Reports of previous events:              Forthcoming events - See below     

Nov 2011 - Launch of our new publication - "The Villages Book" which explores the villages in the High Wolds Heritage Group.    £8.95

Each village has a chapter of photographs and there are other chapters about farming, trades and transport, schools, churches and chapels of all the villages.

Oct 2011 - At the AGM, Steve Bence gave a presentation about a proposed project at Hanging Grimston, in the Thixendale Parish.  If you would like to know more, please contact the HWHG via the 'e-mail us' link.

July 2011 - Guided Walk round Acklam with Keith Holtby

June 2011 - "Graveyard Discoveries" by Malin Holst

June 2011- Wartime Exhibition at Sledmere

May 2011 - A talk by Tony Wilson at the Wagoners Special Reserve Museum, Sledmere House 

Apr 2011 - Guided walk round Wetwang by geologist Richard Myerscough

Feb 24 2011 - "Hind Houses & Memories of North Dalton" - a talk by Peggy Dunn and Ray Williams

Dec 31 2010 - We are extremely happy to announce the award of an MBE for Pauline Foster in the New Year's Honours List

Nov 2010 - Book Launch & signing.  A celebration of the second publication of the HWHG.

Oct 2010 - AGM and "The Kiplingcotes Derby" - a talk by Guy Stephenson

June 2010 - Huggate Dikes, Well and St Mary's Church

June 2010 - "Wartime on the Wolds" - Exhibition at Sledmere House

May 2010 - "The Land Girls of Yorkshire" - a performance by The Bad Apple Theatre Company

May 2010 - "Land Girls" - a talk by Dorothy Taylor

Mar 2010 - Wartime Memorabilia Event

Mar 2010 - Visit to Hull History Centre

Dec 2009 - Christmas Social and Story Telling

Nov 2009 - Visit to the Borthwick Institute at the University of York

Oct 2009 - East Riding of Yorkshire Dialect Evening

Sept 2009 - Wetwang, Fimber & Fridaythorpe Exhibition in Wetwang Community Hall

June 2009 - Guided Walk round Sledmere

May 2009 - "The Wetwang Saga" - The story of Fridaythorpe, Fimber and Wetwang" Book launch and signing by the author David Lunn.

Please see Publications page for purchasing details

Apr 2009 - "Using the internet for family history research" - An illustrated talk by Andrew Sefton

Mar 2009 - “The Malton & Driffield Railway” - An Illustrated Talk by Warwick Burton

Jan 2009 - Opening of the "Sound & Light Tour" of St Mary’s Church, Thixendale

Jan 2009 - Training at the Treasure House, Beverley

Dec 2008 - "Yorkshire Dialect" - Chris Whitfield and Ivy Eden

Nov 2008 - “The Yorkshire Wolds”- An illustrated talk by Dr David Neave

Oct 2008 - "Thixendale in the 1960s" - A presentation by Brian Eden

Oct 2008 - Interviews for BBC "Look North"

Aug 2008 - "The deserted medieval village of Wharram Percy" - A guided walk by Alistair Oswald

July 2008 - "The Features of St Mary's Church, Thixendale"  A talk by Phil Thomas  and High Wolds Heritage Group Exhibition

Mar 2008 - "Anglo-Saxons and Vikings at Burdale"  A talk by Prof. Julian Richards, University of York

Feb 2008 - "Reminiscences of the Malton and Driffield Railway" by Dave Sharpe

 Forthcoming events:

Meetings are at Thixendale Village Hall, and are FREE, unless stated otherwise

Everyone is welcome!

Friday 25th November - 7.30pm in St. Mary’s Church, Huggate 

You are invited to the launch of another new publication - "Huggate School and Village: 1870 - 1900" written by Trevor Smith.  £6

To launch this book children of Huggate will present a short play about the life of people who lived in the village during the late Victorian Age, using the words and images of the day.  Come and find out what it was like to live, work and study in the village at that time.  Everyone is welcome.

There will be refreshments and entry is FREE.  Wrap up warm - the church may be cold!

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More events are being planned - watch this space !

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