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Scroll down the page and you will find the previous 2 issues, a video, photographs,
local weather and a wealth of information about Leyburn and Wensleydale.
Welcome to Leyburn
Market Town & gateway
to the North Yorkshire Dales
Leyburn is a small market town
sitting high above the river Ure
and 650ft above sea level in
Wensleydale, one of the beautiful
North Yorkshire Dales and close to
the eastern edge of the
Yorkshire Dales National Park.
The town has a population of 2,500,
is the main service centre for the villages
of the mid-Wensleydale area
and offers a superb range
of specialist local shops
including Campbells supermarket,
a handmade chocolate shop
and a specialist walking shop.
Several pubs and cafe's
with outside dining areas
are situated around the wide open
Market Square where there is
an outdoor market
every Friday all year round.
Leyburn Livestock Auction Mart
operates on Friday and Wednesday.
Leyburn is home to Tennants Auctioneers,
the largest auction house in Europe
which holds more than 80 sales each year
and attracts buyers and sellers
from around the world.
Thornborough Hall,
includes the Town Council office,
library, business offices and is an excellent venue
for weddings and meetings in the Oak Room.
See photos on the slide show
For further information contact the Council.
https://leyburntowncouncil.gov.uk/
Leyburn Arts & Community Centre
which has a regular programme of events
and film screenings.
Leyburn has four Christian places of worship;
the Evangelical church, Catholic church
of St Peter and St Paul, Methodist church
and the Anglican church of St Matthew.
Details of Services
are included in the magazine.
Although a small town, Leyburn
has its own railway station on the
re-opened Wensleydale Railway
which offers tourist rides along the
valley from Leeming Bar to Redmire,
mostly on diesel multiple units
but occasionally on a steam train.
Leyburn has a great programme of events
including:
Wensleydale Tournament of Song in March,
and Wensleydale Agricultural Show in July.
View our video of Wensleydale
from Leyburn Shawl.
(Please note, there is no sound on the video)
and our gallery of local photographs
The only local magazine
with a guaranteed delivery
come rain or shine for 50 yrs!
The magazine was first printed,
as a community publication, in 1973
on a Gestetner duplicator and thanks
to the continued support of advertisers
and a dedicated team of volunteers,
has been an important means of
communication for residents
and businesses for HALF A CENTURY!
In March 2018 Leyburn Life was completely
updated to a quality full colour magazine
throughout and the carbon footprint
reduced by using environmentally friendly
digital and litho print presses which means
no chemicals, no water, no contaminating
and all the paper used is supplied from
sustainable sources.
IT CAN BE RECYCLED.
This website was created in 2018
and attracts readers not only from the
UK but worldwide, many of whom contact
the Editor with articles for the magazine,
for information on Leyburn and
Wensleydale as a holiday destination,
and about ancestors who lived in the area,
The complete magazine is included here
and available to download.
DEADLINE FOR EVERYTHING IS
15th OF THE MONTH PRIOR TO
MONTH OF PUBLICATION
Directions to Leyburn
FREE PARKING IN THE MARKET PLACE,
GROVE AND COMMERCIAL SQUARES.
Yellow donation boxes in Market Place
and Grove Square.
From the A1 South bound
Leave the A1M at Scotch Corner.
Take the A6108 to Richmond.
Continue through Richmond n the A6108
and follow the signs for Leyburn.
From the A1 North bound
Leave the A1 at Leeming Bar
and follow the signs to Bedale
and Leyburn on the A684.
From Hawes and Aysgarth
Follow the A684 to Leyburn.
Adjacent to the first fields leading to the Shawl is a Playing Field
which is enjoyed by many children and their families
and can be seen on the slide show and at the end of the video.
Close to the town centre is Leyburn Shawl with its panoramic views
across Wensleydale, an ideal location for wedding photographs following
your wedding in Thornborough Hall, and a popular footpath leading out of town
on to Redmire and Bolton Castle.
Bolton Castle's most famous moment in history came in 1568,
when Mary, Queen of Scots, was imprisoned here following her escape
from Scotland. The Castle and grounds are open to visitors.
Middleham Castle is a ruined castle in Middleham in Wensleydale.
It was built by Robert Fitzrandolph, 3rd Lord of Middleham and Spennithorne, commencing in 1190. The castle was the childhood home of King Richard III,
although he spent very little of his reign there.
Jervaulx Abbey initially a Savigniac foundation out of Normandy,
the abbey was later taken over by the Cistercian order from Burgundy
and responsibility for it was taken by Byland Abbey.
Founded in 1145 at Fors near Aysgarth, it was moved ten years later
to a site a few miles away on the banks of the River Ure.
Hardraw Force the highest single waterfall in the UK.
Leyburn Life magazine is now the only monthly magazine delivered to all residents
and businesses in Leyburn and Bellerby and sold in newsagents.
A 1/4 page advert in the printed Leyburn Life magazine
and on this website costs less than £10.00 a week
and is read by people all over the world!
For further information contact the Editor via the form below.
If you are tracing ancestors, planning a holiday or short break
in Leyburn/Wensleydale we would love to hear from you.
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