Welcome to the Slate Rigg Farm Bed and Breakfast and Self Catering Holiday Cottages. In the Yorkshire Dales you’ll find the historic village of Ripley near Harrogate in the beautiful Dale of Nidderdale and overlooking Ripley deer parks and surrounding area is our farm. With glorious views, we are just a mile from the village located on the peaceful but popular bridle way - The Nidderdale Way. You are assured of a restful night’s sleep to help you relax and enjoy your stay in North Yorkshire. We have two Bed and Breakfast rooms in Slate Rigg Farmhouse and have recently converted an old cart shed into two self catering holiday cottages. They have wonderful views and are ideal for exploring the Dales and perhaps a little retail therapy in Harrogate or York! The farm is a mixed arable farm, with cattle and breeding sheep which are fed with our home grown crops. We have one sheep dog which is called Kip, who is very friendly; especially if you throw her stick for her (she's not allowed stones, although she'll try!). Our two cats are farm cats, one very friendly black one named Owen (after Michael) and the other one that is just the opposite is called Gismo (if you've seen the film Gremlins-you'll understand!) We are ideally situated for local attractions such as Fountains Abbey, Ripley Castle, Harewood House and local beauty spots such as Brimham Rocks, Stump Cross Caverns and Nidderdale itself as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. We offer bed and breakfast for short term stay or if you are looking for somewhere to stay where you can relax for a longer time we have just completed two new cottages Bramble and Buttercup, there is a minimum stay but if you only need a night or two the bed and breakfast rooms could be right for you. Bramble and Buttercup Cottages Bookings can be made directly with ourselves by either phone (we have a answer phone in case we’re out working on the farm, please leave a message and we’ll get back to you as soon as we come in) or email via the link on the contact page. We do advertise with a accommodation company so we have to check they have no provisional bookings for the same dates but that can be done in minutes (and booking directly saves you and us commision!) Please take a moment to read our Terms and Conditions for payment details etc. Kip our Collie Dog Even Winter can be stunning Pictures of our Farm Slate Rigg Farm entrance

News: 07/10/2011 OK I’m ready for the weather to act normally now, just as I was starting to put away the summer clothes, out they came again – it’s what I call teasing! Kip has finally stopped moulting and is acting like a young pup again, my living room carpet has recovered once more, those of you with dogs will understand. Claire has started teaching, she says she has the best of both worlds, year 7’s who at least for one year should be good and year 12’s who actually want to learn the subjects they’ve chosen! As for the newly weds – they’re still smiling! 06/05/2011 Sorry for the delay, the web host has been down – nothing to do with me I might say! Anyway where did it go – they’ve already had their second month anniversary. If you want to know, the weather was wonderful! We came out of church and the sun was shining down as if it was high summer. Are we lucky or what. The times that Keith and I have been told we ‘scrub up well` leaves me wondering what we normally look like! But I think they were compliments. As for the speeches, all three were excellent, no embarrassing moments, just funny and true – wonderful. The day was perfect even down to Claire catching the bouquet (and that was with Vicki with her back turned and eyes shut!) Sorry Ed. We had a day to remember and I’m sure my feet will forgive me eventually – I’m not really a high heels kind of mother-in-law! 19.02.2011 Well, I can nearly count the days to the wedding on two hands now. Today it’s snowing so we’re looking forward to watching the weeks weather on Sundays Countryfile. Oh the anticipation of the English weather! Keith and Shak are practising their speeches, both trying to see who can embarrass Vicki most. This winter Kip has filled out a little, middle aged spread I think. The dog and I have taken up jogging in anticipation of this and the fact I want my wedding outfit to fit. We love running along the Nidderdale Way but are very much fair weather runners! Claire’s enjoying her P.G.C.E. course, although very hard work, she’s keeping life and soul together with the help and cooking skills of Ed. 19.09.2010 Historically it’s said when Nidderdale Show has been and gone so has the summer. As the show is tomorrow I think the saying’s spot on. It’s definitely ‘back end’ now. Vicki is running the Great North Run today; hopefully she’ll be able to walk tomorrow. Good luck to her, we’ll be watching to see if we can spot her although it would have been easier if she’d worn a banana outfit! The wedding plans are full steam ahead for next year, with the brides and bridesmaid dresses sorted, there’s only mother of the bride to suit and boot. I’ve been told a boiler suit won’t cut it! Claire’s having a change of career, `travelling the world’ is not as appealing when Ed is waiting at home. She’s started a P.G.C.E. course to become a secondary school teacher and hopefully will be able to keep order in the classroom as she did in China. 06.06.10 We managed to get the sheep sheared yesterday before it rained again, i think we have three nice days and then one horrible one, its rained all day today! Fortunately the sheep don’t mind us taking their coats off at this time of year even if it is raining because they have a habit of getting on their backs and not been able to right themselves for weight of wool before been sheared – another way for a sheep to die - one of many! At least the silage and hay fields are looking healthier than they did, with the cold wet winter and the cold dry spring the grass was refusing to grow but now it won’t be long before we can get to work, although Keiths gone to France for a couple of days on a study tour of cattle farms – at least that’s what he told me! 07.04.10 Finally the grass is greening and the birds are starting to sing again. Our Lapwings and Kites are out in force, hopefully nesting locally. It’s been a long winter but I’m sure the summer’s going to make up for it – fingers crossed! Claire’s on her way home from yet another trip this time to Uganda. Vicki and Shak have eaten all her Easter Eggs but we haven’t told her yet. 07.02.10 No excuses – i should have updated this before now. In October i went to Australia whilst Claire was there, well you have to take advantage of your offspring! We had a wonderful time in Perth, Brisbane and down the gold coast to Sydney, although i wouldn’t have missed it for the world, its always nice to come home and i’m not the emigrating sort. The snow we had around Christmas was timed to perfection, our girls were both home with respective partners at different times and all reverted to childhood when faced with a hill and a sledge! Although Kip wasn’t too keen to sit on anyone's knee. Vicki and Shak announced their engagement which we’re all very pleased about, with a wedding to look forward to next year. 08.09.09 As the summer ends and the nights start to pull in (all too soon), i think we have had a sucessful season! The cottages have been almost fully booked and thats from a standing start in May! The girls are still in London, Vicki’s just got another promotion and is well on her way to Sir Humpreys job and Claire is on her way to Australia for a month as she’s now in charge of the Melbourne office. As for the Bbq summer we were promised - Keith still has some combining to, hopefully this week the weather will allow us to finish. On a sad note, we lost Owen this summer, she had a tumor and we had her put to sleep. She’d had 14 good years with us, for a farm cat thats not too bad. 29.06.09 As you can see, our web site has changed! Shak’s done a wonderful job with it, although we do have one or two teathing problems, you may have struggled to open it directly from the web address, but this will be solved as soon as Shak and i find out how!! 29.5.09 I'm so pleased with the bookings we're getting - all the hard work was worth it! Please look out for our new style website coming soon, Vicki's boyfriend is designing it for us I’m sure it will be excellent!  12.5.09 Well our first guests haven't told me we've forgotten anything so that's a good sign! Everything must be working ok and the lawn has been mown for the first time (anyone who knows me will wonder how I managed to leave it for so long!)  27.3.09 We have our first booking! The cottages are going to be Christened on 2nd May. I think Keith will break out the champagne and celebrate the end of two years hard labour.  09.3.09 At last we're on the home run! The cottages have bathrooms kitchens and lights!! There's the paving outside to be done and little things like beds and sofa's and flat screen digital TV’s! We're getting there!  30.1.09 We hope to start building the kitchens in the holiday cottages tomorrow; I've been painting all week and am looking forward to the change! I think with the under floor heating the cottages will be the best place to be next week!  16.1.09 With luck and a lot more hard work, I think we're on schedule to open in May - although Keith, ever the optimist, thinks next Christmas! I think he's joking!  17.9.08 Well as you can tell, we've been busy! The holiday cottages are coming along, the roofs on, windows and doors fixed and the under floor heating system in place. The electrician is here for the first fix - you see I know all the jargon!!  17.9.08 The girls are fully employed now, both in London. Claire works for an expedition company in charge of China (obviously) Vietnam and Nepal. Vicki works in Whitehall, trying to keep the Government in order (and failing! She tries very hard)  07.6.07 Well I think summers here? You can never be sure with our English weather! Claire's back from Beijing, fluent in Chinese and job hunting. Vicki graduates from Durham at the end of the month with a job in London waiting for her. We're proud of them both.  24.4.07 The weathers been wonderful for lambing this time, the sheep all wanted to lamb at Easter so to say we were busy is an understatement! But we are rewarded now when you watch the lambs gather in gangs to run round the fields when their mothers aren't watching. 23.1.07 It’s hard to believe that 2006 has come and gone! My friend Pat told me I had to update my blog so here goes. We finally got our planning consent on the Old Cart Shed, which is going to be two one bedroomed holiday lets. They will have wonderful views.  23.1.07 This winter the weathers been dreadful, the sheep are water proof but even they think enough’s enough! Although my new hobby isn't suffering, I’m a mole catcher now (it was either us or them!), the fields are already looking greener not brown and hilly!  19.9.06 Like the swallows our daughters have left us once again, the oldest is back in China at Beijing Uni learning Chinese (as you do) and the youngest one is starting her last year at Durham Uni with hopes of good results next June (well we hope so).

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