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Rural Arts is a registered charity that delivers inspiring and inclusive creative opportunities that enrich lives and connect communities

Rural Arts

Arts

Rural Arts is a registered charity that delivers inspiring and inclusive creative opportunities that enrich lives and connect communities. We run The Courthouse, which is open Tuesday - Saturday, 10am - 4pm, where we provide over 400 events and activities each year alongside an award-winning café, an artisan shop and rooms to hire. We programme 70 professional performances per year in rural venues and lead a range of wellbeing and employment programmes to support vulnerable people. Rural Arts was founded in 1993 and is an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation.

  • Address The Old Courthouse, YO7 1QS
  • Telephone 01845 526536
Visitors to Thirsk Hall Sculpture Garden can enjoy the outdoor sculpture exhibition, the beautiful maintained gardens and visit the brand Workshop Gallery space which is new for 2022

Thirsk Hall Sculpture Garden

Arts

Thirsk Hall Sculpture Garden (open all year round from 14th May 2022) welcomes visitors each week on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, from 11AM - 5PM. Visitors can enjoy the outdoor sculpture exhibition, the beautiful maintained gardens and visit the brand Workshop Gallery space which is new for 2022. Thirsk Hall Sculpture Garden lies hidden to the west of Thirsk Hall and was opened to the public for the first time in May 2021.

  • Address Kirkgate, YO7 1PL
  • Telephone +44 (0) 203 764 2470
At THirsk Museum Explore rooms full of exhibits featuring local life and industry, cricketing memorabilia, farming equipment, furniture, costumes and toys

Thirsk Museum

Museum

Experience the history of Thirsk in the house where Thomas Lord, founder of Lord’s Cricket Ground, was born in 1755. Explore rooms full of exhibits featuring local life and industry, cricketing memorabilia, farming equipment, furniture, costumes and toys. Marvel at the bones of our Saxon Giant and shudder at the legend of the Busby Stoop Chair!

  • Address 14-16 Kirkgate, YO7 1PQ
  • Telephone 01845 527707
Travel back in time to what life was like when James Herriot was practicing

World Of James Herriot

Museum

Walk through his fully-restored 1940s home and surgery in Thirsk; travel back in time to what life was like when James was practicing. See the car he drove, step into the TV set, try your hand at being a vet, plus so much more including interactive games for Herriot fans of all ages. A visit to the World of James Herriot is something you will never forget.

  • Address 23 Kirkgate, YO7 1PL
  • Telephone 01845 524234
Zillah Bell gallery is an independent gallery has earned a reputation for the range and quality of the work on show, especially original Prints, etchings, engravings, screenprints and lithographs

Zillah Bell Gallery

Arts

Established in 1988, the Gallery has earned a reputation for the range and quality of the work on show, especially Original Prints: etchings, engravings, screenprints and lithographs. Zillah Bell Gallery acts solely on behalf of our artists. We are not art dealers so our prices are the same as buying direct from the artist. This also permits us to exhibit work by many of today's leading artists.

  • Address 15 Kirkgate, YO7 1PQ
  • Telephone 01845 522479
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1, Roses Yd, Market Pl, Thirsk YO7 1LH
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"A traditional market town nestled between the Yorkshire Dales and the North York Moors"


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