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November 2026 in Thirsk: two bonfire nights, Remembrance weekend at the Ritz and Rural Arts, the artisan market on the square, a Christmas cookery night in the Town Hall, and the lights on the 27th.
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Apple Week at Ampleforth, trick or treat on the Moors Railway, pumpkins in Castle Howard and re-enactors at Fountains: October half term within an hour of Thirsk.
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Rowardennan in Sowerby, where Alf Wight wrote the James Herriot books, has a blue plaque: the house, the man, Thirsk's other twenty plaques and the walk out.
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Five firework displays within half an hour of Thirsk this year: Monk Park Farm and Northallerton on Thursday 5 November, Burtree, Bedale and Masham on Saturday 7 November.
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Half term runs 26 to 30 October and Halloween is the Saturday after: Rural Arts workshops, Shaun the Sheep at the Ritz, pumpkins and a Halloween trail.
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The National Trust lights the abbey and the water garden on eight October evenings, thirty-five minutes from Thirsk. We shut at four; the evening is theirs.
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The original twenty blue plaques, the new James Herriot plaque in Sowerby, and six stories worth stopping for on a walk from Thirsk Market Place.
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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.