A CURATE who looked after a town in North Yorkshire when it was without a vicar for 20 months is leaving for pastures new.
The Reverend Liz Kitching has served in the parish of Northallerton with Romanby and Kirby Sigston for four years.
She was put in charge when Canon Ian Fox left in April 2003.
The new vicar, the Reverend Howard Smith, was instituted in November.
Ms Kitchen is leaving to take up a role as priest-in-charge at Cloughton and Burniston with Ravenscar and Staintondale, near Scarborough.
The previous incumbent was best-selling author Graham Taylor, who has had to retire through ill health. Ms Kitchen said: "It is a very different parish to Northallerton and it will be a quite different type of ministry that we fulfil.
"People were very gracious and supportive when we were without a vicar and I will miss them."
Her final service will be at All Saints Church, Northallerton, at 10.30am on May 22.
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