Cockett's Hotel & Restaurant

Changes at Cocketts Hotel (October 2019)

During October big changes are happening at Cocketts Hotel and Restaurant, we are under new management! One of the first changes you will notice is a new website, visit it by clicking on the adjacent link: Cocketts Hotel New Website

Hawes in Wensleydale is the ideal base for exploring the delights of James Herriot's Yorkshire and the Dales National Park.
The countryside can be enjoyed on foot, on horseback, (there are pony trekking stables nearby) or by car. There is much to see, the rugged limestone scenery with its unusual features such as the 'Buttertubs', deep and strangely shaped holes close to the road to Swaledale through Buttertubs Pass, north of Hawes. Other features well worth seeing are Wensleydale's waterfalls. A couple of miles away on the other side of the dale is the highest unbroken waterfall in Britain, Hardrow Force, 100 feet high. Further down the dale are Aysgarth Falls, three of them, Upper, Middle and Lower. A few miles from Hawes is Semerwater, a lake formed by glacial action from which flows the shortest English river, the river Bain.

Places of Interest (Click for more information)

External Websites

Wensleydale Railway "The country's newest railway"
Dales Countryside Museum, Hawes, Upper Wensleydale
Middleham Online, Middleham, Wensleydale
Yorkshire Dales Flyfishing, Bradley, Nr. Skipton

The Forbidden Corner, Middleham, Coverdale
Bolton Castle, near Leyburn, Wensleydale
The Catpottery, West Burton, Wensleydale
Wensleydale & Swaledale Craft Workshops
Gayle Mill, regional finalist in the BBC Restoration series
Bolton Abbey, Wharfedale
Harewood House, Lower Wharfedale
Ingleton Waterfalls Walk, Ingleton, Ribblesdale
National Railway Museum, York
York Minster, York
York Dungeon, York
World of Beattrix Potter, Bowness-on-Windermere, Lake District
Aquarium of The Lakes, Newby Bridge, Lake District
Windermere Lake Cruises, Lake Windermere, Lake District
Erin House Prints, Collectable Limited Editions for your Home.
Dedicated to James Herriot
HMS Wensleydale (L 86) WW2 Destroyer
For the sausage enthusiast good suppliers in the North Yorkshire area
Newby Hall & Gardens
Kettlewell Village

Visitor Information

Yorkshire Dales App An App for your iPhone, Android or Blackberry smartphones; presented by the Yorkshire Dales National Park is available from the three respective links. The present version covers the area around Malham in the south and Hawes in the north of the National Park.

An example of the content on the App in the Hawes vicinity is the Snaizeholme red squirrel trail, a 9.5 mile (15km) self-guided linear walk, starting and finishing at the Dales Countryside Museum, Hawes. The trail consists of route instructions and a map, accompanied by an mp3 audio file which describes what you might see as you walk along and helps you learn more about squirrels and their habitats.