Swinton Park Near Ripon, Yorkshire

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Opening Times

Breakfast: 7.30am-10am daily
Lunch: 12.30pm-2pm (every day except Monday)
Dinner: 7pm-9.30pm daily*
Afternoon Tea: 3pm- 6pm Mon- Sat, 4pm-6pm Sundays

*Samuels is closed for dinner on Mondays and Tuesdays, The Terrace restaurant is  open 7 days per week

Parking Facilities

Private parking available

Electric car charging: 8 chargers at a cost of 50p per Kwh and the Brand Type is Power EV. (Price correct 20/10/2022)

Disabled Access

Ramp, ground floor disabled toilet, additional bedroom equipment, deaf and alarm, four bedrooms with additional hand rails and access  Lift in the main building, the coach house does not have a lift but does have a selction of ground floor rooms.  The coach house is a separate building to the main castle.

Child Policy

All 30 bedrooms have room for a cot, with space for a z-bed or another cot in most rooms, and all four suites have sofa-beds. Cots are charged at £40 per night, bed and breakfast for children sharing rooms with an adult are £50 per child, per night.

Children aged 8 and over are welcome to eat from the restaurant menu in Samuel's. There is also a children's menu, which can be served as room service or in one of the ground floor public rooms. 

With a playroom full of toys including an XBox (which converts into a private cinema) and a boot room full of kites, bikes and other outdoor games, there is no shortage of entertainment. There is also an outdoor play area and hours of walking in the parkland. Children can use the pool from 9:30am – 10am and 4:30pm – 5:30pm, with adult supervision.
 

The grounds

Swinton Estate is one of the largest estates in England, situated in North Yorkshire and stretching from the River Ure in Wensleydale up onto the moorland Dales.

Access to the countryside on the Estate comprises an extensive network of approximately 63 miles of public footpaths and bridle paths (please see an OS map for detailed routes), with car parking available at Nutwith Woods, Druid's Temple, Gollinglith Foot, Leighton Reservoir, Roomer Common, Ellington Firth and Masham Town Square.

History of the hotel

Owned by the Cunliffe-Lister family since the 1880s, and the ancestral seat of the Earl of Swinton, guests at the hotel enjoy a traditional, yet informal stately home experience.

Rooms are furnished with antiques and family portraits, with the warmth and grandeur of a traditional English country house.

Dogs Policy

With some rooms being dog friendly, the charge of £30 per dog, per night would apply.  They are welcome in all public areas where food is not served.

Eco-friendly

Green Tourism Gold Award

Installed a wood-chip boiler, which is used to provide all heating and hot water requirements. This avoids the use of oil and, as it uses a renewable energy source, it is a carbon neutral operation.  All residual waste is used for a "waste to energy" scheme which means it is treated at the Thirsk plant and then shipped to Rotterdam where it is incinerated to create hot water for local manufacturing plants and electricity that is fed into the grid.