The West Barn

We first blogged about the West Barn in 2020, describing it as the “best kept secret” of the Long Barn. We believe it was built before the Long Barn. If you look up at the beams you can see that some are reclaimed beams from even older buildings. If you book the Long...

What’s on in June

We thought we’d do a round up of what’s on in the remainder of June in the North York Moors. At the moment the weather is spectacular, and fingers crossed with be beautiful for some time to come. So this blog is being written in the garden, soaking up the rays. We...

D Day – 10 years on

6 June 2013 marks a special date for us. It’s the day that we packed up all our worldly goods. The day we headed over to Appleton Le Moors and moved into Town End Farm. After 20 years living in Harrogate, and 30+ years working in the corporate world, it was the start...

Shop Local

We believe in supporting local business and try to make it as easy as possible for guests to ‘shop local’ wherever possible. We appreciate that many guests will choose to organise one big supermarket shop when staying at the Long Barn. However, there are some great...

BBQ Season

As you can imagine, the Long Barn BBQ gets a lot of use. It’s set up ready to go all year round; we’ve had guests using it in February. When renovating the barn, we wanted to have a space outside that was easy to cater in. We were inspired by the wonderful outside...