Anyone who attended the Picnic in the Park in early August may have wondered what the fenced off area was for. It looked like it was protecting a bunch of grass in a field of grass. But deep down things were stirring. This was an […]

  Those taking a stroll down Abbe’s Walk  may have been mystified by the recent appearance of a stone monolith. The new stone is the first phase in a project to mark the original position of the Plague Well that greeted visitors entering the village […]

And there we have it. The message clearly said a bunch of volunteers were going to rub up and down a 20 foot wooden pole. Burghwallis was about to replace the historic May pole dancing festival with a new outdoors pole dancing club – presumably […]