Gifts, cakes and cards to take home from Buckden

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 are available to the value of £10, £15 and £20.

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 or twin room for one night and costs £56 (double room) or £50 (twin room).

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.

Cat's Tales from the Dales Joke Book

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

A week's worth of purr-fect humour, put together specially for West Winds. Enjoy a sample joke here...

What did the inflatable headmaster say to the inflatable schoolboy outside the inflatable school when he caught him holding a penknife?

“You’ve let me down, you’ve let yourself down, you’ve let the whole school down!”

Cat's Tales from the Dales is available only from West Winds. To receive a copy by post, send a cheque for £2.80 (includes postage and packing), made payable to Lynn Thornborrow, 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 Cat's Tales', together with your postal address. We'll process your order as soon as we receive your payment.

West Winds Yorkshire Cake Box

Available at the tearooms...

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

A box contains pieces of:

Traditional moist Yorkshire curd tart with currants and a hint of lemons from an old Yorkshire recipe
Sticky brandy fruitcake, with a wedge of Traditional Wensleydale cheese
Dales cut-and-come-again cake, a deceptively more-ish light fruitcake
Traditional Yorkshire parkin, made with ginger, black treacle and oatmeal from an old Yorkshire recipe

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 Raydale Preserves

Available at the tearooms...

Our jams and marmalades are either home-made at West Winds or bought from Raydale Preserves, based at Stalling Busk near Semer Water. We sell a range of products made by this traditional jam-maker for you to try at home. For further details, visit the Raydale Preserves website.

Yorkshire Honey from Malton

Available at the tearooms...

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

Yorkshire Dales Granola from Yockenthwaite Farm

Available at the tearooms...

Exquisite breakfast cereal or trailside snack from nearby Yockenthwaite Farm in Langstrothdale, made with freshly milled and toasted wholegrain oats and wheat with almonds, walnuts and peanuts.

Fruit juices from Yorkshire Orchards near York

Available at the tearooms...

Made on a fruit farm at Wilberfoss that grows its own apples, blackberries and raspberries.

Glendale Ginger from Reeth

Available at the tearooms...

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

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 Recipe Books

Available at the tearooms...

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

Green Living Guides

Available at the tearooms...

We stock the set of green living guides published by leading green politician and campaigner Sian Berry. Signed by the author, the readable and concise books look at sensible, money-saving ways to do your bit. Choose from Fifty Ways to Be a Greener Shopper, Fifty Ways to Greener Travel, Fifty Ways to Make Your House and Garden Greener, and Fifty Ways to Save Water and Energy, all below the list price...

Personal Yorkshire Flags

Available at the tearooms...

Hand flags bearing the White Rose of Yorkshire. 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.