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What’s on?
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Swaledale & Arkengarthdale
What’s on in Swaledale & Arkengarthdale?
Diary dates
Reeth Gazette
The Reeth & District Gazette is the free local news magazine of Arkengarthdale and Swaledale. It is also available as a pdf download here. This page also has
an archive of previous editions & a list of advertisers.
It carries news of the many activities happening in the two dales, readers' letters, church & chapel events, local parish councils' reports, advance notices of
forthcoming events and programs for them.
Market days
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Reeth: held every Friday on Reeth Green.
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Richmond: Saturday & Farmers Market every 3
rd
Saturday of the month
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Leyburn: held every Friday on the town squares.
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Northallerton: Wednesdays & Saturdays on both sides of the High Street.
Swaledale Museum
The Museum, Shop & Café are open daily 10.30 to 5.30, apart from Saturdays, Easter to the end of October. Exhibits explain the development of the area from
its geological foundations, via early human occupation in the Iron Age, to the growth and decline of lead mining between the 1650s and1950s.
There are many exhibits illustrating the lives and work of the Dales' people.
The 'Friends of the Museum' organise many talks and walks and produce an informative newsletter.
Reeth Community Orchard
The Community Orchard Garden is open all year round to those who enjoy borders full of colourful perennials, a shady bench under a tree or beside seasonally
planted tubs, an area where young children can play using their imagination, and a small flower meadow recreating those seen and preserved higher up the dale.
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The Orchard Gallery. Don’t miss seeing the giant allium sculpture made by Michael Kusz from bicycle parts to mark the Tour de France and sponsored by the
Swaledale Festival.
There are frequent art exhibitions in the conservatory. See the diary dates page.
The Parish Newsletter
The monthly newsletter of the Parish of Swaledale with Arkengarthdale, a United Parish of the four Anglican churches of the two Dales.
The Visitor
The Official Guide to the Yorkshire Dales National Park and an essential read. It may be collected free from Hudson House and many other places. It may be
viewed online here. It has many articles and pages of diary dates covering the whole National Park.
Muker Silver Band
Reeth Brass Band
Melbecks Society
The Melbecks Society has a programme of interesting talks usually held on Thursday evenings at 7:30 pm in the Low Row Institute.
2Dales Junior Football Club
The football club for both boys and girls aged 5 to 14 years. The Club is based at the Reeth Athletic Field operated by the Reeth and District Community Sports
Club Ltd. Orchard Lane, Reeth. N Yorks DL11 6TT and uses the new excellent floodlit MUGA and superb changing facilities, club room and kitchen. See their
website for full information.
Wensleydale Rugby Union Football Club
Near Leyburn in Wensleydale, this flourishing rugby football club has mini teams for U7 to +12, Junior for U13 to +17 and 2nd & 1st XV teams.
Reeth and District Community Sports Club (Face-book page)
The new excellent floodlit Multi-use Games Area with superb changing facilities, club room and kitchen. It’s used by many groups in the two dales, such as the
Junior Football Club above.
Misc.