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Feb 2022
Boroughbridge Walking Festival to return in April
A Boroughbridge walking group has announced its annual Easter walking festival will return in April after a two-year hiatus due to covid.
The Boroughbridge and the Lower Ure Valley Walks group is made up of volunteer walking enthusiasts helping to share local walks. The group also organises an annual festival which includes a long walk for people to enjoy together.
This year's walks include a 16-mile river walk and will take place across four days, April 15 to 18.
The festival has been going since 2008 and will this year feature a new walk from Whixley to a grade II listed church in Allerton Mauleverer.
The walk is in conjunction with the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Boroughbridge. The battle, between Edward II and his cousin the Earl of Lancaster, who was in collusion with the Scots, involved several thousand soldiers. The majority supported the king.
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The festival includes a walk, a tour of the town and a visit to the Devil's Arrows- four standing stones with the highest almost seven metres tall.
The festival had to be cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to various covid restrictions.
The full festival guide will be available here shortly.
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