The Cloisters, Kirkby Stephen

The length of a journey can sometimes feel very different to its actual distance. For example, it's only about 30 miles to Kirkby Stephen from Kirkby Lonsdale but, whichever way you go, it feels a lot further. Not that's in not a lovely drive; up the Lune valley to Sedbergh and then through the Dales to Kirkby Stephen.

We were up there today to take Abi to a sleepover at a friend's house. The plan had been to drop her off and then have a stroll around the town, find somewhere for a drink and maybe a bite to eat. In the end, though, there wasn't that much to see and the on-off drizzly rain meant that we retired to a pub a little more promptly than anticipated,

In fact, the only noteworthy feature I noticed during our admittedly far from exhaustive tour of the town was 'the cloisters', pictured here. Built in 1810, it says in the stonework, and funded by a John Waller Esq, who was a purser in the navy, which I'm inferring was a pretty well paid job. 

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