2 October 2025 York

If you like to get your daily steps in this could be a good place at Cliffords tower York.

Despite the rain the river is not getting any deeper since I arrived.

Had a cycle around the old Rowntree factory is now luxury flats.

Walked into town to look at Dick Turpins grave ?

He was born in Essex if still alive he would have been in Towie.

The two names, “John Palmer” and “Richard Turpin,” appear on his gravestone because he adopted the alias John Palmer to conceal his identity, and the gravestone was placed in the 20th century to honor the well-known highwayman Richard Turpin, acknowledging both his assumed name and his true identity. The grave itself is likely a memorial, as Turpin was buried without a marker in 1739, and the current stone was erected long after his death then cycled out to where he was hanged at Tyburn.

Another walkabout in town in the afternoon.