Old Dairy

Yorkshire Dales National Park


Guests will feel right at home in this 200-year-old village house in the heart of the Dales, where the owners have converted two rooms into comfortable, modern guest bedrooms with lovely views across the dale. There's cake in the afternoons, and the owners are a fount of knowledge on local walking, biking, stargazing and astrophotography. It's near Reeth, 15 miles west of Richmond.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Yorkshire Dales National Park attractions

1. Hardraw Force

8.29 MILES

About 1.5 miles north of Hawes is 30m-high Hardraw Force, the highest unbroken waterfall in England, but by international standards not that impressive …

2. Sheepdog Demonstrations

8.41 MILES

On Thursdays from May to October, a local farmer gives demonstrations of working sheepdogs, held in a field 800m north of Hawes on the minor road towards…

3. Dales Countryside Museum

8.55 MILES

Sharing a building with the national park centre, the Dales Countryside Museum is a beautifully presented social history of the area that explains the…

4. Wensleydale Creamery

8.91 MILES

Wensleydale Creamery is devoted to the production of a crumbly white cheese that's the favourite of animation characters Wallace and Gromit. You can visit…

5. Forbidden Corner

9.37 MILES

There can surely be no other place like this in the world: a modern walled garden furnished with Victorian-style follies, some veering into gothic horror,…

6. Richmond Castle

11.7 MILES

The impressive heap that is Richmond Castle, founded in 1070, has had many uses through the years, including a stint as a prison for conscientious…

7. Georgian Theatre Royal

11.7 MILES

Built in 1788, this is the most complete Georgian playhouse in Britain. It closed in 1848 and was used as an auction house into the early 20th century,…

8. Green Howards Museum

11.71 MILES

Military buffs will enjoy the three floors of this museum, which pays tribute to Richmond's famous Yorkshire infantry regiment, formed in 1688. The medal…