There's something about Yorkshire that just makes a cup of tea taste better. Maybe it's the drama of the Dales rolling out in front of you, the salt air coming off the coast, or the simple pleasure of wrapping your hands around a flask at the top of a moorland walk and breathing it all in. On National Tea Day (21st April), there's no better place to celebrate Britain's favourite brew than in the county that made it famous.
Galatea, Whitby Lighthouse
From proper afternoon teas in tearooms brimming with character, to a thermos and a view that goes on forever, Yorkshire does tea like nowhere else. And with a fabulous collection of cosy hideaways nestled across the Dales, the Moors and the coast, Yorkshire Hideaways has the perfect base for every kind of tea lover.
🛏️Sleeps 5
🫖 Short breaks from £715
Waking up in a lighthouse cottage with the sea stretching out in front of you is reason enough to visit, but throw in clifftop walks with a flask and afternoon tea in one of Whitby's harbour tearooms and you have a National Tea Day worth remembering.
🛏️Sleeps 4
🫖 Short breaks from £564
Beautifully furnished and steeped in Victorian elegance, this Harrogate apartment sits just a short stroll from the iconic Bettys Tea Rooms, the spiritual home of Yorkshire Tea since 1919. After tea, the Turkish Baths, Valley Gardens and the Yorkshire Dales are all on the doorstep.
🛏️Sleeps 6.
🫖 Short breaks from £821
This postcard-pretty cottage, with its wood burning stove and views over the church, is the kind of place you come back to with mud on your boots and a thermos that needs refilling after a long day on the North York Moors! Simple pleasures, done properly.
California Cottage Middleton in Teesdale
🛏️Sleeps 2.
🫖 Short breaks from £408
Fill a thermos and head straight out onto the Teesdale Way, or let one of the town's tearooms do the honours. Either way, the tea's good and the views are better.
🛏️Sleeps 7
🫖 Short breaks from £1340
They don't do things by halves in Yorkshire - where else can you spend the afternoon drifting along a canal with a scone in one hand and a cup of tea in the other, before heading back to a wood fired hot tub under the stars?! Just ten minutes from Skipton, the Poverty Hill barn is that place.
🛏️Sleeps 2.
🫖 Short breaks from £333
Close enough to York to take afternoon tea aboard a restored 1907 dining carriage at the National Railway Museum, yet tucked into quiet village life with a wood burning stove and a proper pot of tea waiting at home!
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