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Richmond Community - Richmond Walking & Book Festival • 25 Sept - 4th Oct
One of the friendliest, interesting and fun festivals around!
Richmond in North Yorkshire is one of Britain’s best kept secrets, a beautiful Georgian Market Town complete with river, castle, large cobbled market place, surrounded by the hills of Swaledale and miles of dry stone walls. Located in the centre of mainland Britain it is a favourite stopping point on Wainwright’s famous Coast to Coast walk recently voted “second best walk in the world”.
Richmond has been a favourite base for walkers and visitors for centuries and it is ideally placed close to the A1 north south, the A66 east west, Darlington East Coast main line railway station and Teesside Airport.
2009 sees the fifth Richmond Walking Festival where guided walks of between 2 – 13 miles take people into the glorious countryside of Swaledale and Wensleydale and the other delightful areas that surround this stunning Georgian market town.
The third Book Festival welcomes some great writers including Ruth Rendell, Ian Rankin, Peter Robinson, Martin Wainwright and Anne Fine. There are films and slide shows, book fairs, literary lunches, live theatre from the award winning North Country Theatre, music from Eliza Carthy and radio drama workshops from Archers writer Joanne Toye.
Books & Boots runs from Friday 25thth September to Sunday 4th October offering a wide variety of events to see and do during the day and in the evening for visitors and locals alike.
We look forward to welcoming you to beautiful Swaledale and Richmond