Yorkshire gifts

West Winds Gift Vouchers

West Winds Bed and Breakfast Gift Voucher

Available at the tearooms and by mail-order...

If you enjoy your visit to the tearooms, or your overnight stay, why not give someone you know a West Winds Gift Voucher so they can come and experience things for themselves? It could be a unique present...

Gift vouchers for Lunch, Afternoon Tea and High Tea can be made out to any value. Alternatively, you might like a voucher for a Luxury Yorkshire Afternoon Tea for two, which costs £24.80.

A gift voucher for bed and breakfast covers the cost of tea and home-baked cake on arrival, bedroom chocolates and a choice of breakfasts in the morning. It provides accommodation for two people in a double room or two single rooms for one night and costs £58.

Vouchers are high quality and suitable for presentation. They can be personalised according to your requirements and are printed in full colour on A4-size paper. They include pictures of West Winds with full location and contact details and come in a card-stiffened A4-size envelope. Vouchers are available from the tearooms or by post.

To receive a voucher by post, send a cheque for the appropriate amount made payable to Lynn Thornborrow, together with your instructions, to West Winds Yorkshire Tearooms, Buckden, Skipton, North Yorkshire BD23 5JA.

Alternatively, order and pay through the PayPal secure payment system. Simply click on the Buy Now button below. Remember to click on 'Add special instructions to seller' and type in 'Payment for Gift Voucher', together with your postal address, the sort of voucher you would like, together with any special requirements. We'll process your order as soon as we receive your payment.

Shaggy Dog Stories and Other Jokes from Yorkshire

Available at the tearooms and by mail-order...

A week's worth of barking-mad humour, put together by Smarter Cat. Enjoy some sample jokes here...

“Doctor, Doctor – you must help me. I keep losing my temper with people.”
“Tell me about your problem.”
“I just did, you stupid idiot!”

A cosmetics tanker has overturned on the M62 in West Yorkshire, spilling a full load of shampoo on the road. Police are now appealing for 800 gallons of conditioner.

Shaggy Dog Stories is available from West Winds. To receive a copy by post, send a cheque for £4.20 (includes postage and packing), made payable to West Winds Yorkshire Tearooms, to West Winds Yorkshire Tearooms, Buckden, Skipton, North Yorkshire BD23 5JA.

Alternatively, pay through the PayPal secure payment system. Simply click on the Buy Now button below. Remember to click on 'Add special instructions to seller' and type in 'Payment for Shaggy Dog Stories', together with your postal address. We'll process your order as soon as we receive your payment.

West Winds Cake Box

Available at the tearooms...

If you enjoy our cakes in the tearooms, you can take home a Presentation Box of your choice of West Winds Cakes, suitable for use as a gift or for you to eat yourself!

West Winds Fruitcake and Cheese Box

Available at the tearooms...

We also offer take-home Presentation Boxes of sticky brandy fruitcake and cheese, containing two pieces of home-made fruitcake with a 200g waxed Traditional Wensleydale cheese, made at Hawes.

West Winds Chocolates by Whitaker's of Skipton

Available at the tearooms...

Remember your visit with a beautifully crafted box of fine chocolate truffles, specially made for West Winds Yorkshire Tearooms by Skipton chocolatiers Whitaker's.

Jams and Chutneys by Bracken Hill Fine Foods

Available at the tearooms...

Our jams, marmalades, jellies and chutneys are either home-made at West Winds or bought from Bracken Hill Fine Foods, based at Elvington near York. We sell a range of products made by Bracken Hill for you to try at home. For further details, visit the Bracken Hill Fine Foods website.

Yorkshire Honey from Malton

Available at the tearooms...

Delicious honey made by beekeeper Marcus Cordingley using nectar from spring blossom and heather.

Glendale Ginger from Reeth

Available at the tearooms...

A non-alcoholic ginger drink made in the Dales to a 300-year-old recipe.

Wilkinson's Pontefract Cakes

Available at the tearooms...

Authentic liquorice sweets made by one of the two surviving Pontefract Cake factories in this Yorkshire town.

Yorkshire Recipe Books

Available at the tearooms...

Compact books containing enough recipes to offer an authentic taste of Yorkshire in any kitchen.

Traditional Yorkshire Hand-Made Rag-Rugs

Available at the tearooms...

Traditional Yorkshire rag-rugs, made in Buckden by Elsie Thornborrow, are available at West Winds. Elsie's work won first prize at the 2006 Kilnsey Show, one of the most respected agricultural and rural life shows in the North. Elsie's rugs are produced through hours of painstaking work, hooking strips of mixed cloth through a hessian base. The method has been handed down through generations of Dales people putting unwanted clothing and material to good use. Elsie produces a range of items, including hearth rugs, door rugs and wall hangings. At the moment she is selling door rugs at West Winds.

Yorkshire Flags

Available at the tearooms...

Flags featuring the White Rose of Yorkshire in both flag-pole and hand-waving sizes. Essential equipment for Yorkshire Day in August each year or round-the-clock patriotism!

Greetings Cards and Postcards

Available at the tearooms...

Yorkshire and countryside greetings cards; postcards of Buckden produced for West Winds by Smarter Cat; and a range of interesting and thought-provoking message cards from Leeds Postcards.