Jamie Walton, cellist and leading light of the North York Moors Festival, will be live on Radio 3, In Tune, around 5pm Wednesday 8th February. The NYM chamber music festival (12-25 August) now in its 4th year is establishing itself alongside the older and larger Ryedale Festival (13-29 July)

The NYM Festival programme has been released on its website: http://www.northyorkmoorsfestival.com/festival.html

The Ryedale Fesival programme will be launched on 13 April: http://www.ryedalefestival.co.uk/

 

The first snow fall of 2012 occurred in Slingsby last weekend, so it seems right to have a snowy photograph of one of Slingsby’s most intriguing buildings, beautifully captured by David Thornley, back in December 2009.

Slingsby Castle, as it is known locally, isn’t actually a castle but the ruins of a Jacobean mansion or manor house that was never completed due to the first English Civil War of 1642-1646.

More information on Slingsby Castle can be found here.

Do you have a great photograph you’d like to share with us?

If you’d like to submit an image for the photo of the month slot, you can send it to [email protected]

More details about how to submit photographs can be found HERE

 

This month’s walk from Geoff has just been added to the website, featuring a route starting in Nunnington, following the River Rye  for a time, and taking in some fantastic views along the way. It’s recommended that you walk this route on a clear day.

The route is available to download, in either Microsoft Word document (.doc) and Adobe Reader (.pdf) file formats, for free from Geoff’s Walk page.

 

Signs seen at roadside Wednesday 1 Feb indicate that the anticipated (3 day) road closure between Slingsby (Wath) and Hovingham will now just be in operation on Thursday 2 Feb. Only time will tell…