With 4 Red Stars and 3 Rosettes awarded by the AA for excellent facilities high levels of service and quality of cuisine this is the highest rated hotel in Yorkshire and Cumbria. Swinton Park is the ancestral home of the Cunliffe-Lister family and is set in 200 acres of parkland lakes and gardens. The castle is surrounded by the family estate in which guests have access to rivers reservoirs moorland dales and beautiful countryside bordering the Yorkshire Dales National Park. The bedrooms on first and second floors are individually designed and decorated on the theme of a Yorkshire town dale castle abbey or garden according to the aspect of the room. All rooms are equipped with two direct dial telephones a modem point CD player satellite TV trouser press drinks tray and coffeetea facilities. Four of the thirty bedrooms are suites and the turret room is on three floors with a (steep!) staircase between. A lift serves both first and second floors. Four of the en-suite bathrooms are equipped for disabled use.