I’ve walked 10,000 miles through British countryside – here’s my favourite quaint English village everyone should visit

A MAN who was walked implicit 10,000 miles done National Parks and walking routes successful the UK has revealed 1 beauteous Yorkshire colony holidaymakers should visit.

Reeth is simply a stunning aged mining colony with immoderate of the champion panoramic views successful the state and respective large pubs.

John Millen, 58, is simply a usher for Walkers' Britain - a institution that's been organising hiking expeditions successful the UK and Europe since the 1970s, and he's walked much than 10,000 miles passim the Great British Countryside.

The nonrecreational hiker has walked the Coast to Coast Path - a 193-mile walking way from St Bees successful the Lake District to Robin Hood's Bay successful North Yorkshire - much than 20 times.

Speaking exclusively to Sun Travel astir the champion villages he's seen connected his hikes, John said: "Villages successful the Yorkshire Dales are really, truly pretty.

"Places similar Reeth and Cowden successful Upper Swaledale are precise beauteous and precise remote."

Just 11 miles separates the 2 Yorkshire villages that are some portion of the Coast to Coast Path.

Reeth is known for its past of pb mining, with the tiny colony erstwhile producing 10 per cent of the country's lead, but nowadays the colony is location to conscionable 700 residents.

John said: "Reeth is an aged pb mining colony with a large greenish that's lined with respective pubs.

"As you locomotion done the village, you tin astir ideate the pb miners spending their wages successful 1 of the pubs and starting brawls.

"Despite the mining history, it's inactive very, very, charismatic with chromatic cottages and countryside views.

"You've got a mates of pubs to take from similar The Black Bull, and the Buck.

"They're rather nice pubs connected the green, each with a consciousness of past and bully ales connected draft".

Dating backmost to the 17th century, The Black Bull is Reeth's oldest surviving Inn.

Visitors to the old-school boozer tin expect to find roaring fires and different play features.

Not lone tin holidaymakers besides get their capable of section bitter, they tin publication to enactment astatine the historic pub from £50 per nighttime per room.

The Buck is different 1 of John's pub recommendations successful Reeth.

Located astatine the apical of the village, the Buck has rooms from £80 per night.

And it's not conscionable John who has praised Reeth successful caller years, with section writer Ella Pontefract describing the Yorkshire colony arsenic "a small state successful itself" due to the fact that it's surrounded by rolling fields and moorland.

Thanks to its presumption connected a plateau supra the River Swale the colony has panoramic views of the Yorkshire hills and moors.

Visitors who privation to larn much astir the past of the colony should sojourn Swaledale Museum.

And those with a saccharine bony tin caput for a spot of day beverage astatine Ivy Cottage - a three-star B&B that overlooks the colony green.

Reeth is an hour's thrust from Middlesbrough, and it's an 80-minute thrust from York.

The English colony is 63 miles from Robin's Hood Bay, which marks the extremity of the Coast to Coast Path.

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