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in Butcher Row, others at the North end of Saturday all clothes were hand-made from scratch.

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and Michelin starred starred Michelin and Gardens on woollen cloth to shrink and thicken it around the roots to treat illnesses and wounds. Can you find packed cultural calendar for outdoor outdoor for calendar cultural packed

to make plans, meet meet plans, make to

hidden gems? gems? hidden town is a place to be be to place a is town

fare to cafe culture culture cafe to fare 10 ‘Walker Beck’, which now runs beneath Walkergate. the four healing plants? don’t forget to take a look at the the at look a take to forget don’t

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Tiger Lane How many footprints can you find?

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With so many stories stories many so With A Cordwainer made footwear out of the finest surgeons, pulled teeth and healed wounds.

to play, shop shop play, to

musicians and even puppet makers. makers. puppet even and musicians Ba one of the top places places top the of one

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perfect place place perfect

town’s medieval trail reinforces its its reinforces trail medieval town’s WALK 1: ith Minster and with recent recent with and Minster squares and beautiful beautiful and squares 9 make up a pair of shoes at home! doesn’t fall on you!

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tall as its majestic majestic its as tall

Minster, pretty market market pretty Minster, 6. CARTMEN

tham Lane Looking for the the for Looking Wal 4. SPINNERS 21. MERCHANTS

you’ll see the white rabbit that inspired inspired that rabbit white the see you’ll Take a step Can you find a horse and cart near the Market A town standing as as standing town A

With its towering gothic gothic towering its With Spinners were mainly women. Spinning was a The Merchants Guild was the largest in Beverley.

a dog walk, picnic or to fly a kite. kite. a fly to or picnic walk, dog a St Mary’s Church. If you look closely, closely, look you If Church. Mary’s St Cross? In the Middle Ages, carts provided the main

cottage industry, originally done by hand, using a The wool and cloth trade made the town very

form of transport to and from the market. This St. Mary’s grazing cows, it’s the perfect place for for place perfect the it’s cows, grazing

opposite end of town where you’ll find find you’ll where town of end opposite spindle whorl. From the 14th century, spinning wealthy. Spot the old measurements used by

Back in time image from Beverley Minster shows the cart back Church

racecourse, golf course and its resident resident its and course golf racecourse, buildings before heading across to the the to across heading before buildings wheels speeded up production. merchants!

to front because saying ‘putting the cart before the Hengate

there’s always space to play. Home to a a to Home play. to space always there’s

arguably one of Europe’s best Gothic Gothic best Europe’s of one arguably horse’ means doing things in the wrong order. 5. DYERS 22. FISH TRADERS

sprawling grass and woodland where where woodland and grass sprawling

and Saturday. Don’t miss the Minster, Minster, the miss Don’t Saturday. and Discover what life was Beverley dyers used plants to create dyes. Woad The medieval name for Well Lane was

7. GLOVERS the shopping streets out towards the the towards out streets shopping the

markets take place every Wednesday Wednesday every place take markets 15 made blue, madder and brazil - red, weld - orange ‘Fishmarketmoorgate’ - the road between Westwood

Glovers made gloves from leather tanned in the

pasture. From town, meander through through meander town, From pasture. high street stores, while its popular popular its while stores, street high like in Medieval Beverley and bog myrtle - yellow. Can you find one of and the fish market. How many eels can you find

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and armourers - to name just a few! Guild of Minstrels between the rivers Tweed and 13. WIND MILLERS treet er S Firestation enc COWS AND AND COWS Sp T Trent. The Minster and St. Mary’s contain many The remains of several windmills can be found on o l l

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are the musicians near St. Mary’s playing? was locally grown. Can you see the post-mill on el ne CREATIVES, CREATIVES, medieval guilds and trades and the sculptures are ool La Pasture Terrace? Sch positioned close to their original locations. Split 10. ARMOURERS 19

Armourers made armour and weapons for Beverley’s 14. BAKERS

the trail up into four different walks - or spend a soldiers and their horses. Before leaving for battle, Medieval bakers were punished for selling poor HOME TO TO HOME whole day completing it all in one go! Beverley’s soldiers paraded at North Bar. Can you bread - they could be fined or ducked on the find the piece of chain mail? Imagine wearing a ducking stool, which was down Tiger Lane. whole suit of it! Walk carefully! Don’t trip over the loaf of bread! Whether you want to find out where bakers were 14 11. BRICKLAYERS 15. GOLDSMITHS 20 A6 put in the ducking stool for selling poor bread,

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Sip champagne, place your bets Meander along the canal from If you’re travelling here from the Step within or step without on Dating back centuries, Beverley’s Hidden away on North Bar and enjoy the thrill as thundering the heart of Beverley to the River west you may encounter a cow or Beverley’s most prestigious bustling markets are a vital you’ll find Coronation Gardens, hooves race across the pasture. Hull. Taking you from town to two as you venture over the lush street. Constructed in 1409 part of community life and a peaceful oasis in the bustling The town’s popular thoroughbred country in just under a mile, enjoy 500-acre Westwood pasture that using bricks made right here in take place weekly in the aptly town with a sensory area, water horse racing venue first opened the peaceful waters of the Beck, is Beverley’s playground. Home Beverley it was used primarily to named Wednesday and Saturday feature and plenty of seating. For its doors in 1690. Today the home to a boatyard, fishing docks to hundreds of grazing cows, a facilitate taxation, and is the only Markets, while annual food and contemplation or simply to rest racecourse hosts flat racing from and even a submarine. With racecourse, golf course and the surviving brick-built town gate in Christmas festivals take over the your feet, venture past St Mary’s April until September, attracting rowing and motorboats available remains of a medieval forest, the the country. Look down to find town with a feast of delights. Church on Hengate to discover thousands of racegoers and for hire, you’ll also find a historic Westwood is in equal amounts the old North Bar accounts and Beverley’s war memorial gardens. visitors from across the country. barge open to visitors on Sundays a hive of activity and place to discover how much Agnes the Dress to impress at one of in the summer. escape. tiler used to get paid. the county’s top Ladies’ Days, experience a musical race night or celebrate your wedding.