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Monday evening racing at Ripon
Ripon RacesRipon Races in North Yorkshire has an evening of racing this Monday (July 7) including the City of Ripon Handicap.
There are six races planned with the first race at 6.30pm and the last race at 9.00pm.
Further information can be found at the racecourse website: 
Ripon Races.
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Ripon Yorkshire.guide/Ripon
Last chance to see 60th Wildlife Photographer exhibition
Sewerby HallIt's the last chance to see the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025 exhibition as it visits Sewerby Hall at Sewerby near Bridlington in the East Riding from the Natural History Museum in London.
The 60th exhibition has been on show since the start of May at the Grade I listed Georgian country house by the sea which also has a small zoo in its gardens. The last of the daily openings to see the wildlife photography is on Sunday July 13.
The exhibition showcases the best of some 60,000 pictures entered from around the world capturing some spectacular animal behaviour.
Bridlington Yorkshire.guide/Bridlington
Year of events in City of Culture
The Bradford Live entertainment venue Bradford, West Yorkshire's second-largest city, continues its year as UK City of Culture 2025 which began with a big opening show in January.
2025 sees the city and surrounding metropolitan district present hundreds of arts performances and events during the year.
Bradford Yorkshire.guide/Bradford
Yorkshire's railway heritage stretches beyond 200 years
The Middleton Railway is the world's oldest continuously working railwayWhile a "Railway 200" celebration is launched by Network Rail in 2025 as the "200th anniversary of the birth of the modern railway" it is worth remembering that the railway history of Yorkshire stretches back many decades before then.
The anniversary marks the 200th anniversary of The Stockton & Darlington Railway which was opened on September 27, 1825, on a route between the two towns in historic County Durham but was later extended into Yorkshire and the port of Middlesbrough.
Yorkshire however can trace its railway history back long before 1825.
The Middleton Railway, near Leeds, has the distinction of being the world's oldest continuously working railway, established 67 years earlier than the Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1758.
It became the first railway to the authorised by an act of Parliament, the Middleton Railway Act 1757.
Blenkinsop's 1812 rack locomotive Salamanca From 1829 engraving. Public domain source at Wikimedia Commons It initially operated as a horse-drawn waggon-way to take coal from the Middleton collieries towards Leeds. But the steam age also arrived earlier in Yorkshire, when in 1812, some 13 years before the Stockton & Darlington Railway, the Middleton railway operated the first successful commercial steam locomotive.
The locomotive Salamanca was the first of four built for the colliery railway. With its twin-cylinder design it was more sophisticated than the experimental steam locomotives of Richard Trevithick a few years earlier. The locomotives were designed and built in Leeds by Matthew Murray to work with a rack railway track which had been designed and patented by John Blenkinsop, the colliery manager.
The Middleton Railway today runs as a heritage passenger line with a museum at its Moor Road station revealing its long history. The line reopened after winter maintenance on Saturday April 5.
The Penistone Line Partnership is running a viaduct photography competitionScarborough has the world's longest station seatThe Keighley and Worth Valley Railway steam galaA train at the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway's recent steam galaAs part of the Railway 200 celebrations the Middleton Railway will be hosting a series of three evening talks during May, June and July commemorating the contribution of Leeds to the development of the railways. The railway is also restoring the world's smallest standard gauge diesel locomotive, built 90 years ago by the Hunslet Engine Co, to mark the pioneering role Leeds played also in diesel locomotive development.
Many other Railway 200 events are taking place to celebrate railway heritage in Yorkshire including art and photography exhibitions, drama and rail tours and even a student attempt to seat as many people as possible on the world's longest station seat at Scarborough station.
More about Railway 200 at Network Rail.
Heritage Railways
A dozen Seaside Awards for Yorkshire in 2025
The beach at Whitby has both a Blue Flag and a Seaside Award in 2025Hornsea has a 2025 Blue FlagWithernsea has a 2025 Blue FlagOnce again a dozen Yorkshire beaches have Seaside Awards in 2025 and three Yorkshire beaches have international Blue Flag awards.
The awards each year are made by the environment charity Keep Britain Tidy — the international Blue Flags on behalf of the Foundation for Environmental Education.
Beaches with Seaside Awards in 2025 are Redcar (Lifeboat Station beach), Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Runswick Bay, Sandsend, Whitby, Robin Hood's Bay, Scarborough (North Bay), Cayton Bay, Filey, South Landing at Flamborough, Bridlington (North beach) and (Wilsthorpe beach). The awards are presented to England's best beaches.
Whitby together with Hornsea and Withernsea have the Blue Flag, the world’s most recognised award for beaches, marinas and bathing waters which are measured against the highest bathing water standards of the European Union. The award highlights beaches with like standards across the world.
Find out more on our Seaside page.
Seaside Yorkshire.guide/seaside
Yorkshire mixture
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Cities Largest towns and cities Population Gazetteer Abbeys Castles Film locations Forest of Bowland Heritage Coast Heritage railways Highest mountains Historic Houses Howardian Hills Museums Nidderdale North Pennines North York Moors Peak District Racecourses Seaside York Yorkshire Dales Yorkshire football Railway stations
On Ilkla Moor Baht ’at
If you’re from Yorkshire you will probably recognise our background picture as the Cow and Calf Rocks on Ilkley Moor, famous as the location of the Yorkshire dialect anthem "On Ilkla Moor Baht ’at". More on Ilkley.
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Pennine Way 60: Anniversary of long-distance walking route with more than 100 miles in Yorkshire.
Bradford City of Culture: Opening show for West Yorkshire city named City of Culture 2025.
News archive 2024: News from 2024.
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News archive 2022: News from 2022.
News archive 2021: News from 2021.
News archive 2020: News from 2020.
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News archive 2017: News from 2017.
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