Egton Manor is listed as a Grade II Building with Historic England. Whilst being a family home, is also used as a country retreat with exclusive hire weddings and events. The Manor provides secluded and romantic settings for intimate weddings and wedding celebrations.

These buildings and structures have a Grade II Listing with Historic England. They date to the 18th and 19th centuries and are constructed with herringbone-tooled sandstone. The shed roof consists of pantiles. It is thought that the walled garden survives from an earler dwelling occupied by the Elwes family until 1869.

The Estate llamas can be seen from Barnard's Road, near to the Estate entrance. Llamas are domesticated South American camels. In the Andes, in South America, llamas are often used for meat and as pack animals, and have been since the pre-Columbian era. A llama's wool is soft. They are social animals and prefer to live within a herd. Llamas grow to an average height of 5'9". They often live for 15 to 25 years but have been known to attain 30 years. They are ruminants, i.e. they digest food in the same way as sheep and cattle, processing the high cellulose grasses by regurgitation and re-chewing.

Barnard's Road is about 1 mile long, passing through the Egton manor Estate. It is a private road with a gravelled surface. In the summer the wayside and hedgerow are alive with wild flowers, providing a mix of whites, yellows and greens. The image was taken near the eastern riverbank of a large north facing meander in the River Esk, approaching a sewage works.

Beckside Farm is located near to the eastern end of Barnard's Road. It has a Grade II Listing with Historic England. The farm complex dates to the early 19th century. The main building is whitewashed over rubble sandstone and has a slate roof. The outbuildings have red pantile roofing.

Toll Cottage is just east of Beckside Farm, almost on the north bank of the River Esk. On the west facing gable wall of Toll Cottage is a plaque with details of the toll charges in 1948. Toll's are no longer extracted, of course. Tolls were payable for horses, cars, motor cycles, lorries buses, tractors, and hearses.

The Toll Plaque dates to 1948. It is interesting to see that the toll traffic included lorries and buses!

Near the eastern end of the Toll Road it veers north east and passes beneath a railway bridge. Ahead, to the north is Grosmont Manor, with a coniferous wood as a backdrop. To the east are the farming fields of The Alders.

At the junction of Barnard's Road with the main road from Egton Village, a large sessile oak tree provides summer shade from the sun. Grosmont is only a few hundred yards along the road to the south east.

Coast to Coast Trail Guide

"Hiking the Coast to Coast" is a digitally enhanced eBook available from Apple Books for all people who have either a Mac, an iPhone or an iPad, and is designed to accompany you on your walk of the Coast to Coast path. The trail guide contains Ordnance Survey maps and other advanced mapping features, step by step directions, hundreds of colour photographs, details of the route, its conditions in different weather and research snippets relating to places of interest along the way.