Property News · January 11, 2013

Let's move to Otley, West Yorkshire


If the clubs don’t tempt you, the pubs surely willWhat’s going for it? They like to keep themselves busy in Otley. A scan of the posters in pubs and corner shop windows, and I needed to sit down. Where do they find the time? There are reading clubs and camera clubs, amateur radio clubs and science festivals, the film club at the Otley Courthouse and all the walking, of course. There’s even a sailing club (not a Yorkshire joke – we’re a splash or two from the sea – though Weston Water is hardly Chichester Harbour). Not to mention the rugby clubs, folk festivals and allotment societies. Nor the town’s 17 pubs, the great markets, location spotting for Heartbeat fans and delicious shopping in the pretty Victorian lanes. Not to mention, either, two fine butchers on the market square: Weegmanns’ black pudding was a winner in this year’s Great Yorkshire Pork Pie, Sausage & Products Competition; while Middlemiss’s windows boast Yorkshire Supreme Sausages Champion 2006-2007, National Pie Champions 2008 and Yorkshire Supreme Pork Pie Champions 2004-2005. I like that “supreme”.The case against Precious little. Not for the shy and retiring. Otley folk aren’t backwards in coming forwards. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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