A Wolds Walk this time, on Thursday 30 July – a circular walk west from Burdale, through Thixendale, north and east along the Wolds Way until it reaches a minor road back to Burdale. It is a great walk with some highly significant features. The road to Thixendale passes where David Hockney painted his famous three trees series. Thixendale is a beautiful village with a lovely Victorian Sykes church (St Mary) and some other worthy buildings. The Wolds Way path from Thixendale takes you onto the high Wold, with great views, and then back to Burdale. On the way down you can see the remains of the Malton-Driffield railway track. The next station south after Burdale was Fimber, which used to be the station for Sledmere and was used by church-builder Sir Tatton Sykes on his travels, and his son, Sir Mark Sykes, “The Man Who Created the Middle East”.