Welcome to Yarm - 60 km

On our first stretch we have made it to the historic market town of Yarm, built in a meander of the River Tees and on the boarder of Durham and North Yorkshire.

Yarm was first mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, and was originally a chapelry in the Kirklevington parish in the North Riding of Yorkshire; it later became a parish in its own right.

Dominican Friars settled in Yarm about 1286, and maintained a Friary and a Hospital in the town, until 1583. Their memory is preserved in the names of Friarage and Spital Bank.