The lush banks of the River Derwent George Wilkinson discovers a walk full of interest through Roman remains at Malton. Derventio, a Roman fort site, makes a good start. Once there were 500 soldiers garrisoned here, now there are grassy acres, mostly levelled through the ages but still showing some ramparts and ditches.
Information boards provide the history.
A history generated by the strategic importance of our location in the gap between the Wolds and the Howardian Hills. The one-time inhabitants of adjacent Norton made beakers. No distance away is the River Derwent. A stone's throw from a mosaic pike, two lads fished the muddy waters. We enter Lady Spring Wood and move up river.