Yarm

* Grid reference: NZ421124^** Latitude and longitude: (54.50, −1.35)
* Road access: A67 from north and south, B1264 from west, A1044 from east.
* Rail access: Yarm Station
* Nearest airport: Durham Tees Valley Airport

Events

Many events are held in the town each year such as a fair and a 5 km fun run.

Fair

A fair is held on the Tuesday evening to Saturday night of the third week in October in the High Street. It was once a commercial fair that traded in cheese and livestock, but has become a fun fair, although travellers still attend the fair, and ride horses up and down the street on the Saturday.The travellers have to wait outside the town until 6:00PM on the Tuesday, at which point they are allowed to cross the bridge over the River Tees into the town.

Fun Run

Yarm has an annual fun run. The 5KM run starts at Conyers School, and ends on Snaiths Field.

Charities Fair

Yarm and district Lions club run a charities fair on the high street each year. This mostly takes a market like approach.

Lighting of the Christmas tree

A ceromony takes place each advent to light up the town's Christmas tree. Carols are sung, and the high street is temporarily closed for the event.

Schools

Yarm has five schools. Three state primary, and one state secondary, as well as the private Yarm School.

State

There are three primary schools (Levendale, Yarm, and Layfield) in the town and Conyers secondary school.

Fee Paying

The town is home to Yarm School, the senior school being situated at the Friarage and the Preparatory School, Pre-Prep and Nursery at the old Yarm Grammar School (the school was formed after the closure of the grammar school).

The school has plans to re-locate within the next decade to a site near to their playing fields on Green Lane, south of the town. This is subject to planning permission being granted for the sale of the listed Friarage site for development.

People

People associated with the town include John Wesley, founder of Methodism, Tom Brown, hero in the Battle of Dettingen.

Twinned towns

Yarm is twinned with two other European towns:
*Schwalbach in Germany
*Vernouillet in France

On 2 July 2005, two trees were planted to the north of the town hall to mark the 20th anniversary of the twinning between Yarm and the two towns. The trees were marked with plaques.

External links

*Yarm and District Photos
*Digital Yarm (Virtual Tour)

References

*Yarm and Eaglescliffe History