In spring, thousands of daffodils illuminate the fields and riverbanks at Farndale, in a corner of North Yorkshire rich in folklore and history

D Mark Thompson appeared in Yorkshire Life as a young artist. In our anniversary year, we catch up with him as his new book is released

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Think of ancient monuments in North Yorkshire, and the vast Thornborough Henges will probably come to mind first, maybe followed by the Devil’s Arrows a little further away at Boroughbridge. Nearby, i

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ny potential reader of A Glastonbury Romance is likely to be put off initially by its sheer size: this brick of a book runs to more than 1,100 pages, containing almost half a million words. Some autho