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Jun 2024
100 vehicles expected to take part in Nidderdale Tractor Run
About 100 tractors are expected to take part in the third Nidderdale Tractor Run on Sunday (June 30).
The event, which raises money for Yorkshire Air Ambulance, will see the vehicles parade on a 40-mile route through glorious countryside. It has grown significantly on last year, when it attracted 55 tractors.
The route starts and finishes at R+J Butchers in Kirkby Malzeard.
The vehicles are due to depart at 10.30am then pass through Wath Bridge at 12.30pm before stopping at the Nidderdale Showground in Pateley Bridge from 12.40pm to 1.10pm.
They are then expected to go through Sawley at 2.20pm, Winksley at 2.45pm, Galphay at 2.55pm and Laverton at 3.10pm before returning to Kirkby Malzeard for a 3.30pm finish and barbecue.
The event raises money for Yorkshire Air Ambulance.
Organiser Simon Dickinson, who also arranged last year’s tinsel tractor run that started and ended in Ripon, said he was delighted with the response, but he didn’t want the event to get as big as the Knaresborough Tractor Run, which more than 400 vehicles took part in this year.
Mr Dickinson said he set up the event to support the air ambulance’s life-saving work.
The run started because a friend of mine had a paramotor crash and the Yorkshire Air Ambulance was called and it saved his life.
I also lost my dad when I was 24 in 1994 when we were in Littlethorpe. We didn’t have an air ambulance then and the ambulance arrived two hours late because we were in the middle of nowhere.
If the air ambulance was around then he might still be here.
The event generated £2,000 last year.
The tinsel tractor run is expected to take place again this year on December 7.
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