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Read all about our forthcoming events, reports from North Yorkshire Police,
Leyburn Primary School, Town Council, Wensleydale School, Leyburn Band,
the Arts and Community Centre, Wensleydale Railway
and much more!
Welcome to Leyburn
Market Town & gateway
to the North Yorkshire Dales
Leyburn is a small market town
first recorded in the Domesday book
and sits 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
many owned by generations
of local residents
for over 100 years.
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 regular 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
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.
The only local magazine
hand delivered, for 53yrs
come rain or shine!
The magazine was first printed,
as a community publication,
in 1973 on a 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 OVER HALF A CENTURY!
In March 2018 the magazine
was updated to a quality full colour
magazine, and is now printed using
responsibly sourced paper and materials
by certified carbon balanced printers,
who are proud to support the fantastic
work World Land Trust are doing
to protect threatened habitats and wildlife.
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,
DEADLINE FOR EVERYTHING IS
15th OF THE MONTH PRIOR TO
MONTH OF PUBLICATION
See details below for advertising
in the magazine.
Unlike magazines which appear quarterly and are left on counters
in the hope someone picks them up, Leyburn Life magazine
is now the only monthly magazine hand delivered,
free of charge, to all residents and businesses
in Leyburn and Bellerby and sold in newsagents.
NB: All business advertising is on an annual basis - March to the following February.
A full page business advert, for one month only, must be pre-booked and paid for in advance.
There may be an occasion when a smaller space is available, for the year,
due to a business moving out of the area, closing down or on retirement.
If you would like to advertise, are tracing ancestors, planning a holiday
or short break in Leyburn/Wensleydale we would love to hear from you