News Update

 

Broadcaster Julia Bradbury Supports Walkers are Welcome

We were pleased to learn that broadcaster Julia Bradbury is supportive of what Walkers are Welcome are doing. Here's what she wrote recently about the Scheme:

 

(image courtesy Daily Telegraph)

"The Walkers Are Welcome Scheme is a truly innovative project. It's such a simple concept; set up an accreditation scheme for walk-friendly towns, then encourage the towns to network together for support, advice and ideas. That simplicity has led to jaw dropping success; 71 towns and villages have signed up to the scheme in just three years. This is partly due to the unique grass-roots way that the scheme is proposed, and then set up, in the towns - it involves all the local community and leads, of course, to the community really engaging and welcoming the walkers that they attract as a consequence. More broadly, it shows that people genuinely love welcoming walkers to their 'homes'; to show off what lies on their back doorstep, to share the pleasures people themselves feel from
walking, and also because walkers make the perfect guests! "

Julia recently visited Market Weighton in 2011 when BBC’s CountryFile programme featured the East Yorkshire Wolds and the Kiplingcotes Derby, England’s oldest flat race, which has been run each year since 1719 just two miles from our town centre. We congratulate Julia on the birth of her son, Zephyr, in July 2011.

 

Major Exhibition of David Hockney's Wolds Paintings

The Royal Academy of Arts in London held a major exhibition of David Hockney's paintings of the Wolds in East Yorkshire. The exhibition was titled David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture and ran from 21st January until 9th April 2012. As a result the East Yorkshire Wolds area that we regularly walk is deservedly becoming known as Hockney Country. Click Here for more information and a video featuring David Hockney talking about this critically acclaimed exhibition.

 

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