Hartley Hare Barn

30/06/2025

Foodie heaven… so many of the recommendations on the doorstep of Hartley Hare Barn. Come and stay and tick the venues off your list of Must Visit 🍽️🤩

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17/06/2025

Come and relax and restore in our sumptuous bathroom at Hartley Hare Barn. Bath House luxurious toiletries including bath soak and hair care, fluffy warm towels on the heated towel rail, underfloor heating for cosy toes, an illuminated mirror and electric toothbrush charger with shaver socket... what more could you need! Come and see for yourself

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19/05/2025

Wonderful Settle… so much to see, admire and enjoy 💚

A folly that's not a folly, a naked man whose name we don't know: Settle is full of curiosities and special features. How many of these have you visited?
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* You may have noticed The Folly Museum and Coffee House, Settle but have you been inside? It's a wonderful building, carefully restored and home to a museum and cafe serving excellent cake. Settle Folly is intriguingly named but isn't really a folly. It's a very striking building built in 1679 by a lawyer called Richard Preston. After his death it was left empty for a when and was then known as a folly, something seemingly without a real purpose.

It's incredible to think of some of the subsequent uses for the Folly - it's certainly been versatile! In past years it's been a bakery, warehouse, furniture shop, bank, salvage business and even a fish and chip shop.

* Castleberg towers above Settle and has its own story to tell.. The views are good too!

* The Grade I and II listed buildings around the Market Place. Look for plaques commemorating Elgar's stay in Settle; Benjamin Waugh, founder of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children; and the wonderfully named Goad & Butchers solicitors

* Settle Victoria Hall- The World's Oldest Music Hall Victoria Hall, a Grade II listed original Victorian Music Hall - go to a performance and enjoy the creatively decorated loos!

* Settle Station, famous thanks to the Settle Carlisle Railway CRP signal box & water tower

* Gallery on the Green, one of the world’s smallest galleries - in a former telephone kiosk

* Ye Olde Naked Man Café - one of England's most photographed cafés

* Victoria Cave where evidence of prehistoric hunters was found - take care when visiting

* Settle Hydro - a reverse Archimedean screw system generating electricity for the community

If you Visit Settle, you're also within easy distance of these other treasures:

* Hoffman Kiln
* Ribblehead Viaduct Visitor Centre
* Courtyard Dairy, award-winning specialist cheesemongers

Which other places would you recommend to a Settle visitor? Best places to stay?

Market place photo: Stephen Garnett

26/08/2024

13/08/2024

Do you prefer a squeeze or a kissing gate? Anyone who enjoys walking in the Yorkshire Dales will be familiar with the many different methods landowners use to enable walkers to use footpaths without letting out their livestock.

Miles and miles of dry stone walls criss cross the landscape, enclosing fields where sheep and cows graze. You'll spot some breaks or 'squeezes' in stone walls, created by vertical stones, which you can just about manage to squeeze through. You'll also find layered steps creating out of stone slabs walking over a dry stone wall.

I particularly love the many make-shift gates that were clearly made many years ago, often 'it'll do for now' creations, bound together with baler twine, that have somehow managed to hang on for years and years.

Sometimes there are more sophisticated solutions, with proper springs or weighted rocks to help the gate to close, but mostly they're very simple affairs.

Kissing gates dispense with the need for a 'please close the gate' sign and reduce the chances of an errant tup finding the ewes. They're easy for humans to use but tricky for livestock to figure out. The gate swings so that they're just kissing room to pass. There are many variations of this - there's even a double one along the riverside walk at Burnsall.

There are countless wooden stiles abound, often quite rickety and some with little dog doors at the bottom. Whatever the format, stiles, gates and wall squeezes abound, often beautiful in their simplicity and usefulness.

Photos of your favourites?

Image by Andrew Locking

13/08/2024

Any thrill seekers visiting Hartley Hare Barn may love this…

The Gaping Gill Winch Meet, operated by Craven Pothole Club is on now until Friday. If you've ever been down you will know what an amazing experience this is. Find out more about the event, here 👇

https://www.cravenpotholeclub.org/index.php/about-gaping-gill/visit-gaping-gill

📸 Wendy McDonnell |

01/08/2024

Watching the sunset at Hartley Hare Barn… what a beautiful closure of Yorkshire Day.

15/07/2024

For the historian guests… this tour may be of interest… Settle is so fascinating… come and see for yourself 😊

03/06/2024

A little treat and just up the road!

03/06/2024

This door was originally an external door on the barn - that doorway now being a window. Repurposing the door has added real character to the centre of the barn. Behind the door step up into the Sitting Room. From the Sitting Room step down into the hall where you can just see an original beam forming the newel post of the staircase and the Jacobs ladder halfway up the stairs… Hartley Hare Barn a historic Grade II listed barn with so many original features… come and see them…

07/05/2024

A visit is a must when at HHB

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Introducing ‘Fizz n Chips’ fresh haddock, crispy batter, beef fat chips, crushed peas and proper tartare sauce - for 2, with a bottle of Prosecco for only £45!

Every weekday lunch and evening, starts today!

24/03/2024

Just another Coffee Shop to try and maybe combine with a wonderful walk at The Ribblehead Viaduct 😁

Spring has sprung 🥳🌻 This can only mean one thing.....
Ribblehead Coffee Shop and Visitors Centre will be opening on Monday 25th March.
We are open 7 days a week 10- 4 right through till ( dare I say) Christmas.
We look forward to seeing all our wonderful customers and amazing volunteers.
Please tag us in your visits.