Hog Roast Skipton
Market towns are great. Really. The people in market towns know their stuff and livestock is one of their special subjects. When you grow up in an area where food and livestock play such a key role in the local economy, being clued up in such matters is pretty much essential.
Skipton is just such a town, in fact it’s pretty much the perfect example of a North Yorkshire market town. Skipton is a market town with affair bit of history behind it. Skipton Castle is a superb slice of medieval history, built by a Norman baron over nine hundred years ago. This medieval castle must have been home to many grand events in its long history and it is almost certain that a significant number of these would have been graced with the presence of a hog roast. A hog roast Skipton castle event must have been a grand affair. A castle seems like the perfect setting to enjoy such a meal, after all hog roast was a meal for the wealthier and mightier characters of the Skipton area.