Squires Cafe Bar

From £10 For 1 night, 6 adults 8.9 544 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

88%

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Only showing reviews for the last 30 months.

Top 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
Kurt G. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

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

Liked: Love squires so much the staff are incredibly welcoming and the food is amazing to good prices id recommend squires all day long to anyone been up many times before and il be up there many times in the future aswell

Disliked: Nothing

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Good all-round service, toilets, clean and accessible Food good staff, very helpful…

Overall 8/10
Location 10
Value for money 8
Accommodation 10
Facilities / Activities 10
Customer service 10
Child friendliness No rating
Cleanliness 10
Wifi No rating
Dick P. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric optional hardstanding and grass touring pitch

Liked: Good all-round service, toilets, clean and accessible Food good staff, very helpful

Disliked: Entrance and exit to the tour site is full of potholes from the front gate right up to the pitch. There are large holes. Some of these are quite deep and dangerous walking at night. You have to be very careful

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Good food , good value , good people..

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

Electric optional hardstanding and grass touring pitch

Liked: Nice laid back site , great brekky and dinner , plenty of dog walks and good clean facilities. £5.00 electric still hadn’t run out when we left after two nights about 40 hours!

Disliked: Nothing to dislike

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#1 Campsite In The UK.

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

Non-electric grass tent pitch

Liked: Toilet block, showers, Wi-Fi, pub, transport right outside, child friendly, dog friendly, safe, secure, friendly staff, clean, electricity, drinking water,

Disliked: Nothing To Dislike

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10/10

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

Non-electric grass tent pitch

Liked: Everything

Disliked: Rain (not Campsites Fault) 😂

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Poor

Overall 2/10
Location 2
Value for money 2
Accommodation 2
Facilities / Activities 2
Customer service 4
Child friendliness 2
Cleanliness 2
Wifi 2
Ian P. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric optional hardstanding and grass touring pitch

Liked: Nothing

Disliked: Ok if your into motorbikes & noise. On arrival had to drive through hundreds of bikers congregated in the car park drooling over other bikers machines. Stood in the large queue for the cafe to get to reception. Was placed on a touring pitch with electric at an an optional addition of £5 and showers operated with £1 tokens. Factor in these added extras I could of stayed on a decent site , this is more like a traveller's site. I would recommend that the profits from the greasy cafe put towards filling in the pot holes to the entrance of the touring site & upgrading the worn out facilities. Will not be staying here again.

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From the manager: Dear Ian. Thank you for your kind comments, your obvious disliking towards the members of the motorcycle community and their bikes is noted. I'm sorry you had to queue in the 'greasy' cafe to get to reception, if we had known in advance we could have created a fast lane to save you the inconvenience. If you had taken the time to read all the details you would have known about the pricing of electric etc etc which might have saved you the frustration you have shared with your comments on here. I do apologize about the approach road - although it hasn't stopped raining for the last 4 months and we have found it hard to get it repaired. There were over a dozen bookings this last weekend that all had an enjoyable stay with us, unfortunately you weren't one of them!

Lovely staff. Great stopping off point en route into Yorkshire

Overall 8/10
Location 10
Value for money 8
Accommodation 6
Facilities / Activities 6
Customer service 10
Child friendliness 6
Cleanliness 6
Wifi 2
Anonymous The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric optional hardstanding and grass touring pitch

Liked: Very friendly and helpful team. Good food and if you’re into motorbikes, great chat.

Disliked: No showers but frankly, I was only there for one night so it didn’t matter so much

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Really friendly staff, food was great and the atmosphere of the site…

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: Really friendly staff, food was great and the atmosphere of the site overall was amazing. Was busier than expected at this time of year but was an awesome stay as a biker.

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Perfect 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
Melissa J. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Non-electric grass tent pitch

Liked: Everything

Disliked: Nothing

Recommend to friends Visit again

Would stay again, friendly clean location

Overall 8/10
Location 8
Value for money 10
Accommodation 8
Facilities / Activities 8
Customer service 10
Child friendliness 6
Cleanliness 6
Wifi 4
Anonymous The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Non-electric grass tent pitch

Liked: Was a nice quiet location besides when we got there a dog was barking all night long and it’s extremely close to a railway line where trains run all night long but staff were friendly and was worth the stay cafe food and drinks were spot on. Toilets near by, washing up station available too.

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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 GMT (GMT+00:00)

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.