Take five...Quirky Yorkshire cafes

Nothing is nicer than a home-made treat after a long walk. Here we suggest five cafes which are a little more unusual.
The Falling Foss Tea gardenThe Falling Foss Tea garden
The Falling Foss Tea garden

Falling Foss Tea Gardens: Set in a woodland glade by a cascading waterfall, the cafe serves home-made cakes and does a great cream tea. Children have room to build dens, play in the fairy dell playground, paddle in the beck, or play pooh sticks on the footbridge (pooh sticks provided). fallingfossteagarden.co.uk

Dale Head Farm Tea Garden: Indulge in a ‘Moggy’ or a slice of real Yorkshire Courting Cake at the ‘oasis on the moors’. Part of a working farm, it sits above Rosedale Abbey. The baker is Maggie Barraclough, who specialises in traditional Yorkshire recipes made using local ingredients. daleheadfarmteagarden.co.uk

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Seadrift Cafe: The only place you can taste the Staithes Coble. A traditional spiced apricot, apple, cinnamon and walnut cake named after the boats once used by local fishermen. The Seadrift Cafe coble is made to a time-honoured, and secret, family recipe. And sea trips in a real fishing coble are also availble at Staithes.

Dale Head tea shopDale Head tea shop
Dale Head tea shop

Botham’s of Whitby: The family-run craft bakery was founded in 1865 and is still serving their original recipes – parkin and brack, ginger and plum breads. These traditional cakes and puds can still be found on shop shelves across the UK largely thanks to the hard work of the staff at Botham’s. Botham.co.uk

Vinehouse Cafe: The lovingly-restored kitchen gardens, apiaries and orchards of Helmsley Walled Garden provide the ingredients for the cafe’s celebrated home-made cakes. Visitors can sample native, heritage and unusual species in sweet treats, including apples, with 59 varieties. Helmsleywalledgarden.org.uk

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