RURAL skills dating back hundreds of years have landed a young North Yorkshire craftsman a job.
Peter Hinchliffe, 20, has become the first modern apprentice in a North York Moors National Park scheme to have gained full-time employment.
He has been appointed a maintenance trainee at Sir Tom Cowie's Murton Grange Estate, near Helmsley.
He was one of eight apprentices on the scheme which was set up to teach young people aged 16 to 24 countryside skills such as drystone wall building, hedge-laying and footpath building and maintenance.
For the past year Peter, of Robin Hood's Bay, has been working in the park as part of his training.
He will be helping to rebuild some of the 30km of walls on the 1,450-acre estate at Hawnby, some of which date back more than 200 years
The Murton Grange Estate was bought seven years ago by Sir Tom, who founded a successful chain of car dealerships and lives in County Durham.
He is keen to maintain the traditional features of the countryside.
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