Today we enjoyed a circular walk round Holme Valley. 

 The buntings are left over from the recent Tour de France. 

We walked through the tiny village of Thong.  (This name is believed to be associated with Viking invaders who took control of a large part of Northern England. The Viking word ‘thong’ which meant a strip of land) 

A local showed us the library! 

On the outskirts of Holmfirth, I saw a house resembling the one I used to visit to stay with a friend back in the 60s.  Crossing the Pennines for the weekend seemed so exotic in those days.