Have your say! Natural England is considering whether to designate the Wolds an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).

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).

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.