ABOUT US
Welcome to Askrigg Cottage Holidays and our beautiful self catering holiday cottages in the glorious Yorkshire Dales National Park.
We started letting out Minnie’s Cottage to friends and family in the mid 1990’s on an informal basis, when it was our second home. We knew that we eventually wanted to live in the Yorkshire Dales, so we jumped at the chance to buy Rook’s Cottage when it came up for sale in 1999, with the intention that this would eventually be our home in Askrigg. We then started letting Rook’s as a holiday cottage, with our first guests in October 1999.
Shortly after we decided that we didn’t want to wait any longer to live in the Dales, so we moved up here to live in July 2000, but managed to keep Rook’s as a holiday cottage, as it was, and still is, so popular, being so full of character and in the centre of Askrigg. We sold Rooks in 2006 to Claire and Tony McCann, who are from Newcastle , and like us, lovers of the Dales and regular visitors with family and friends living in the area, and we continue to manage this cottage for them.
In Autumn 2005 we bought School Cottage in Newbiggin in Bishopdale, one of the tributary valleys off Wensleydale, and which as its name suggests has in the past been the village school.
When we sold Rooks, we were lucky to be offered the chance to buy Urlay Nook, also in Askrigg, and we set this up as our first five star holiday cottage, which we very much enjoyed, building on our past experience.
In 2002 we were asked by our friends Peter and Shirley Coates to take on their holiday cottage, Greystones, in Thwaite in Swaledale, which we did, shortly followed by Shirley’s father’s cottage, Stockdale, also in Thwaite. Both of these cottages have been in the family for generations, and have a fabulous setting in the village of Thwaite but with the hay meadows behind the cottages that are so full of flowers in Spring and Summer, and which are now protected.
Next came Burn Cottage from our friends Nicola and Andrew Sprake, a 3 bedroomed traditional cottage in Askrigg, and also their much loved second home, which is reflected in the many personal touches throughout the cottage, and this was followed by Number 2 in Richmond, a chic and stunning cottage in the heart of the Georgian town on one of its ancient and historic medieval wynds.
In 2007 Pry House Farm at Keld joined our growing but select collection of holiday cottages. This is owned by Chris and Glenda Calvert on their family farm at the top of Swaledale, in a fabulous location, beautifully refurbished, and which will ultimately be their family home.
Also in 2007 we were given the opportunity to manage Croft House, also in Askrigg, owned by Mick and Joanne Wright. This was their family home, but they presently live and work abroad, so we look after it on their behalf in the meantime.
