Thursday 11 April 2019

A Week in The Yorkshire Dales #3 - Exploring Skipton

Hi there everyone 😀

After our decent 'proper' walk on Sunday we decided we needed to rest our legs a bit on Monday. The weather wasn’t looking to be brilliant and we decided on a drive to Skipton, where we were hoping for a bit of a mooch, a bit of lunch and maybe a call in at Grassington on the way back.

After about a 20 minute drive we were soon parked up and heading for the Skipton High Street ...
... passing some eye catching window displays on the way ...
Monday was market day so we had a wander up the High Street to see what we could find. Whilst there wasn’t much of interest to us on the market we did find plenty to keep us interested in the Craven Court Shopping Centre ...
It’s right at the heart of Skipton and was developed form an original Skipton building, which included a theatre, and dates back to the 16th Century. It’s a fully enclosed shopping centre and is based on a Victorian theme with lots of wrought ironwork and a glass roof ...

It was a real treat with plenty of independent shops, some of which were very very quirky ...
After a good mooch round we headed black out into the High Street to see what else we could find.

There are plenty of town maps dotted around the town centre and we decided to make our next port of call the canal basin.

We headed up to the bus station and over the canal bridge ...
... where there were some good views of a traditional Yorkshire Street with the hills beyond ...
... and plenty of reminders of the mills of years gone by ...
We had a wander along the canal, passing the brightly coloured boats ...
... to the basin ...
... where there was plenty of activity ...
We decided to head back over a different bridge back into town ...
... for a bit more mooching ...

We did manage a few purchases along the way, but I did restrain myself in the fabric shop. We could not resist a sneaky warm pork pie though, which went down very nicely.

We carried on back up to the castle, though we didn’t pay a visit today.
By now we were both ready for a bit of a pit stop and decided to head back to the cafe in the Craven Shopping Centre ...
Although there was plenty of seating with cosy blankets outside, we opted to go indoors as it looked very quirky and we wanted to have a closer look ...
The Cake 'Ole was just crazy inside, with all kinds of madness going on everywhere you looked ...

... even in the loo ...
The cakes looked amazing, but just enormous ...

... so I opted for a sticky toffee traybake, which was very nice and Martin went for a panini ...
If you’re in Skipton we would both recommend a stop in here, it was certainly an experience not to be missed.

It was time to head off and we made our way back to the car and decided that we would call in at Grassington on the way back, but I will tell you more about that in my next post 😀

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