Squires Cafe Bar

From £10 For 1 night, 6 adults 8.9 563 reviews
Hardstanding pitches (added by manager 30 Oct 2013)
This is one of the many views (added by manager 11 sep 2013)
This is another part of the grass tent area. no fires are allowed (added by manager 11 sep 2013)
This is a bit of the grassed area where tents can be pitched (added by manager 11 sep 2013)

  • Biker site by a café bar, open since the 1970s
  • Café open daily with weekly and weekend biker meets
  • Sunday roast, weekly carvery and licensed bar
‘Run by bikers for bikers’ goes the tagline of the roaringly popular Squires Café Bar in Selby, North Yorkshire, which has been rallying – and fortifying – biker troops since the 1970s. Bike and club meets, regular events and live music, an on-site bike shop and a once-monthly Autojumble to pick up secondhand bike gear have all been lined up over the years by owners Harry and Sue, who ran the biker-friendly Squires Milk Bar at Sherburn-in-Elmet before moving here. Café prices at Squires are cheap as chips (which you can have with gravy and stuffed inside a giant Yorkshire pud); for something a bit posher, a carvery of the café’s own farm-reared Aberdeen Angus is available for Sunday roast and on Thursday evenings; and for pints/events, a licensed bar and an events room for hire are available too. Squires Café Bar is open seven days a week in summer, but it’s on Wednesdays and weekends that regulars roar up: Wednesdays following the local biker meet tradition started by Harry and Sue in the 1960s, and weekends for meets, charity events, live gigs and general lounging about in leathers. To preserve the grass areas of the site, the owners allow the use of off-ground barbecues, but not one that will damage the grass. Campfires are not allowed.

Site type

Tent pitches 20
Touring caravan pitches 32
Motorhome pitches 32
Open all year
Please note
  • Under 18s must be accompanied by their parents or legal guardians.
  • Please note the electric hook-ups for touring pitches are 16-amp and token-operated. Tokens can be bought from the café for £5 each. Showers are also token operated and each £1 token lasts for approximately 3 minutes. The indoor skate ring is open Tuesday to Sunday, 3pm-7pm, priced at £3 per person for half an hour.

Languages spoken

English

Pitch types & availability

Reviews

90%

would recommend this site to a friend

89%

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Only showing reviews for the last 30 months.

Might be ok for a group booking

Overall 2/10
Location 6
Value for money 2
Accommodation No rating
Facilities / Activities No rating
Customer service No rating
Child friendliness No rating
Cleanliness 6
Wifi No rating
Anonymous The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Motorcycle and tent only non-electric grass tent pitch (no cars)

Liked: Coffee was ok

Disliked: Booked in by a not so pleasant young lady who didn't give exact direction to where I was supposed to go. Luckily there was a camper on hand who advised me the place I should be going. After setting up had a tour of the toilet block and shower's. Which in my opinion was clean but out dated and very under sized for a camp that has the capacity of potential campers that it has. I was aware of a train line very close (thanks to a Previous rating that I read) but what I wasn't aware of is that they sound a Horn every time they go past until late at night. That aside the one thing that really did me in was the Guard dogs that barked the hole of the night with no intervention by anyone apart from the very frustrated shout by myself. So this left me very tired with having hardly any sleep what so ever. The next day I headed straight home rather than carrying on with a journey I had planned to do. It might be a popular place for bikers to meet. But my experience as a biker was not great.

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Excellent site

Overall 10/10
Location 10
Value for money 10
Accommodation 8
Facilities / Activities 10
Customer service 10
Child friendliness 8
Cleanliness 8
Wifi 10
michelle b. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric optional hardstanding and grass touring pitch

Liked: Easy booking in good size pitch toilets clean food in the cafe was amazing and the staff were great overall great place to stay will return in the future

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Me and my son stayed here we love motorbikes I traveled down…

Overall 10/10
Location 10
Value for money 10
Accommodation 10
Facilities / Activities 10
Customer service 10
Child friendliness 10
Cleanliness 10
Wifi 10
Carl H. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Motorcycle and tent only non-electric grass tent pitch (no cars)

Liked: Me and my son stayed here we love motorbikes I traveled down from Scotland on the Friday night and met my son the Saturday morning and stayed Saturday night here there's quite a lot to do in the area if you walk into sherburn in elmet

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Beautiful place…

Overall 10/10
Location 10
Value for money 10
Accommodation 10
Facilities / Activities 10
Customer service 10
Child friendliness 10
Cleanliness 10
Wifi 10
Anonymous The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Motorcycle and tent only non-electric grass tent pitch (no cars)

Liked: Beautiful place

Recommend to friends Visit again

Best Campsite in England.…

Overall 10/10
Location 10
Value for money 10
Accommodation 10
Facilities / Activities 10
Customer service 10
Child friendliness 10
Cleanliness 10
Wifi 10
Anonymous The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Motorcycle and tent only non-electric grass tent pitch (no cars)

Liked: Best Campsite in England.

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Such a beautiful Yorkshire campsite.…

Overall 10/10
Location 10
Value for money 10
Accommodation 10
Facilities / Activities 10
Customer service 10
Child friendliness 10
Cleanliness 10
Wifi 10
Anonymous The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Motorcycle and tent only non-electric grass tent pitch (no cars)

Liked: Such a beautiful Yorkshire campsite.

Disliked: Nothing

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Perfect place…

Overall 10/10
Location 10
Value for money 10
Accommodation 10
Facilities / Activities 10
Customer service 10
Child friendliness 10
Cleanliness 10
Wifi 10
Anonymous The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Motorcycle and tent only non-electric grass tent pitch (no cars)

Liked: Perfect place

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Everything…

Overall 10/10
Location 10
Value for money 10
Accommodation 10
Facilities / Activities 10
Customer service 10
Child friendliness 10
Cleanliness 10
Wifi 10
Melissa J. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Motorcycle and tent only non-electric grass tent pitch (no cars)

Liked: Everything

Recommend to friends Visit again

Very good

Overall 10/10
Location 10
Value for money 10
Accommodation 10
Facilities / Activities 10
Customer service 10
Child friendliness 10
Cleanliness 10
Wifi No rating
Lee H. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric optional hardstanding and grass touring pitch

Liked: Easy access and helpful staff

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Clean facilities, friendly staff

Overall 10/10
Location 10
Value for money 10
Accommodation 10
Facilities / Activities 10
Customer service 10
Child friendliness 10
Cleanliness 10
Wifi No rating
Dean H. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric optional hardstanding and grass touring pitch

Liked: Grat site, hassle free and dog friendly.

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Features

Leisure on site

Bar or club house

Cycle hire

Evening entertainment

Fishing

Fitness centre

Games room

Indoor swimming pool

Kids' club

On-site restaurant/cafe

Outdoor swimming pool

Play area

TV room

Take away

Tennis

Watersports

Amenities on site

Bath available

Car parking by pitch/unit

Composting toilet

Disabled facilities

Dog park

Drying room

Food shop

Free wifi

Ice pack freezing

Internet access

Launderette

Parent & baby washroom

Pick-up from public transport

Portable toilet

Pub toilets

Public telephone

Shower available

Toilet block

Washing-up area

Wifi

Groups welcome

D. of E. welcome

Family friendly

Motorcycle friendly

Rallies welcome

Single-sex groups welcome

Student groups welcome

Rules

Barbecue provided

Barbecues allowed

Campfires allowed

Commercial vehicles allowed

Dogs allowed

Dogs allowed all year

Utilities

Charging facilities

Chemical disposal

Electric car charging point(s)

Gas cylinders available

Recycling available

Renewable energy

Nearby amenities

Bar nearby

Dog walk nearby

Public transport nearby

Type

Medium (26-50 pitches)

Nearby leisure

Restaurant nearby

Touring and motorhomes

Drainage hook-up points for tourers

Location

Squires Cafe Bar

Newthorpe Lane

Newthorpe

South Milford

Selby

North Yorkshire

England

LS25 5LX

Directions

Timezone

Europe/London BST (GMT+01:00)

GPS

53.78272°N
-1.28864°W

Route directions

Squires has a bus stop outside the main gates which can take you into Leeds city centre one way and drop off in Selby in the opposite direction (buses 402 and 403). To take the train from Leeds to Squires, travel to South Milford train station then catch the bus 402/403 to Squires. There is also a train station in Sherburn which will take you directly to York city centre train station.

Nearest transport

Coach
7.2 mi Bus Station Stand 1
10.2 mi York Street
10.2 mi Bus Stn
Rail
1.6 mi South Milford Rail Station
1.6 mi Micklefield Rail Station
2.5 mi Sherburn-in-Elmet Rail Station
Airport
16.3 mi Leeds Bradford International Airport
23.5 mi Robin Hood Doncaster Sheffield Airport
23.8 mi Robin Hood Doncaster Sheffield Airport

Please note: All distances on this page are calculated "as the crow flies" - please check actual distance depending on your mode of travel using the Get directions button above.

Local attractions

Squires Café Bar is well placed for the Yorkshire coast and both the Yorkshire Dales and Yorkshire Moors national parks, about 10 miles from Leeds city centre and with York within biking distance for a day trip. On fine and sunny days, ramble/bike along, fish from or take a boat out on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, the longest in Northern England, or take a picnic to the 1500 acres of parkland at Temple Newsam House and Farm, birthplace of Mary Queen of Scots’s caddish hubby Lord Darnley and listed as one of the top three museum sites in the country by an author in the know. Xscape Yorkshire is a nifty nearby option for rainy days or indoor evenings, as it’s crammed with activities such as Laserzone and adventure golf, restaurants, bars, clubs, a cinema and shops (the outlet shopping village Junction 32 is just opposite). Further afield, the Doncaster Dome has a seven-pool waterworld and the UK's only split level ice rink – you’ll have had loads of practice by then at the Squires Café Bar rink…

Must see

Lotherton Hall & Gardens 2.8 mi

Xscape Castleford 5.4 mi

Royal Armouries Museum 10 mi

The Henry Moore Institute 10.6 mi

Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills 12.1 mi

National Trust

Nostell Priory and Parkland 10 mi

Goddards Garden 13.2 mi

Treasurer's House 15 mi

Beningbrough Hall and Gardens 16.7 mi

East Riddlesden Hall 25 mi

Cycle routes

Find local routes on the National Cycle Network - over 12,000 miles of cycling routes.

Other

LEDSTON HALL AND PARK 1.6 mi

LOTHERTON HALL 2.7 mi

FAIRBURN INGS (CURRENT BOUNDARY FROM 12/04/1999) 3.1 mi

Battle of Towton, 1461 4.1 mi

FRIARWOOD VALLEY GARDENS 6.6 mi

Local events

  • Leeds Festival (Wednesday 21 August 2024 – Wednesday 21 August 2024)

    Wetherby, West Yorkshire 7.1 mi

  • York Early Music Festival (Saturday 6 July 2024 – Saturday 6 July 2024)

    York, North Yorkshire 15.1 mi

  • Harrogate Autumn Flower Show (Friday 13 September 2024 – Friday 13 September 2024)

    Ripon, North Yorkshire 15.6 mi

  • Great Yorkshire Show (Tuesday 9 July 2024 – Tuesday 9 July 2024)

    Harrogate, North Yorkshire 16.3 mi

  • Harrogate Spring Flower Show (Thursday 25 April 2024 – Thursday 25 April 2024)

    Harrogate, North Yorkshire 16.3 mi

Please note: All distances on this page are calculated "as the crow flies" - please check actual distance depending on your mode of travel using the Get directions button above.

Want to know more about camping in North Yorkshire?

  • Does Squires Cafe Bar have a swimming pool? No View all features
  • Is Squires Cafe Bar dog friendly? Yes View all features
  • What attractions are near Squires Cafe Bar? Squires Café Bar is well placed for the Yorkshire coast and both the Yorkshire Dales and Yorkshire Moors national parks, about 10 miles from Leeds city centre and with York within biking … Read more
  • When can I check in and check out of Squires Cafe Bar?
    Camping and touring
    Arrive:  12 p.m. –  10 p.m.
    Depart by:  11 a.m.
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  • How much does it cost to stay at Squires Cafe Bar? From £10 (for 1 night, 2 adults) - prices may change depending on your dates and party.