Leyburn, Middleham & Tunstall

The Leyburn, Middleham and Tunstall area sits within Wensleydale in North Yorkshire and functions as a service and farming district. Leyburn is the market town at its heart; the Market Place holds a weekly market that draws farmers and traders, and the town supplies shops, pubs and basic services for surrounding settlements. The A684 and a network of lanes link farms, stone-built houses and chapel sites. Public footpaths weave through fields and river corridors, used year-round by walkers, farmers and those moving livestock between winter and summer grazing.

Middleham is centred on Middleham Castle, the ruined Norman stronghold associated with Richard III, and on a concentration of racehorse training stables with moorland gallops visible from the lanes. Horses on the gallops and the stone yards are a regular feature of town life. Tunstall is a small agricultural village within the same patchwork of fields and drystone walls, with farmsteads and lanes that meet bridleways. Local events follow the farming calendar and the equine economy, with agricultural shows and village gatherings marking seasonal patterns.