Local Produce & Handicrafts


Christmas Wreaths, hand made in Appleton Wiske. All priced at £10.

Home made Fruit Licquers. Nothing added – just fruit, gin and sugar. £4 a bottle (18.7 cl.)

  • Blackcurrant Gin – grown in Thirsk.
  • Blackcurrant Gin – grown in Appleton Wiske.
  • Green Gooseberry Gin – grown in Appleton Wiske.
  • Red Gooseberry Gin – grown in Appleton Wiske.
  • Redcurrant Gin – grown in Appleton Wiske.
  • Rhubarb Gin – grown in Appleton Wiske.
  • Sloe Gin – grown in Deighton.
  • Sloe Tsikoudia – grown  in Deighton, with Tsikoudia distilled by a family in Neo Horia, Crete.
  • Whitecurrant Gin – grown in Appleton Wiske.

For the first time ever we are giving people the opportunity to buy something really unique – hand crafted wood items made by a wood turner from Appleton Wiske, using Ficus Benjamina wood collected for us by a Maasai Warrior from Meserani, Tanzania.

These are exceptional items, and are to be truly treasured.

Retractable biros. £15 each.

Tea Candle Holders. £9 each.

Christmas Tree Pendants. £5 each.

The tea candle holders below are made from wood local to North Yorkshire. £9 each.

Woollen adult size slippers, hand knitted by 95 year-old Hilda from Stockton on Tees. £4 a pair.

Woollen children size slippers, hand knitted by 95 year-old Hilda from Stockton on Tees. £2 a pair.

We have a variety of original paintings, all produced in acrylic or water colour, on canvas, by an artist from Appleton Wiske. Given sizes are in centimetres, and where framed the size is the frame size. There are two collections, ‘The Forgotten Maasai’ and ‘Summer Meadows’.

Click on individual images for a better view.

The Forgotten Maasai

Summer Meadows

Christmas Knitted Dolls, hand made in Harrogate. All priced at £5.