Skipwith Common News Today

Free tours of Skipwith Common nature reserve and former Second World War bomber base near Selby.

THE snow a few weeks ago was a gift to Camera Club members who were out in force taking some wonderful photos.

A DAY out turned into more like as SAS mission for a group of York youngsters on Skipwith Common. The five workers, along with two mentors, came across an elderly man who had suffered a heart attack. So the group of heroes, from the group Ad Astra, including mentors Luke Dixon and Leigh Paul-Rientoul, Alex McKenna, Callum McKenzie and Tyler Nicholson sprang into action. Ad Astra director Sam Shaw said: “We’re an organisation that works with disengaged people across the north of Engl...

IF youve never been to Yearsley Woods, then youre in for a treat - weather permitting, of course. No,were not talking about a small patch of trees beside the River Foss in York. This is a proper forest woodland in the Howardian Hills 10 miles or so north of the city. It gets its name from the tiny hamlet of Yearsley, near Ampleforth. And it is glorious. The woods arent, perhaps, that ancient. Most of the trees are Forestry Commission plantations that date from the 20th century. But th...