Rye HillFarm

Rye Hill Farm has offered bed and breakfast from its Slaley farmhouse since 1988, when the family running the working sheep farm decided to open spare rooms to guests. The farmhouse itself is around 300 years old and sits within the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, five miles south of Hexham. Three en suite rooms, a double and two family rooms, are let alongside a self-catering byre conversion and a campsite on the same holding. Breakfast uses the farm's own free-range eggs and locally produced sausages and bacon, served with homemade bread and jams. The family has run this single Slaley site throughout, without opening a second guest house elsewhere in Northumberland. Guests reach Hadrian's Wall, Blanchland and Hexham within a short drive, and dogs stay at no extra charge, reflecting the working farm's character rather than a hotel-chain formula.