Starting in Nenthead, the highest village in England, (https://www.picturesofengland.com/England/Cumbria/Nenthead) I went over Overwater – a road that goes up and over the watershed between the Wear and Tees valleys. This road is NOT to be travelled at night or in the winter unless you are local. I passed a range of happy cyclists going down and exhausted ones going up.

I have taken a few pictures but it is difficult to get the most scenic bits from a car with a phone. Try this for more information – https://englandsnortheast.co.uk/teesdale/

It is noticeable that, as you go south, the grass gets greener and there are more trees. The ideologues who reckon that the uplands should be either ‘rewilded’ or given over to arable farming may not have really looked at the amount of soil available. Perhaps the first step to improving the ecology would be convincing the land owners that grouse are not the be all and end all. Water retention is also a major consideration to diminish flooding downstream.