Have your say! Natural England is considering whether to designate the Wolds an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).
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The west facing Wold escarpment from North Cave to Market Weighton reveals one of the underlying rock types of the Wolds – a hard band of impermeable Oxford clay forming a marked step in the scarp slope.
This issue of the newsletter kicks off with a piece about horse racing. It's important in Yorkshire as there are more racecourses here than any other UK county (Beverley, Catterick, Doncaster, Pontefract, Redcar, Ripon, Thirsk, Wetherby, York (9 of the 59 official UK racecourses).
Since lockdown was first announced we have been harbouring a vain hope that it might be lifted in time to resume with some of the activities on the 2020 programme, possibly June, then possibly July
The view from High Gardam looking north captures the sweep of the Wolds from the field in the foreground, then left, the High Wolds beyond the Dalton Estate woodland, curving across the horizon towards Flamborough off to the right.
Celebrate winter on the Yorkshire Wolds with stories of autumn harvests, community achievements, historic churches, farming life, landscape planning and forthcoming walks and events.
Proposals for a new Pocklington museum to house the amazing local archaeological finds is our main feature, with other museum developments.
Natural England has recently given notice that it proposes to make an Order designating approximately 463 square kilometres of land in the East Riding and in North Yorkshire as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in the Yorkshire Wolds. Maps of the proposed area can be inspected at:
Natural England York office, Foss House, Kings Pool, 1-2 Peasholme Green, York, YO1 7PX
East Riding Council Customer Service Centre, Champney Treasure House, Champney Road, Beverley, HU17 8HE
North Yorkshire Council office, Ryedale House, Old Malton Road, Malton, North Yorkshire, YO17 7HH
And at the libraries in Filey, Flamborough, Malton and Market Weighton.
They are also available to download at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/yorkshire-wolds-area-of-outstanding-natural-beauty-proposed-designation
