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What’s there
- Café on site
- Free parking
- Dogs welcome
Access & inclusion
- Step-free access
Free on-site parking at the Visitor Centre, including designated disabled bays. Overflow pay and display car parks in Hawes; coach parking by appointment only.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
The Wensleydale Creamery visitor centre sits in the market town of Hawes in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, and is built around the making of Yorkshire Wensleydale cheese. Families can watch master cheesemakers at work from a viewing gallery overlooking the creamery, then work through the museum that traces the cheese's history from its early days to the present. A live demonstration room and a self-guided cheese experience keep younger visitors interested, and the cheese shop offers free tasting of a wide range of varieties. There is a gift shop with plenty of Wallace and Gromit merchandise, a self-service coffee shop with an outdoor garden, and a restaurant for lunch. Dogs are welcome in the coffee shop garden, and the centre suits a relaxed half-day or longer out with children of all ages.
Shorter hours from 2 November as described in hoursNote.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
Wet wipes
Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.- Wet bagFor whatever comes home soaked.
Sketchbook- Sting relief
- Hand warmers
Travel pillow
Plasters
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Photos: 維基小霸王, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Renée Kools, CC BY 4.0 · Takahiro Yamagiwa, CC BY 2.0
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