Pubs, Shopping, Eating and Local Towns
Petrol stations
The nearest are in Pateley Bridge, Threshfield (just outside Grassington) and Skipton.
Taxi service
Gordon who lives in the Close next to the Mill Cottages runs a taxi service.
Local pubs
The nearest pubs are in Appletreewick, the New Inn and the Craven Arms. Walkable to! The Craven food is excellent. A little further on in Burnsall is the Red Lion. The food here is terrific but if you particularly want to eat in the dining room you may have to book. The Michelin starred Angel at Hetton has an excellent wine cellar and is known for its fish menus. You need to book.
Large supermarkets
Tesco’s and Morrison’s in Skipton, Waitrose in Otley, Booths (Yorkshire’s equivalent of Waitrose) in Ilkley
If you’re stuck for a pint of milk in summer you can walk over the beck and across the fields to the caravan site shop. Good for sweets and ice creams too and just down the lane is a small cafe specialising in delicious brownies, all sorts imaginable.
But the nearest shopping facilities are in Pateley Bridge, Grassington and Skipton. Each one is different in character and has its own highlights.
Pateley Bridge
A small town in Nidderdale with a good car park by the river. It’s probably the best place to visit for a quick replenishment of the food cupboard with a medium size Spa supermarket. There is a petrol station as you drive into the town and a children’s playground. Of particular note:
An excellent Yorkshire butchers. Beef and lamb, locally sourced is first rate. Try their pork pies. They’re yummy. Often has very reasonably priced game in the shooting season.
A good local baker. Their Yorkshire curd tarts and cakes are tasty but the bread does sellout quickly each day.
Two antique shops. The one nearest to the car park sells pictures and beautiful antique wine glasses.
The oldest sweet shop in Britain. Every sort of sweet imaginable!
On the drive over it’s worth visiting just outside Greenhow the industrially sized restored limestone kiln and the sculpture overlooking the Hanson quarry.
Grassington
Much more traditionally pretty than Pateley Bridge so can be quite touristy in season and it’s often impossible to park in the main square. Better to park in the Yorkshire Dales National Park car park just outside. There is a good National Park Information Centre here with loads of information about walks in the Dales and relevant Ordinance Survey maps.
Just before the entrance to the main square is a good sweet shop and newsagent, and a delicatessen where you can also order good home cooked food (if you’re feeling weary). In the main square there is a Spar, quite a few pubs and shops,a small museum about local past life and a fish and chip shop. Up the hill from the main square is a pottery and a shop making excellent oak furniture, amongst other shops.
Close to Grassington, across the bridge and up the hill is the petrol station in Threshfield. There’s an excellent local butcher in the supermarket here.
Kilnsey
There’s a trout farm here and a shop and cafe that sells fresh trout and other products made from their fish. You can hire a rod and catch your own if you fancy it and there’s a children’s pond so they can catch fish too, but be warned! What you catch you must buy and you have to kill the fish yourself! But they gut it!
The ladies slipper orchid, the rarest flower in Britain and very exotic too, has been cloned by Kew from one of the last surviving plants in Grassington wood and they’ve planted a number of these plants successfully in a field at Kilnsey. When they bloom in June you can pay Kilnsey to see them. In the same field you will see other native orchids too and the birds eye primrose, one of the Dales specialities.
Skipton
Its a large, busy bustling town, with a castle (worth a visit), canals (trips by barge available) and a market down the high street on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. The market sells all sorts of produce and other sundry items. Well worth an explore. An excellent Indian restaurant but you need to book.
There’s also an indoor antique market near Tesco’s and on the bridge over the canal an excellent fish and chips shop which in the past has been voted the best in Yorkshire!
The nearest are in Pateley Bridge, Threshfield (just outside Grassington) and Skipton.
Taxi service
Gordon who lives in the Close next to the Mill Cottages runs a taxi service.
Local pubs
The nearest pubs are in Appletreewick, the New Inn and the Craven Arms. Walkable to! The Craven food is excellent. A little further on in Burnsall is the Red Lion. The food here is terrific but if you particularly want to eat in the dining room you may have to book. The Michelin starred Angel at Hetton has an excellent wine cellar and is known for its fish menus. You need to book.
Large supermarkets
Tesco’s and Morrison’s in Skipton, Waitrose in Otley, Booths (Yorkshire’s equivalent of Waitrose) in Ilkley
If you’re stuck for a pint of milk in summer you can walk over the beck and across the fields to the caravan site shop. Good for sweets and ice creams too and just down the lane is a small cafe specialising in delicious brownies, all sorts imaginable.
But the nearest shopping facilities are in Pateley Bridge, Grassington and Skipton. Each one is different in character and has its own highlights.
Pateley Bridge
A small town in Nidderdale with a good car park by the river. It’s probably the best place to visit for a quick replenishment of the food cupboard with a medium size Spa supermarket. There is a petrol station as you drive into the town and a children’s playground. Of particular note:
An excellent Yorkshire butchers. Beef and lamb, locally sourced is first rate. Try their pork pies. They’re yummy. Often has very reasonably priced game in the shooting season.
A good local baker. Their Yorkshire curd tarts and cakes are tasty but the bread does sellout quickly each day.
Two antique shops. The one nearest to the car park sells pictures and beautiful antique wine glasses.
The oldest sweet shop in Britain. Every sort of sweet imaginable!
On the drive over it’s worth visiting just outside Greenhow the industrially sized restored limestone kiln and the sculpture overlooking the Hanson quarry.
Grassington
Much more traditionally pretty than Pateley Bridge so can be quite touristy in season and it’s often impossible to park in the main square. Better to park in the Yorkshire Dales National Park car park just outside. There is a good National Park Information Centre here with loads of information about walks in the Dales and relevant Ordinance Survey maps.
Just before the entrance to the main square is a good sweet shop and newsagent, and a delicatessen where you can also order good home cooked food (if you’re feeling weary). In the main square there is a Spar, quite a few pubs and shops,a small museum about local past life and a fish and chip shop. Up the hill from the main square is a pottery and a shop making excellent oak furniture, amongst other shops.
Close to Grassington, across the bridge and up the hill is the petrol station in Threshfield. There’s an excellent local butcher in the supermarket here.
Kilnsey
There’s a trout farm here and a shop and cafe that sells fresh trout and other products made from their fish. You can hire a rod and catch your own if you fancy it and there’s a children’s pond so they can catch fish too, but be warned! What you catch you must buy and you have to kill the fish yourself! But they gut it!
The ladies slipper orchid, the rarest flower in Britain and very exotic too, has been cloned by Kew from one of the last surviving plants in Grassington wood and they’ve planted a number of these plants successfully in a field at Kilnsey. When they bloom in June you can pay Kilnsey to see them. In the same field you will see other native orchids too and the birds eye primrose, one of the Dales specialities.
Skipton
Its a large, busy bustling town, with a castle (worth a visit), canals (trips by barge available) and a market down the high street on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. The market sells all sorts of produce and other sundry items. Well worth an explore. An excellent Indian restaurant but you need to book.
There’s also an indoor antique market near Tesco’s and on the bridge over the canal an excellent fish and chips shop which in the past has been voted the best in Yorkshire!
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