Richard and Askham Bryan. It was also my first outing on a road bike since March, my Dave Yates Randonneur. It turned out to be a much quieter road with lots of cyclists out and about. The Museum of Farming turned out to be a gem with a BOGOF - the entry fee also covers admission to the last remaining stretch of the Derwent Valley Railway. The museum is interesting and has a wide but not comprehensive range of agricultural implements including an eye-watering display of animal castration tools and lesser known tractors. The ride back was uneventful but monitored by the glider pilots overhead near Rufforth on the oft used B1224.
A Ferguson tractor
A Ransomes caterpillar tractor last used in a hospital garden which grew the vegetables for the hospital kitchens. I wonder what happened to the gardens.
Weldrake Station relocated to Murton on the Derwent Valley Light Railway