Event

Music in the Garden on Sunday 4th September 2016

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Music in the Garden at Burwood, Railway Street, Slingsby (YO62 4AN) on Sunday September 4th. 2016 from 2-5p.m.

Garden open,with children’s games, tombola, and lots of cakes, scones and tea to enjoy while listening to the ‘Thornton Dale Ukulele Band’. They will be playing twice – from 2.30 pm. until 3.0 pm. and again at 3.45 pm until 4.15 pm. There will be gazebos to shelter under from either the rain or the sun; with plenty of chairs and tables to relax around. A lovely way to spend a summer afternoon, just before the end of the summer holidays. Everyone welcome – adults £5.00 each and families £10. Proceeds to be divided between Ryedale Stroke group and the Slingsby Maypole fund.

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Slingsby Car Boot sale on Monday 29th August 2016

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Bank Holiday Monday 29th August 2016. A car boot sale will take place on Slingsby’s sports field, from 7 am to 2 pm (weather and ground conditions permitting, of course).

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N.B. For general car boot queries, please ring the Sports Club on 01653 627124 (Friday 8.30 pm – 10.30 pm, Saturday 8.30 pm – 11.30 pm and Sunday 8.30 pm – 10.30 pm).

For information about the car boot sale dates for this year, please go to our sportsfield page

News

Half price family ticket on North York Moors Railway until 30th September 2016

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Our thanks to Geoff (author of Geoff’s Walks – regularly updated) for this:-

“The offer HERE may be of interest to residents as well as summer visitors.  The offer is genuine and does work as I have used it myself.

For £28 instead of the usual £56 you can get a voucher for a day return ticket for two adults and two children (4-15 years inclusive) to travel between Pickering and Whitby (or vice versa) and visit any of the stations in between, including Goathland of ‘Heartbeat’ fame. Print the voucher and hand it in at the ticket office at the station. Simple.

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There is a timetable for the trains on the NYM Railway website.The first train of the day from Pickering is popular and busy so get there early. Voucher is valid until 30th September”

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Afternoon Tea 17th August 2016

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Wednesday 17th August at 3.30 p.m. at The Old Fold, Railway Street, Slingsby. Afternoon tea arranged by our Methodist community at Stephen and Rachel Prest’s house, in place of Soup-a-lunch this month.

All are welcome (especially senior citizens) but it would be helpful if you could say if you are coming, just so the organizers have an idea of numbers. There is no charge for this event. Tel: Stephen & Rachel 628277 or Trudy Carr 628302. Transport can be arranged.

 

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Yorkshire Arboretum database and interactive map

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Yorkshire Arboretum

Yorkshire Arboretum

The Yorkshire Arboretum has a nifty searchable database of its plants and an interactive map HERE.

Fun and instructive to find a favourite or unusual tree on the map, then at the Arboretum.

(From the Arboretum homepage http://www.yorkshirearboretum.org/ use the dropdown menu “Arboretum” then “The Collection”.)

The Arboretum says of the map:-

“We believe the Yorkshire Arboretum is the only UK garden to have this type of resource. It’s really simple to use, with clear search menus and simple buttons to select the background information displayed. Just search for a tree and click on the pin for information from the database. Please give it a try and tell us what you think.

The interactive map is part of our Geographic Information System (GIS), developed by the Stockholm Environment Institute, University of York using data from a full topographic survey conducted last year by Latitude Surveys, all linked to the Arboretum’s own database. A huge amount of time has also been given by volunteers and staff and we’re grateful to everyone who has helped create this incredibly powerful tool.

The GIS project has been made possible through generous funding from the Peter Sowerby Foundation and the Tom Sherwood Bequest: this assistance makes it possible to plan for the Arboretum’s long-term future.”