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Extract from the Thirsk Travel Guides:
The small market town of
THIRSK
, 23 miles north of York, made the most of its strategic crossroads position on the ancient drove road between Scotland and York and on the historic east-west route from dales to coast. Its medieval prosperity is clear from the large, cobbled
Market Place
(market days are Monday and Saturday), now overrun by traffic, while later well-to-do citizens endowed the town with a bevy of commendable Georgian houses and halls. However, Thirsk's main draw is its attachment to the legacy of local vet Alf Wight, better known as
James Herriott
. Thirsk was the "Darrowby"...
read the whole Thirsk Travel Guides...
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