Flower and Produce Show 2025

The Show The summer flower and produce show has been a staple part of British village life since the 18th Century. We’re not sure how long our own local show has been running, but we’ve entered every year since moving to Appleton Le Moors. The 2025 Flower and Produce...

Our small business

A midlife crisis It’s 12 years since what we like to call, our midlife crisis and our escape to the North York Moors. We’re Ian and Jackie, and we decided to swap corporate life for the fresh air and big skies of the North York Moors. We poured every bit of our...

Making Marmalade

Apparently, marmalade is the new “thing” to make as part of lockdown 3.0, succeeding sourdough and the infamous banana bread. We’ve been making marmalade every year since we opened the Long Barn. Jackie loves marmalade whilst it’s Ian’s nemesis. So, this annual task...

The Moors Inn

The Moors Inn is our local pub and is less than 5 minutes’ walk from the Long Barn. When we bought Town End Farm, being in a village location which had a pub was a definite plus. Every other place we’d looked at was far more remote with any pub or restaurant a good...

Village Life

When we escaped to the country and bought Town End Farm, we knew very little about Appleton le Moors other than how beautiful it looked, and that it had a pub, two churches and a village hall. Plus, an odd little green and white building called the Reading Room. We...