Have your say! Natural England is considering whether to designate the Wolds an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).
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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.
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.
There is a Chinese proverb: ‘If you have only two pennies in the world – with one buy bread, with the other buy a lily’.
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
