A rural community website serving the Yorkshire Dales villages of Austwick, Eldroth, Feizor, parts of Keasden, Lawkland and Wharfe

 

AUSTWICK FIELD AND LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY

Photos from left to right:

  Foxglove. Cinnabar Moth.  Norber Erratics.

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Photos courtesy of Mike Clarke from Austwick & Vernon Dixon from Toronto, Canada

 

The society was formed in December 1998 with the aim of encouraging interest in local history and natural history within the village. A programme of talks and walks is arranged each year.

Notices giving detailed information  are displayed on the Parish Hall Notice Board, in the village shop, and on this Website before each talk or walk with details of time and place.

Further information and copies of the programme may be obtained from the Secretary.

 

Austwick Field & Local History Society 

Programme of Events for 2009 

 

July 15th	‘Settle Folly’ A visit to the Settle Folly led by Anne Read.
August 19th	To be confirmed.
September 16th	‘Long Preston Wet Grassland Project’ An illustrated talk by David Tayler, Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust.
October 21st	'The Annual General Meeting' to be followed by a Local History Quiz.
November 18th	‘Landscape Stories in the Forest of Bowland’ An illustrated talk by Cathy Hopley, Communities & Funding Officer with the Forest of Bowland AONB.

 

Talks will start at 7.30pm in the Parish Hall.

Walks and visits will start at 6.30pm from the arranged venue

Further information and copies of the programme may be obtained from

the Secretary as may details of membership.

 

Association Secretary:

 David Dewhirst, Wood View, The Green, Austwick. Tel: 015242 51190,

or by Email:  woodview@austwick.org

 

Information on meetings  are also advertised on the Parish  Notice Board.

 

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