A book which chronicles a thousand years of a North Yorkshire market town's history goes on sale next week.

The Richmond Civic Society has worked long and hard compiling a single reference book which summarises the town's heritage.

The Norman castle, which dominates the banks of the River Swale, is perhaps the town's best-known landmark.

However, Richmond - A Review of the Millennium, goes back to an era before William the Conqueror's reign, taking readers on a journey from the Stone Age through to the early 20th Century.

Edited by Jane Hatcher and Graham Merlane, the book goes on sale to the public on Wednesday.