Granny House is on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, voted the best National Park in Europe! Best National Parks

In the kitchen you will find a vast collection of leaflets and some reference folders full of information helping you to plan your day trips. We also provide you with some history about Granny House and Bell Busk.

Bell Busk adjoins the Coniston Hall Estate with opportunities for swimming, spa treatments, archery, off roading, clay pigeon shooting, fly fishing or just eating and drinking in the bars and restaurants, relaxing next to the log fire looking out over the lake.

You can walk or cycle from the door, The Pennine Way is just a few hundred yards to the North. Granville House is at the heart of the Pennine way on the very pretty gentle section from Gargrave to Malham.

Gargrave is a 2 mile walk along a very gentle pretty lane or a 5 minute trip in the car. You will find an excellent Co-op with good bread and fine wines, an award winning Indian restaurant, excellent fish and chip shop, 4 antique shops, 3 pubs, the Pennine way and remains of our Roman road submerged by the river but clearly visible. The local pharmacy are there too. Our 'local' is The Victoria in Kirkby Malham.

The Yorkshire Dales National Park is on your doorstep with pretty places to visit such as, Malham Cove, and Gordale Scar, Janet's Foss, Aysgarth Falls, Yockenthwaite, and Ingleton Falls

Try some of the best hill walking England has to offer on the 3 peaks Ingleborough, Pen Y Ghent, Whernside or Pendle Hill, we provide a Malhamdale walk book, a Dales walk book and an OS map that offer a variety of easy to difficult walks.

The AONB of The Forest of Bowland is just down the road with the famous Trough of Bowland and Gisburn Forest which is excellent for mountain biking.

You can wander round the picturesque villages of Aireton, Linton, Hetton, Grassington, Malham, Kettlewell, Haworth, Hawes, Kirkby Lonsdale, Clapham, Ingleton, Pateley Bridge and Embsay.

If you are coming to shop, then do it in style in our local towns; Skipton, Settle, Harrogate, Ilkley, and Clitheroe, or try our beautiful Yorkshire cities; Ripon, Leeds and York.

Skipton is our nearest town. Skipton is ancient and boasts a medieval castle, canal, river, 4 day market, and a museum with Shakespeare's First Folio.

For nature lovers, we provide you with bird seed so you can sit and watch our visitors with ease, we can lend you our bat detector too and if you want to see the salmon leaping then come and visit in September and October, they leap up the Ribble at Stainforth Force

For geologists we have an example of just about every geological feature within a 20 mile radius, there are coral islands, faults, basins, hills, valleys, glacial moraine, erratics, caves, mines, quarries ,rivers and waterfalls, the last ice age was here.

For the archaeologists we have collected some leaflets that will guide you on local walks and we recommend a visit to the Hoffmann Kiln at Langcliffe.

For those of you interested in Victorian mills and towns, we have the finest example of its kind at Saltaire, just 40minutes in the car and a fine example of a mill owners house at Cliffe Castle in Keighley.

Look no further for real ale, there are plenty of opportunities to taste it in local pubs or see it being made in Masham at the Theakston Brewery or Black Sheep Brewery

If trains are your thing, then look no further, take a ride on the Embsayboltonabbeyrailway, or the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, up to Haworth to have a look at where the Brontes lived. The nearby village of Hellifield provides the gateway station for the famous Settle to Carlisle Railway, described as the most beautiful train journey in England. The famous Ribblehead viaduct is not far away. Sometimes the steam engines puff along over the little Bell Busk viaduct while you are watching from the comfort of your armchair. The world famous Metcalfe models are made in Bell Busk which is also home to Hesper Farm and Skyr.

If you are interested in ruins then it's worth visiting Bolton Abbey, Bardon Tower, Fountains Abbey, Jervaulx Abbey and Rievaulx Abbey