Hartley Hare Barn

26/08/2024

13/08/2024

Do you prefer a squeeze or a kissing gate? Anyone who enjoys walking in the Yorkshire Dales will be familiar with the many different methods landowners use to enable walkers to use footpaths without letting out their livestock.

Miles and miles of dry stone walls criss cross the landscape, enclosing fields where sheep and cows graze. You'll spot some breaks or 'squeezes' in stone walls, created by vertical stones, which you can just about manage to squeeze through. You'll also find layered steps creating out of stone slabs walking over a dry stone wall.

I particularly love the many make-shift gates that were clearly made many years ago, often 'it'll do for now' creations, bound together with baler twine, that have somehow managed to hang on for years and years.

Sometimes there are more sophisticated solutions, with proper springs or weighted rocks to help the gate to close, but mostly they're very simple affairs.

Kissing gates dispense with the need for a 'please close the gate' sign and reduce the chances of an errant tup finding the ewes. They're easy for humans to use but tricky for livestock to figure out. The gate swings so that they're just kissing room to pass. There are many variations of this - there's even a double one along the riverside walk at Burnsall.

There are countless wooden stiles abound, often quite rickety and some with little dog doors at the bottom. Whatever the format, stiles, gates and wall squeezes abound, often beautiful in their simplicity and usefulness.

Photos of your favourites?

Image by Andrew Locking

13/08/2024

Any thrill seekers visiting Hartley Hare Barn may love this…

The Gaping Gill Winch Meet, operated by Craven Pothole Club is on now until Friday. If you've ever been down you will know what an amazing experience this is. Find out more about the event, here 👇

https://www.cravenpotholeclub.org/index.php/about-gaping-gill/visit-gaping-gill

📸 Wendy McDonnell |

01/08/2024

Watching the sunset at Hartley Hare Barn… what a beautiful closure of Yorkshire Day.

15/07/2024

For the historian guests… this tour may be of interest… Settle is so fascinating… come and see for yourself 😊

03/06/2024

A little treat and just up the road!

03/06/2024

This door was originally an external door on the barn - that doorway now being a window. Repurposing the door has added real character to the centre of the barn. Behind the door step up into the Sitting Room. From the Sitting Room step down into the hall where you can just see an original beam forming the newel post of the staircase and the Jacobs ladder halfway up the stairs… Hartley Hare Barn a historic Grade II listed barn with so many original features… come and see them…

07/05/2024

A visit is a must when at HHB

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Introducing ‘Fizz n Chips’ fresh haddock, crispy batter, beef fat chips, crushed peas and proper tartare sauce - for 2, with a bottle of Prosecco for only £45!

Every weekday lunch and evening, starts today!

24/03/2024

Just another Coffee Shop to try and maybe combine with a wonderful walk at The Ribblehead Viaduct 😁

Spring has sprung 🥳🌻 This can only mean one thing.....
Ribblehead Coffee Shop and Visitors Centre will be opening on Monday 25th March.
We are open 7 days a week 10- 4 right through till ( dare I say) Christmas.
We look forward to seeing all our wonderful customers and amazing volunteers.
Please tag us in your visits.

07/03/2024

Fabulous place for photography!

06/03/2024

Every Tuesday in our historic market town. Also new to Settle are Artisan Sunday Markets… this Sunday!

29/02/2024

Happy leaping 💚

Here is your Pic of the ! Have you noticed an additional day in your calendar? 2024 is a .

Will you be doing anything special with your extra day?

Why do we have leap years?
We use the Gregorian calendar year to keep track of time, which has 365 days. However, the Earth takes a fraction longer to orbit the sun and if this extra time amounted the seasons would slowly move out of sync with our calendar. Imagine winter weather in June 😱

This lamb was found leaping one year in 🐑

📸 Mark Sadler

26/02/2024

23/02/2024

Yesterday was a day of fast-moving moody clouds and rainbows in the 🌦️The does do great dramatic big skies! Like this atmospheric image of the iconic Ribblehead Viaduct.

We do have blue skies too though we promise - check in tomorrow morning 💚

📸 Natalie E Hough LRPS

20/02/2024

I always want to know that guests have enjoyed their stay at Hartley Hare Barn. I work so hard to keep the barn ‘tip top’ for every guest… even though this is now our third year I want every guest to feel ‘the magic’. So to read that HHB EXCEEDED our last guests expectations is really wonderful. Managing expectations is one thing but exceeding is the icing on the cake 💚