Cobblers!

Richmond Market Place is supposedly the largest cobbled area in England. 

The down-side, apart from the occasional twisted ankle and ruined bicycle wheel, is that all those cobbles need looking after. So, several times a year, our Council sets up camp in the Market Place, digs up an acre or two of cobbles, and laboriously puts them all back again. It's necessary work, but tedious and disruptive. And pity those poor people who spend several weeks on their knees, tapping the stones back, one by one. Who'd be a cobbler, eh?

Anyway - it's all about to happen once more. This time, the disruption will take place from 1 September for seven whole weeks... This is bound to make parking in the Market Place that bit more difficult; try Nun's Close car-park instead? Also, the bus stops in the Market Place will probably move to their fall-back location, beside the Friary Gardens, opposite the Ralph Fitz Randal pub (Wetherspoons), postcode DL10 4UJ. 

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