Thirsk & Sowerby
local businesses & organisations

Accommodation Hotels Guest Houses Bed & Breakfast Self Catering
Caravan & Camping sites Youth Hostels Backpackers

Shops Shopping Retail

Food & Drink Cafes Restaurants Take Aways

Services Cleaning Plumbing Electrician Glazier Builders

Outdoor Leisure Country Pursuits Sports Clubs

Estate Agents Property Services

Farming Agricultural Services Supplies

Community Organisations Charities Politics

Art Artisans Artists Bands Performer Furniture Makers 

Travel Tours Guides Car Hire Taxis Coach Hire

Attractions Days Out Entertainment

Thirsk Health Services  Motor Trade General Miscellaneous 

Personal Home Pages

North Yorkshire Links

North Yorkshire links for residents and visitors Yorkshire search, area guides and information

North Yorkshire Villages Online Village and Town websites

North Yorkshire Schools Online North Yorkshire school websites

UK and Miscellaneous Links Telephone Directories Newspapers Weather

Search Engines and Directories Multiple search engines all on one page

Foot and Mouth information archive from 2001

General UK  links

BBC Weather  |  Online Weather  |  Up to 14 Day Forecast  |  Weatherunderground  |  Flood Warnings

Station Master Journey Planner  plan your journey in the UK including local buses

UK Railway information Online journey planner

National Express Coaches Fares Timetables

English Heritage | Tourist Net UK  | British Tourist Authority |

AboutBritain.com - The premier online guide to Great Britain

Directgov UK Government Information Service "The place to turn to for the latest and widest range of (UK) public service information

Europa - The European Union On-Line "provides an access to information (press releases, legislation, fact-sheets ...) published by the European Union and its institutions: European Parliament, Council of the EU, European Commission, Court of Justice, Court of Auditors, Economic and Social Committee, Committee of the Regions, European Central Bank, European Investment Bank, Agencies and other Bodies. Web site in 11 languages: Spanish, Danish, German, Greek, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Finnish and Swedish"

Government website links from the Top to the Bottom |

NHS Direct health services online

UK proposed ID card A pub bore's guide

NO2ID Stop ID cards and the database state

Church-Search The Church of England's church search

National Farmers' Union  | Farmers' Markets  |  GB Poultry Register

Countryside Alliance | League Against Cruel Sports 
The Ramblers Association | Countryside Action Network  | Moorland Association   | Rural Rebels Anti Pro Rights Animals Hounds Dogs Hunting Shooting Fishing

News

British Media online Every national and regional newspaper published online.

Google News Search "presents information culled from approximately 4,000 news sources worldwide and automatically arranged to present the most relevant news first"

The Paperboy provides the web's biggest collection of quality searchable links to thousands of online newspapers from around the world.

BBC News  |  Children's BBC news  |  Ananova |

The (London) Times  | The Daily Telegraph  |  The Guardian  | The Independent | Financial Times  |  Mirror  | Sun  |  Scotsman  |  Belfast Telegraph  |  Western Mail  | Northern Echo  |  Yorkshire Post  |  Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough) | New Zealand Herald  |  Malaysian Star  | AllAfrica Global Media  |  New York Times | CNN US  |  CNN Europe  |  CNN Asia  |  Buenos Aires Herald  |  Moscow Times  |  Irish Times

Oneworld.net News " is a community of over 1000 organisations working for social justice."

Indymedia UK "is a network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues."

Directories

UK Telephone Directory Enquiries a free service covering the UK

Telephone Directories on the Web Directories around the World

UK Telephone Code Locator find out where that number is

UK Address & Postcode Finder

Postcodes  UK & EU no registration required

The Gazetteer of British Place Names  is a unique source of geographical information.

Multimap.com: Online Maps to Everywhere |  UK Street Maps  |  Ordinance Survey

Old Maps view historical maps simply by entering a place name, an address or a grid reference.

Political parties, interest groups, and other movements UK & Worldwide

Dictionary  |  Thesaurus  |  Language Translation  1  |  2  |  Currency Converter

Linda Sutherland's rather incredible source of links to info, well worth a look, particularly for librarians and researchers.

Miscellaneous

Magenta Telecomms Compare the prices of most UK Telecom operators

Savertz Unofficial Internet Public Domain Index  A massive collection of links to public domain books, software, poems etc.

Moving Here is the biggest database of digitised photographs, maps, objects, documents and audio items from 30 local and national archives, museums and libraries which record migration experiences of the last 200 years.

ATLAS - PHOTO. The geographical catalogue of photolandscapes.

Webwise The BBC's beginners guide to the internet