Squires Cafe Bar

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Hardstanding pitches
Hardstanding pitches
This is one of the many views
This is another part of the grass tent area. no fires are allowed
This is a bit of the grassed area where tents can be pitched
The café, where we serve tea, coffee, food and other refreshments on a daily basis
Our function room and where thursday evening and sunday carvery are served
Function room bar
Token-operated electric hook-ups. these can be bought from the café for £5
1/200
This is one of the many views
This is another part of the grass tent area. no fires are allowed
This is a bit of the grassed area where tents can be pitched

  • 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.

Campground type

Tent sites 20
Caravan sites 32
RV & Motorhome sites 32
Open all year
Opens
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 token operated and each £1 token lasts approximately 3 minutes.

Languages spoken

English

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0 children
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Reviews

8.5

Overall rating from 541 Pitchup.com customers

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Location
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Value for money
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Accommodation
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Facilities / Activities
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Customer service
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Child friendliness
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Cleanliness
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Wifi
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Budget/backpacker

87% would recommend this campground to a friend

86% would stay here again

What customers say

A favourite with bikers, the vibe's friendly & staff are a great help. Sites are usually roomy & well-planned. The cafe gets a thumbs-up for tasty, affordable grub. Facilities are okay but some reckon they're a bit old-fashioned, especially the loos. Trains and the odd event can get a bit noisy.

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Arrival date (latest first)

Staff were lovely food and drinks…

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10 out of 10
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Mandy B. 1 review

Motorcycle and tent only unpowered grass tent site (no cars)

Liked Staff were lovely food and drinks good campsite was fab

Recommend to friends Visit again

It was really great, able to…

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9 out of 10
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Anonymous

Motorcycle and tent only unpowered grass tent site (no cars)

Liked It was really great, able to keep the tent in the shade for most part near the trees, area was flat, food from the cafe amazing and staff really lovely.
Facilities for toilets during the night clean...looking forward to rock n bike show

Disliked Had 2 campers either side of us made it clear about 4 hrs after we arrived that they expected just them to have the tree line shade, were quite unkind so spoiled it a bit for us.

Recommend to friends Visit again

Cheap n cheerful…

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6 out of 10
Location
 5
Value for money
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Facilities / Activities
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Customer service
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Child friendliness
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Cleanliness
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Wifi
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 Warren s. 1 review

Unpowered grass tent site

Liked Cheap n cheerful

Disliked No kids facility like a play area

Recommend to friends Visit again

Close to amenities…

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7 out of 10
Location
 7
Value for money
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Facilities / Activities
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Customer service
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Child friendliness
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Wifi
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 Philip S. 1 review

Power optional concrete and grass caravan site

Liked Close to amenities

Disliked Trains

Recommend to friends Visit again

Fantastic spot

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9 out of 10
Location
 10
Value for money
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Facilities / Activities
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Customer service
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Child friendliness
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Wifi
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 Charlotte E. 1 review

Unpowered grass tent site

Liked What a fantastic place to camp! We went due to it being so close to the festival at Slam Dunk. Easy to find, so much space to pitch our tents, has a water tap close by, toilets, good sized showers and a pub with food on site with really fantastic motorbikes to eye up! Staff were friendly.

Disliked I would say upon checking in we had a bit of a wait & did have to ask quite a lot of questions so I think being given brochures and a lot of information on hand instead of us having to bombard with questions.

Recommend to friends Visit again

Ruined by other selfish people and toilets need cleaning

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2 out of 10
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Value for money
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Customer service
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Child friendliness
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Cleanliness
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Wifi
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Anonymous

Unpowered grass tent site

Liked Enjoyed watching all the bikes, spent time in the sun and the cafe was serving some nice food.

Disliked Toilet block was dirty with faeces on the toilet seats. Family/friends with children camping in two tents, one lady, Kirsty, kept the majority of the campsite up from 1am and was still going at it when we left (early because we had enough of her) at 7am. Crying, screaming, attempting to drive drunk and shouting at her husband/about her personal life. A few others told her to be quiet around 3am as she’s woken others children up and she told them to f**k off. Behaviour like this shouldn’t be tolerated on campus sites and she should be ashamed to have gotten in that state with her children camping!

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A biker must

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10 out of 10
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Wifi
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Anonymous

Motorcycle and tent only unpowered grass tent site (no cars)

Liked Everything. Staff are amazing and so friendly and helpful.
Food is great, toilets are clean and showers are warm

Disliked Nothing

Recommend to friends Visit again

Customer service was amazing, facilities and…

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Wifi
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Kirsty D. 2 reviews

Unpowered grass tent site

Liked Customer service was amazing, facilities and food were top notch, the price overall was great. Couldn't complain about anything at all. The site was clean and looked after. Definitely worth it, will be visiting again soon and more often.

Disliked Could have something for young children to do, like a park.

Recommend to friends Visit again

The place the bikes and the…

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10 out of 10
Location
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Value for money
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Wifi
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 Paul B. 2 reviews

Power optional concrete and grass caravan site

Liked The place the bikes and the people

Recommend to friends Visit again

Great stay

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10 out of 10
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Customer service
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Wifi
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Joanne H. 1 review

Power optional concrete and grass caravan site

Liked Atmosphere and cafe bar

Recommend to friends Visit again

Features

Dogs allowed

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 site/unit Composting toilet Dog park Drying room Food shop Free wifi Ice pack freezing Internet access Laundry 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 Dump point 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 sites)

Nearby leisure

Restaurant nearby

Touring and motorhomes

Drainage hook-up points for caravans

Location

Squires Cafe Bar

Newthorpe Lane

Newthorpe

South Milford

Selby

North Yorkshire

England

LS25 5LX

Directions

Timezone

Europe/London +0100 (GMT+01:00)

GPS

53.78272°N
1.28864°W

Nearest transport

Coach
11.6 km Bus Station Stand 1
16.3 km York Street
16.4 km Bus Stn
Rail
2.5 km South Milford Rail Station
2.6 km Micklefield Rail Station
4 km Sherburn-in-Elmet Rail Station
Airport
26.3 km Leeds Bradford International Airport
37.9 km Robin Hood Doncaster Sheffield Airport
38.3 km 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 4.5 km

Xscape Castleford 8.8 km

Royal Armouries Museum 16 km

The Henry Moore Institute 17.1 km

Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills 19.5 km

National Trust

Nostell Priory and Parkland 16 km

Goddards Garden 21.3 km

Treasurer's House 24.2 km

Beningbrough Hall and Gardens 26.9 km

East Riddlesden Hall 40.2 km

Cycle routes

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

Other

LEDSTON HALL AND PARK 2.6 km

LOTHERTON HALL 4.3 km

FAIRBURN INGS (CURRENT BOUNDARY FROM 12/04/1999) 5 km

Battle of Towton, 1461 6.6 km

FRIARWOOD VALLEY GARDENS 10.6 km

Local events

  • Leeds Festival (Thursday 27 August 2026 – Thursday 27 August 2026)

    Wetherby, England 11.4 km

  • Great Yorkshire Show (Tuesday 14 July 2026 – Tuesday 14 July 2026)

    Harrogate, England 26.2 km

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.

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Frequently asked questions

  • 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 caravan
    Arrive:  noon –  8 p.m.
    Depart by:  11 a.m.
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  • How much does it cost to stay at Squires Cafe Bar? From $18.83 (for 1 night, 2 adults) - prices may change depending on your dates and party.