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The National Trust lights the abbey and the water garden on four October weekends, thirty-five minutes from Thirsk. We shut at four; the evening is theirs.
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Twenty blue plaques, an hour and a half, and free from start to finish. The six stories worth stopping for, from the founder of Lord's to a nurse who left for Uruguay.
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Thirsk is Darrowby. An hour-by-hour day around Alf Wight's town, from the real Skeldale House to the church where he married, planned from our door.
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Rosa's 2023 guide to a Thirsk holiday - Sutton Bank, the World of James Herriot, the racecourse, the markets and the independent shops.