Wayside Farm

The cottage is excellently fitted out, in keeping with Muker's enchanting period feel, but with all the mod cons we might need (such as very efficient and easy-to-control heating, and three bathrooms).

Nice clear instructions too (a hint that wasn't quite clear: to adjust the temperature, you turn the ring on the thermostat as the instructions say; then you push in the middle of the ring to fix that new target temperature). Muker is just gorgeous. Quiet, on the intersection of lots of nice paths, but also alive as a village, with a silver band we heard practising one day, a good shop, an excellent cafe, and an equally excellent pub - both with great home-made food - a pleasant surprise in such a quiet village. We leave truly refreshed. Thanks ever so much to the owners, and to all the locals for allowing us to invade for the week!

Lovely cottage in a great location, charming village.

The cottage is well equipped and comfortable, great to come back to after a long walk in the beautiful Swaledale. Had all the equipment we needed to cook meals and also had lovely meals at the local pub. Great bedrooms with plenty of storage and very comfortable beds.

Lovely property in a great village beautifully kitted out, good quality beds, linen and kitchen appliances.

Cleanliness good in all important areas, could be a bit more thorough in the detail. But one big issue, the heating. We went in in a cold week in may, we returned from a wet, cold walk put the heating up to 20, looked 20 minutes later and it had been turned down by the owner to 18. I rang Sykes and complained, they were excellent. They called the owner and it remained at 20, the owner apparently said I had tried to reset the programme the previous day. I hadn’t, although I had called the caretaker about the heating the previous day as I was shocked on arrival after realising the owners controlled it. Particularly as I had checked with Sykes before booking that we had control of the heating! To conclude great cottage but please owners charge a bit more and give control of the heating to guests.

We really liked the cottage in all respects.

It is very well set up and equipped, and everything worked.