Best spas in Yorkshire to have a truly sensational experience

Address: 1 Clifton, York YO30 6AA

Swinton Park Hotel

Best for: living the castle life

Originally owned by a Bradford wool merchant, SPH is a sumptuous, old-school English stately home resembling a castle, and it is part of the prolific Swinton Park Estate as seen on the BBC’s Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby series. There is parkland, lakes and gardens at the hotel to wander, but the estate itself stretches even further afield – 20,000 acres. Wensleydale, one of the loveliest (and one of…