Abbey, castle and a wild dale - chasing the sun

BBC weather promised nothing but sun until late afternoon today so we set off north, only to run into a large black cloud and rain. However, seeing blue sky further to the north we persevered and it paid off.
First stop was at the ruins of Jervaulx Abbey, a Cistercian monastery founded in 1156, as Petronela had never visited. Then on to Middleham castle, where Richard III spent his childhood, reputedly his favourite home. From there along one of the wildest of the Yorkshire Dales, Coverdale, a 15 mile mostly single track road skirting to the north of one of Yorkshires most notable 'mountains', Great Whernside, which was still covered in snow. Apart from being an area of the wildest Yorkshire beauty I like so much, Coverdale is home to a great cheese and where the first formally recorded game of cricket took place.
Lots of photos were taken but while Petronela was shooting Middleham castle I was taken by cottage rooves and ginnels. I didn't know which to blip but decided on the rooves and put a ginnel in extras. The other extra is just to show that Yorkshire can, occasionally, have a Mediterranean blue sky, though the temperature was quite a few degrees lower. The beautiful tree is at Jervaulx Abbey.