Hovingham Market – December

There are TWO dates for the most excellent Hovingham Market this December.

If you’d like to go along and visit the multi award winning market, chock-a-block with great gift ideas and tasty treats for Christmas, make sure you go through to Hovingham on Saturday 3rd and 17th December – 10.30am to 2.30pm

More details about Hovingham market can be found on the market’s website at

Norton and Malton Heritage Open Day

Saturday 26th November 10am-3pm, Church House, St Peter’s, Norton

Displays include MaltonMuseum, buildings expert Nigel Copsey, the Dickens Society, the Castle Garden Project, Leavening School Village Museum Project, the LEADER CWWW Rural Heritage Project and more…

Exhibition of artefacts and memorabilia exploring our brewing history.

Leaf through old photographs. Identify the mystery objects.

Be entertained by the Word Weavers of Wass with stories from the past.

PLUS Bring your own local artefacts, memorabilia and photographs to be identified by a team of experts.

All Saints Church Open Morning 10 Dec

10th December, 10 – 11.30. a.m. All Saints Church Slingsby. Open morning with coffee and mince pies. All members of congregation and village residents are invited to attend.  All members of the PCC to attend who are able please.

The purpose of the meeting is to ‘discuss some proposed minor changes and improvements inside the church, and outside in the churchyard. The outside changes include the establishment of an additional memorial ashes area, as the present dedicated area is now full, and the continuing problem of the collapsed boundary wall. The PCC would like to hear your views.

Open Morning Slingsby School 7 Dec

Wednesday 7th December. Slingsby school will be hosting an open morning for parents, relatives, friends to come and see the children at work. To complete the morning we at the school are inviting all visitors to come and share finger buffet lunch held in the Reading Rooms that adjoin the school. We would love to welcome neighbours, and residents of the village to join us. In order to have an idea of numbers we would like anyone who is interested to collect a ticket from school free of charge. Tickets will be available in school from the 18th November.

For more on forthcoming events, see the school page.