Leave Station car park 9.15am. Parking at Layby on A684 before West Witton (GR:SE 068 885, What3Words: ///mistaking.hobbyists.gasp). Start walk at 10.00am. 10 Miles. Moderate but with steep ascent. £7

Our walk takes us, by a steep ascent in places, to the top of Penhill with great views all around. From there we walk along Penhill Scar, Black Scar and across the moor to the Height of Hazely. We descend, again on a steep path, to Cote Bridge and make our way to the picturesque waterfall at West Burton. As we make our way back to the start we will pass the interesting remains of a Knights Templar Preceptory and Chapel dating back to the 12^th C. Then it is along the green Langthwaite Lane back to the village of West Witton.

Leave Station car park 9.15am. Parking beside The CB Inn in Arkengarthdale DL11 6EN (GR:NZ 000 031, What3Words:///saying.televise.shiver). Start walk at 10.00am. 5 Miles. Moderate. £7

An invigorating walk to work up an appetite for Sunday lunch at the historic 18^th Century CB Inn, named after a descendant of physician Dr John Bathurst who bought the dale in 1656 and whose family did much to develop lead mining here.  We head for the imposing Scar House and climb up onto the top of the scar. Heading for the tiny hamlet of Booze, we will see signs of the lead mining industry and the location where scenes from Wuthering Heights were filmed. Heading down to Arkle Beck we follow the river back to the CB via Langthwaite which featured in the opening shots for the iconic series, All Creatures Great and Small.  Please bring a drink and a snack for a stop on route. Walk participants will be contacted prior to the walk for their lunchtime menu choices.

The Station, Richmond, DL10 4LD | 10:00am – 4:00pm | free | café, bookstall, disabled access

Promoting Yorkshire Authors will be showcasing and selling books from a wide range of talented authors writing in a variety of genres, with interesting author talks being given in the Boardroom. Alongside the talks will be an exciting opportunity to contribute to a community poem about Richmond. Throughout the day, people can write a couple of words, which will be collated at the end of the event into a poem by our talented poets. There’s something for everyone, from fiction to non-fiction, crime to historical fantasy, delightful children’s books to gripping adult fiction, memoirs to poetry and much more. A great chance to find your new favourite author.

Further information on the featured authors and titles will be available on this webpage as soon as these are finalised.

Richmond Town Hall, DL10 4QL| 4:00pm | £15 includes tea and scones | refreshments | bookstall | disabled access.  

Another event showcasing the work of two authors.

Presenting his memoire, Across Mountains, Land and Sea, Mir Rahimi describes an extraordinary and true story of hope, courage and survival, of one boy’s journey across the world to find safety.

Mir was born in Afghanistan and came to Britain in 2001 at the age of 14 years. He entered secondary school for the first time that year with very limited English and a decade later graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science. His is a truly remarkable story.

In Tawseef Khan's Determination, a fictional work describing another side of the immigrant experience, Jamila Shah is twenty-nine and exhausted. An immigration solicitor tasked with running the precious family law firm, Jamila is prone to being woken in the middle of the night by frantic phone calls from clients on the cusp of deportation. Working under the shadow of the Government’s ‘hostile environment’, she constantly prays and hopes that their ‘determinations’ will result in her clients being allowed to stay. In this assured and character-driven debut, we meet the staff of Shah & Co Solicitors, who themselves arrived in the UK not too long ago, and their clients, more recent arrivals – all trying to achieve some semblance of normality. 

Tawseef is a qualified immigration solicitor and holds a doctoral degree from the University of Liverpool, where he examined the fairness of the British asylum system. He is also a prize-winning graduate of the Creative Writing Programme at the University of East Anglia.

Georgian Theatre Royal, Richmond DL10 4DW | 7:30pm | £15 | from www.georgiantheatreroyal.co.uk | bar | bookstall | disabled access

1973. Hours after a mysterious phone call is made to the police, a train pulls into Sunderland station with a dead body on board. Cause of death: strangulation. Victim: unknown. Witnesses: none. Undeterred by this baffling set of circumstances, newly promoted Police Sergeant Aline James vows to crack the case and prove her critics wrong! But when her famously ruthless investigation tactics yield no results, she is forced to seek help from unlikely allies: unassuming assassin John Brown and calamitous actor Tony Davies. As the bodies pile up, can this unusual trio thwart a devilishly complex plot, before one of them, actually, becomes a corpse?

Well-known for his beloved books and television adaptations of The Horrible Histories, Terry Deary has always loved reading murder mysteries. For his 350th book he finally decided to write his own, titled ‘Actually, I’m a Murderer’. He now follows up with the second title in the series ‘Actually, I’m a Corpse’

‘Extraordinarily fun and oh-so-gripping’  - The i Paper

‘[A] smart, funny and deftly executed page turner’  - The Guardian