News Letter

We are starting a newsletter to keep you up to date with what is happening in the area, and in our mad village. Due to changes in the data protection laws we have to have your consent to receive these ( you can cancel at any time). We won’t share this with...

The beast from the east

Since we moved here we haven’t really had what we would call a proper winter….until this year. We had snow early on in the season and now the beast from the east has arrived.The snow is amazing it’s just like the stuff you get skiing, it’s...

Autumn Colours

We had a beautiful walk at The Yorkshire Arboretum over the weekend, which is part of Castle Howard, the colours were just fantastic There were loads of twitchers as apparently some rare Hawfinches had arrived, one of the bird guides we saw described these as...

Two year anniversary

In October the Long Barn has been open to guests for two years, we have been amazingly lucky with almost all the weekends booked since we opened and in the busier months we have been full all week as well. The line from the film Field of Dreams “If you build it...
Doorstep Delivery

Doorstep Delivery

Many of our friends thought we were cutting ourselves off by moving to a village, how wrong they were not only do we get milk delivered… collect our own eggs….. you try and get this type of doorstep service where you live.