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Welcome toYorkshire Sounds

Here you will find music, images, reminiscences, stories and poetry from villages in North Yorkshire. We have made a wide variety of recordings in Terrington, Rosedale and the villages around the ruins of Byland Abbey and a CD has been produced for each area.

On the 'recordings' page you will find many samples to listen to:

The Songs range from simple primary school pieces to more complex arrangements of village choirs .

The Dialect page features local history; reminiscences of farming, mining and village life in the last century; and a few reflections on Yorkshire today.

Stories and poems are composed pieces about the area.

Soundscapes are recordings of the sounds which surround us, such as owls, the dawn chorus, lawn mowers and strimmers.

Music features tunes played by three ceilidh bands.

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CDs available to purchase

Sounds of Rosedale
Rosedale CD cover

Sounds Around Byland
Byland CD cover

 

Sounds of Terrington
Terrington CD cover

 

 

 

 

 

 

All CDs are priced at £8.00

The tracks on each CD are listed on the CD pages of the website.

If you are interested in any of the recordings that are not on a CD then please contact us for more information.

Copies of all the material are also being placed in the county archive in Northallerton.

As funding becomes available there will be another CD dealing with the industrial archeology and geology of Rosedale.

Any community interested in recording a sound picture of their area is welcome to contact us

Yorkshire Sounds
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