Hogwood Cottage Knaresborough

Hogwood Cottage is on the Market Place in Knaresborough. It's for two people. One bedroom, one bathroom. It's a 4 Star place, which means it's well kept and comfortable.

You share the main front door and a small foyer with the flat upstairs, Market Place View. Then you go through your own door, down a couple of steps, and into the cottage. It's stone-built and old, 1700s I think. There's a name, Elizabeth Hogwood, scratched on a window pane from 1907, which is why it's called that. The Wi-Fi is okay, but it's weaker in the cottage because of the thick walls.

You've got a little private courtyard out the back. The stairs inside are steep and a bit narrow. They're just part of an old cottage.

Location is the main thing. You walk out the door and you're right in the middle of the market square. There are shops, cafes, and the castle ruins are a two-minute walk. You can walk down to the river, hire a rowboat, or just sit in the gardens. The train station is about five minutes walk. You can be in Harrogate in under ten minutes, or York in about half an hour.

Harrogate has the Turkish Baths and Betty's Tea Rooms. York is York, all the history and the Minster. For a bigger day out, the Yorkshire Dales and the North York Moors are both within about an hour's drive. So is the coast, like Whitby.

Included in the price: all utilities, bedding and towels, TV. There's the courtyard garden. The entrance is wheelchair accessible to the foyer, but there are then two steps down into the cottage itself.