Crackpot Cottage Glamping Yorkshire Dales
In Swaledale adjacent to the Coast To Coast, The Pennine Way, The Swale Trail and The Herriot Way Crackpot Cottage is the ideal place to experience the beautiful Yorkshire Dales.
There is plenty to do, walk and cycle in Swaledale but if you fancy going a little further afield we are only 30/40 minutes away from very renowned sites in Wensleydale such as Castle Bolton, Penhill, Aysgarth Falls, Wensleydale Creamery, Hawes, Hardraw Force and Jervaulx Abbey.
We are a family-run smallholding. We grow our own fruit and vegetables and our hens provide us with fresh eggs daily.
We have two glamping venues in our grounds: the Log Cabin and the Byre (Barn). Each has a private garden area with firepit, composting toilet, cold showers and fantastic views of the moors and valley.
The cabin has no electricity or WIFI. We provide 4 battery operated lanterns.
The Byre has a central light but no sockets and no WIFI. We provide 2 battery operated lanterns.
Both the Cabin and the Byre feature:
- Double bed and bedside tables
- Bioethanol stove
- Table and chairs
- Personal composting toilet and showers
- Bedding, crockery and cutlery
- Drinking water
We can also offer if requested, a comprehensive choice of suppers, appetisers and breakfast which we serve at your venue.
For walkers and cyclists and all of our guests we are able to provide extras services such as clothes drying, packed lunches, safe indoor bike storage, e-bike battery charging and pick up/drop off.
LOCAL AREA
Swaledale is one of the most northerly of the dales and it has perhaps the wildest, most unspoilt scenery in the National Park. Many of the villages and tiny hamlets – such as Gunnerside (from ‘Gunnar’s saetr’) – still carry the names given to them by Viking farmers who settled here over a thousand years ago.
The heart of Swaledale is the River Swale, the fastest rising rivers in England. It flows through traditional hay meadows bright with wild flowers in the summer surrounded by miles of drystone walls and dotted with carefully preserved stone field barns. This pattern of field walls, barns and meadows is a special feature of Swaledale.
The bustling village of Reeth, with its arts and craft shops, pubs and cafés, is a focal point. There are also other lovely villages further up the dale such as Muker – which has its annual agricultural show in September – Gunnerside and Keld. All offer easy access to unspoilt landscapes, and providing walkers and cyclists with the perfect holiday escape. At the western end of Swaledale, Tan Hill boasts of being the highest pub in England. There are countless other pubs and cafés dotted all along the valley.
PRICES
Log Cabin from £80 per night
Byre from £80 per night
Sorry No Pets
Adults only