Community and local organisations
The Esk Valley is a living community of farms, villages and small businesses, not a theme park. These are some of the organisations that keep it going, and that visitors can support or join.
Esk Valley News
Esk Valley News is the valley's own quarterly magazine, covering the life, history, folklore and wildlife of the Esk Valley, the moors and the coast. It is sold in shops and post offices from Castleton to Scarborough and by postal or digital subscription.
Esk Valley Railway Development Company
The EVRDC is the community rail partnership for the Middlesbrough to Whitby line. It looks after the stations with volunteer adopters, produces the walk leaflets and line guide, campaigns for better services and organises events on the railway. Anyone can join.
Esk Valley Theatre
Esk Valley Theatre stages a professional production every August at the Robinson Institute in Glaisdale, and has done since 2005.
The Moors National Park Centre
The national park's centre at Danby runs volunteering programmes, guided walks, talks and family events, and is the place to ask about the park's work on the river, the moors and the pearl mussel.
Village halls and institutes
Most villages have a hall or institute that hosts shows, markets, quoits suppers, film nights and the agricultural show committees: the Robinson Institute at Glaisdale, the village halls at Castleton, Danby, Lealholm, Egton Bridge, Grosmont, Goathland and Sleights among them. Notices are on village boards and in the parish newsletters.
Agricultural shows and traditions
The Danby, Egton, Glaisdale and Castleton shows, the Egton Bridge Gooseberry Show, the Goathland Plough Stots and the Danby Court Leet are all run by volunteers and welcome visitors. See what's on.
Parish councils
The villages are governed by parish and town councils, including Danby Group Parish Council (Danby, Castleton, Commondale, Westerdale and Ainthorpe), Glaisdale, Egton, Grosmont, Goathland, Eskdaleside cum Ugglebarnby (Sleights and Ruswarp) and Whitby Town Council. Minutes and contacts are on the village noticeboards.
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