5 of the best hotels in North Yorkshire

Fancy a trip to the countryside? The Good Hotel Guide give us a run down of the five best hotels to stay at in North Yorkshire.
Good Hotel Guide
4 August 2016

If you’re planning a long weekend away, why not set your sights farther afield than the southeast and head out for North Yorkshire with its wide-open spaces?

It’s just four and a half hours by the A1 to Scotch Corner. Leave early, and you can be in Richmond, the ‘Gateway to the Dales’, by lunch.

The Good Hotel Guide recommends a wide choice of places to stay in the region. Here are five of our favourites.

The Traddock

Austwick

Traddock Hotel
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Dales walks start from the door of the Reynolds family’s smart-homey small hotel with views to the Forest of Bowland. A Georgian country house with a late-Victorian wing, it has characterful bedrooms supplied with real coffee, biscuits and fresh milk. Chef John Pratt sources local and wild ingredients for such dishes as line-caught seabass with chilli, cavolo nero, lime and coriander butter. Ask for a packed lunch. Take your dog.

Find it: B&B £99–£245. À la carte £32.50. 1-night bookings refused weekends in season.01524 251224, thetraddock.co.uk

Yorke Arms

Ramsgill-in-Nidderdale

Yorke Arms
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Bill and Frances Atkins run their mellow, creeper-clad, 18th-century coaching inn as a welcoming restaurant-with-rooms. Bedrooms and courtyard apartments have restful views of the surrounding Dales.

Frances Atkins, one of just six female Michelin-starred chefs in the UK, works with local, home-grown and foraged ingredients to create such dishes as Swaledale lamb, rowan, aubergine, tomato, sheep’s milk, Moorland herb infusion. Bill Atkins is the perfect host.

Find it: D,B&B per person, single £250, doubles £345-£430. Tasting menu £85, á la carte £65. 01423 755243, yorke-arms.co.uk

The Coach House at Middleton Lodge

Richmond

Coach House
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Approached by a tree-lined drive, James Allison’s restaurant-with-rooms occupies the converted outbuildings of a Georgian country house. Choose a garden room with its own small terrace, supplied with espresso machine, minibar, bottled water, a beamed Hayloft Room, or the double-height Tack Room, with log-burning stove. Styling is contemporary. In the restaurant, Gareth Rayner cooks char-grilled, 32-day dry-aged Galloway ribeye with herb butter, and such modern dishes as halibut, mussels, smoked oil, wild leeks. Children, vegans and veggies have separate menus.

Find it: B&B £165–£220, à la carte £40.01325 377 977, middletonlodge.co.uk

Judges

Yarm

Judges Hotel
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Circuit judges did themselves well in the 1980s when they stayed at Victorian Kirklevington Hall, set in 22 acres of gardens and woodland. Now the Downs family run it as a smart country-house hotel, its traditionally styled bedrooms supplied with fruit, biscuits, fresh milk, sherry – even teddy bears and goldfish. In the restaurant, dine on such dishes as pressed pork belly, roasted heritage carrots, hand-dived king scallop, boudin noir, shallot vinaigrette. Our readers’ verdict, ‘delicious’ – but judge for yourself.

Find it: B&B doubles £185-£215, à la carte £35. 01642 789000, judgeshotel.co.uk

The White Swan

Pickering

White Swan Hotel
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The Whitby-York stagecoach used to stop at this 16th-century inn in a market town dubbed the ‘gateway to the moors’. It is run by the Buchanan family with the best of Yorkshire hospitality. Bedrooms in the main building are traditional; those in the converted stables modern, airy and spacious. Chef Darren Clemmit cooks hearty, local, seasonal fare – say Levisham lamb rump, fondant potatoes, caper sauce, carrot and swede mash. Bike trails, bridleways and moorland are almost on the doorstep.

Find it: B&B £149–£189, à la carte £38. 1-night bookings sometimes refused. 01751 472288, white-swan.co.uk

This selection is from the Good Hotel Guide’s hotels in Yorkshire.

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