An exclusive 30 bedroom luxury castle hotel.

With 4 Red Stars (Inspector's Choice) and 3 Rosettes awarded by the AA for excellent facilities, high levels of service and quality of cuisine, this is one of the highest rated hotels 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 the beautiful Yorkshire countryside.
 
Lavishly furnished, this is a unique opportunity to enjoy a stately home experience, combining the traditional warmth of a family home with all the modern creature comforts of a contemporary hotel. Each of the 30 spacious bedrooms is individually designed, with a choice of views across the gardens, lake, parkland or gatehouse.

Award winning cuisine is served in the sumptuously furnished dining room, with an emphasis on the seasonal produce sourced from the hotel's four acre walled garden and surrounding estate. The restored Georgian stables are home to the state of the art Cookery School, run by celebrity chef Rosemary Shrager with a wide range of day and residential courses running throughout the year.

Rosemary Shrager, the ebullient and vivacious chef, has previously worked for Pierre Koffman at Tante Claire and also with Jean Christoffe Novelli. She is passionate about food and teaches with an infectious enthusiasm. "Her passion for the subject and desire to impart her knowledge, which she does with warmth and verve, cannot fail to fire those fortunate enough to be her pupils". She has run courses previously at Amhuinnsuidhe Castle on the Hebrides and, since 2003, at Swinton Park.

She enjoys a global following as a TV celebrity chef, starring in Rosemary Castle Cook and Rosemary on the Road for Channel Five, Rosemary Queen of the Kitchen for the USA Discovery Channel, Ladettes to Ladies for ITV, and as a judge in Soapstar Superchef for Granada. Her most recent series, filmed here at Swinton Park, is ITV's Rosemary Shrager's School for Cooks, with the second eight part series to be broadcast towards the end of 2008.