BARNARD CASTLE: THE RETURN

Despite the lack of sleep, Sheila has put in an amazing effort and arrived at Barnard Castle at around 11.15 am after re-crossing Yad Moss. She has now completed 586 miles and has 306 to go.
From Barnard Castle, Sheila more or less re-traces her steps, slipping through the gap between the North Yorkshire Moors and the Yorkshire Dales via Scotch Corner and Northallerton. The next control point is at Thirsk.
Sheila will happily avoid the motorway service station Scotch Corner which may be one of the most dismal places in England - although our view may be a little biased by bad experiences whilst “hitch-hiking” in the early 1980s when we always seemed to get stuck there for hours on end and it was always raining.
“Hitch-hiking” has virtually died out now but, for those too young to remember, it used to be an economical form of transport whereby people - mainly impoverished students - moved from one place to another by accepting lifts from complete strangers in the hope that none of them would turn out to be sexual predators or serial killers. (We were once picked by the police whilst stuck on Bodmin Moor – but that, perhaps, is a story for another day…).
According to Wikipedia (so it must be true), Scotch Corner is most famous for featuring in the lyrics to Jethro Tull’s “Too Old To Rock and Roll, Too Young To Die”:
"So the old Rocker gets out his bike
to make a ton before he takes his leave.
Up on the A1 by Scotch Corner
just like it used to be".
None of us has probably heard this for donkey’s years. So here it is.