Journal · Topic
6 posts
Plan a day
Herriot Hospice's first Moonlight Glow Walk sets off from Thirsk Racecourse on Saturday 3 October: a 5k after dark through the centre of town and back, glow sticks encouraged.
Plan a day
A quiet woodland path twelve minutes from Thirsk market square, where a stream crosses under you again and again. Free, short, and most walkers turn back before it.
Plan a day
The road up Sutton Bank shuts for maintenance from 13 September to 4 October. What that actually means, and three real alternatives from our own door.
Plan a day
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.
Plan a day
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.
Plan a day
Rosa's 2023 guide to a Thirsk holiday - Sutton Bank, the World of James Herriot, the racecourse, the markets and the independent shops.