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If you’re new to Yorkshire see what it has to offer on our Introduction page. We have now added more than 1,000 places to our A to Y Gazetteer of Yorkshire. We've listed the cities and towns and now many of the villages, with links to pages providing more information or to pinpoint villages on our unique Yorkshire map. The Home button links you to many other parts of Yorkshire.guide And look below for our frequently updated page with some of our newest items about Yorkshire issues and events in more detail ....... York's ghosts haunt city gardens
The popular annual Ghosts in the Gardens event, enhancing York's reputation as a haunted city, features a trail of see-through sculptures in gardens and around historic sites. A map of the trail can be downloaded from the York BID website or picked up at the visitor centre at Back Swinegate.
The Ghosts In The Gardens trail continues until Sunday November 1. The ghosts' stay in the city is extended for a few more days when around 70 sculptures also feature in a ticketed illuminated evening event "Ghosts After Dark" around the York Museum Gardens, King's Manor Courtyard and Library Lawn from November 4 to 8.
Find out more about the trail at this 
Ghosts in the Gardens
Ghosts in the Gardens York
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Open studios in Beverley
Spread around venues in the East Riding county town, painters, potters, printers, photographers, jewellers and framers will be showing their work in their creative places over the weekend of October 3 and 4 and again on October 10 and 11 with free entry between 10am and 4pm each day. Organisers have created a map to guide visitors to the studios.
Find out more at the Beverley Open Studios website
Beverley Open Studios Beverley
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Book-lovers treat at Ilkley Literature Festival
One of the best-loved festivals of its kind in the North of England, it includes digital events as well as live talks by poets, authors and writers on stage. Events take place at several venues around Ilkley including Ilkley Playhouse, King's Hall, All Saints' Church, Ilkley Grammar School and Clarke Foley Centre.
Find out more at the
Ilkley Literature Festival Ilkley
Festival of Words in East Riding
Popular and new authors will be giving talks at several locations across the East Riding during the festival organised by East Riding Libraries and the festival also includes craft workshops and a poetry competition.
Events are taking place in libraries and various other venues including Toll Gavel Church and the Guildhall in Beverley, Bridlington Spa, Newbald Village Hall, Brough Petuaria Centre, Driffield Centre and Pocklington Arts Centre.
More information at this
East Riding Libraries - Festival of Words Cottingham
Weekday trains across Pennines back on direct route
Much work has been achieved during the 16 days and not all in the public view as much of the work was carried out in the Huddersfield and Gledholt tunnels. Many gantries have been erected for electrification of the line during the period and work has continued on upgrading Deighton station, where replacement buses are planned until next year, and on a major reconfiguration of Huddersfield station.
Work between Huddersfield and Dewsbury is a major part of plans for faster journeys on the TransPennine route between York and Manchester as it is there that two major routes cross, sharing the same tracks between two junctions. This is now being bypassed by two extra fast tracks which avoid both junctions.
After weekday operation until Friday there is one further weekend of closure at Huddersfield next Saturday and Sunday (October 10-11) when a reduced service of through trains will again divert via Brighouse and the Calder Valley line and trains normally operating towards Huddersfield will be operating through Brighouse or terminating at Stalybridge, Lockwood or Wakefield Kirkgate with bus replacement needed to reach Huddersfield. Work at this location will then be continuing away from the operational tracks before a final push towards the finish of the main works at Huddersfield during another full line closure from the last train on Christmas Eve to the end of January.
Seven stations on the Huddersfield line will again be without trains next weekend — Mossley, Greenfield , Marsden , Slaithwaite and Huddersfield adding to the longer-term closure of Deighton and Ravensthorpe .
While trains across the Pennines next weekend will operate to the same diversion map as the previous weekend, there have been some tweaks in the extent of journeys trains will make which may mean, for example, needing to make an additional change at Manchester Victoria to reach Manchester Airport on some journeys from Yorkshire.
This is partly due to bus replacements also taking place between Leeds and York next Saturday and Sunday (October 10-11). Services between Leeds and Selby and towards Hull will run as will trains on the considerably longer route between Leeds and York via Harrogate. Further work between Leeds and York will cause various other disruptions up to the end of October.
Proposed industrial action at TransPennine Express on Sundays in October may result in cancellations and service alterations over and above the planned engineering works timetable detailed here.Please visit operators websites for more information and timetables.
Check details of your journey at the National Rail website.
National Rail For more information about work on this line see the TransPennine Route Upgrade website.
TransPennine Route Upgrade 
Trams operating only half way to Halfway
Updated details can be found at this Travel South Yorkshire - Supertram web page.
Travel South Yorkshire - Supertram 
Tour de France Grand Départ in Yorkshire in 2027
The prestigious event boosted a massive interest in cycling in Yorkshire when the men's race Grand Départ was held in Yorkshire in 2014.
The Tour returns with the first two days of the women's race next year while the men's Scotland to Wales Grand Départ also reaches into historic Yorkshire.
The first day for the Tour de France Femmes will start at The Headrow in Leeds on Friday July 30, 2027, to head via Birstall , Heckmondwike , Mirfield and a hill climb to Kirkheaton before reaching Huddersfield .
The following day the race will head back from Manchester through the
The third day of the women's race will be in London before the cyclists head off to France.
Day 1 of the men's race heads from Scotland to England with a stage from Edinburgh to Carlisle. The short stretch of historic Yorkshire is on the Keswick to Liverpool stage on Day 2. The third day is in Wales with a stage from Welshpool to Cardiff.
Awesome abbeys
They can be found in abundance across Yorkshire, all providing rich pieces in a historic jigsaw showing the part these monastic communities played in the region between the 12th and 16th centuries.
You can find out more about Yorkshire’s monastic settlements on our Abbeys page, including which ones have free access and which require a ticket to visit.
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