The WensleydaleHotel Middleham

The Wensleydale Hotel occupies a Grade II listed coaching inn built around 1800 on Middleham's Market Place, a building recorded hosting travellers including Viscount Torrington in 1792 and the diarist Charles Fothergill in 1805, when it traded as the White Swan. Charles and Fiona Merchie took over the property in spring 2019, renaming it after the dale and creating the Tack Room, a restaurant styled around the town's thoroughbred racing industry that holds an AA Rosette. The kitchen serves French brasserie-influenced dishes alongside English classics such as Sunday roasts, and the hotel's rooms look out over Middleham Castle and the racehorses that pass through the square. Run as a single, independently owned hotel rather than part of a group, it anchors the town centre it has served for more than two centuries.