Beverley Town Trail is becoming a reality.

The Trail will comprise thirty nine linked artworks placed throughout Beverley town. Sculptures will feature many of Beverley’s Medieval Guilds and Trades. With the Trail brochure, it will help to show what people were like, and doing, in Beverley in the Middle Ages, when they laid the foundations of the town we see today.

Where possible the artworks have been developed using images from Beverley’s Medieval heritage and have been sited in locations linked to the various trades.

School children in Beverley and the surrounding villages, and the local community, have been widely involved in producing ideas related to the Trail. When finished, it can either be walked in one go, or as four separate smaller trails.

The Trail has been funded by private sponsors, the Heritage Lottery Fund, East Riding of Yorkshire Council, Beverley Town Council, and ‘Visit Hull and East Yorkshire’ (VHEY)

Created by a community based Committee, chaired by Tom Martin, planning for the Trail started just after the Millennium. Initial ideas were developed, leading to full public consultation, during which the ideas and route were refined. Funding was finalised in 2007, production of sculptures started in 2008 and the Trail will be fully installed by Easter 2010.