West Winds Yorkshire Tearooms with homely bed and breakfast

Gift vouchers

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

Gift vouchers for Lunch, Afternoon Tea and High Tea are available to the value of £10 and £20.

A gift voucher for bed and breakfast covers the cost of tea and home-baked cake on arrival, bedroom chocolates and full English breakfast in the morning. It provides accommodation for two people in a double or twin room for one night and costs £54 or £50.

Vouchers are high quality and suitable for presentation. They are printed in full colour on A4-size stiff paper and include pictures of Buckden and the tea garden, with full location and contact details. They come in a card-stiffened A4-size envelope. All vouchers are available by post (please send a cheque payable to Lynn Thornborrow) or from your waitress in the tearooms.

Take-home cakes

If you enjoy our cakes in the tearooms, you can take home a slice or two to enjoy later.

We also offer Presentation Boxes of West Winds Traditional 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 real lemons from an old Yorkshire recipe
Rich brandy fruitcake, with a wedge of Traditional Wensleydale cheese
Dales cut-and-come-again cake, a deceptively more-ish light fruitcake, with a wedge of Traditional Wensleydale cheese
Traditional Yorkshire parkin, made with ginger, black treacle and oatmeal from an old Yorkshire recipe

We also offer take-home boxes of Fruitcake and Cheese, each containing two pieces of home-made rich brandy fruitcake with a 200g waxed Traditional Wensleydale cheese, made at Hawes.

Baking to order

Cakes made to order for your own larder

Many of our most popular cakes are available for you to enjoy in the comfort of your own tearooms at home!

Chocolate cake with a strawberry jam and chocolate filling and chocolate icing. Small (six servings) £4.50; large (eight servings) £6

Coffee and walnut cake, filled with rich coffee-flavour butter cream and decorated with walnut halves. Small (six servings) £4.50; large (eight servings) £6

Deliciously gooey carrot and walnut cake with a cream cheese filling and topping. Small (six servings) £4.50; large (eight servings) £6

Victoria sandwich cake, filled with strawberry jam and rich butter cream. Small (six servings) £4.50; large (eight servings) £6

Date and walnut loaf, delicious spread with butter or margarine (eight servings): £4.40

Ground almond slice with a hint of apricots, topped with sliced nuts (enough for 12 servings but sold for you to cut into large or small pieces, as you wish): £7.80

Almond bakewell slice, loaded with cherries and currants (enough for 12 servings but sold for you to cut into large or small pieces, as you wish): £7.80

Chocolate-covered caramel shortbread, the ultimate in teatime indulgence (enough for 12 servings but sold for you to cut into large or small pieces, as you wish): £7.80

Fruit scones made in our Aga and ideal for serving with butter, jam and cream: £4.80 per dozen

Cheese scones made in our Aga for a more savoury afternoon tea: £4.80 per dozen

Please order three days in advance by calling us on 01756 760883 or e-mailing us at lynn@westwindsinyorkshire.co.uk.

Our cakes and scones are fully home-made using traditional ingredients. We do our best to use local, organic and Fairtrade ingredients wherever feasible. Although we do our best to meet all requirements, regrettably we cannot offer this service at busy times.

Traditional Yorkshire hand-made rag-rugs

Traditional Yorkshire rag-rugs (also known as peg or stob 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. Currently Elsie is producing sheep-design hearth rugs (£45), door rugs (£25) and wall hangers (£10).

High quality local preserves

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.

Greetings cards and postcards

We sell Yorkshire greetings cards and unique postcards of West Winds and Buckden, together with a range of interesting and thought-provoking message cards from Leeds Postcards, with the proceeds donated entirely to charity.

You can choose to donate to either the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust or the Home Farm Trust.

Donations to the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust will help protect Grass Wood near Grassington, a limestone nature reserve rich in wild flowers such as St John’s wort, bluebell, lily of the valley, herb Paris, green hellebore, bloody cranesbill, wild strawberry, rock rose and orchids, and containing woodland birds such as wood warbler, woodcock and green woodpecker. Conifer plantation areas are being replaced with native broad-leaves to improve their wildlife value.

For more information about work carried out by the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, visit the trust's website.

The Home Farm Trust is a national charity that provides care for people with a learning disability and support for their carers and families. In Leeds the trust provides residential and day-care packages, as well as supported living arrangements for 65 people in 16 houses around the city.

For further details of the Home Farm Trust, visit the charity's website.