White Swan in Hambleton

Lovely local pub with a excellent food, beer and friendly staff

food was great. Excellent atmosphere. Met my hiking friends there .

Very nice, simple menu. Tasty food. Good beer. Friendly staff. We had to book and say what we would eat in advance and were only allowed to eat at 18.00

Went out into the pub from the campsite... only two local guys were in there (including the owner). Had a great evening there... popped in and felt very welcome. Thank you. 4.50£ for a Pint? can't find that anywhere else apart from Wetherspoons...

Lovely food and great service, try the gooseberry and apple treacle tart!

Fantastic night's accommodation on C2C walk. Great beer, Fantastic food and lovely room. The landlord is extremely friendly and chatty. Totally recommended.

Friendly staff and, best of all, is the quality of the food. The Beef Pie was superb. Full of flavour, generous size.

Just popped in for a drink... Nice pint of bitter.

Love this place. Simple pub with a really good menu and food. I had the fish pie, a couple craft beers and the dessert which actually might be my favorite, apple and gooseberry crumble tart with custard. Bangin'. The locals are great crack and super friendly. A quick stop in a pub ended up in a longer night than expected but is one of the highlights of our coast to coast trek. Danby Wiske and the white swan are a must stop!

Had dinner on the C2C while staying in Ashfield House. Very good food and service!

It was reasonably priced. The room was quite cramped with a tiny bathroom, but at least we had one others in hotel were sharing . It was very basic accommodation. We arrived around 2.30 but were unable to access accommodation until 4pm, with everyone trying to check in at same time. The food was good, and the service was very efficient.

Lovely welcome, good food, well run, good clean room.

Lovely place with great staff .

Cozy pub with delicious food, especially the lamb liver, super and quick service.

I had a great experience at the White Swan. Excellent friendly service. Food was excellent. The selection of real ale was very good. Prices were about average.

Very friendly staff and great food. Walkers on the coast to coast path, having meals and drinks, provided a lovely atmosphere too

The rooms are simple but clean. Just what an walker needs. There was an friendly girl invite to the hotel and bar. Good tasted cold beer when arrived.Fantastic food at the evening. Nice women served the breakfast at the morning. Nice idea to leave the sticks and boots downstairs. Actually they dried the boots in front of a fan.

Why is someone this rude and grumpy running a pub?! No customer service at all. This pub could be a little goldmine with the right landlord. Don't bother, even the beer was warm.

Don't go here. You're not welcome. Go to the campsite near the church where there are spare tents and you will be warmly welcomed whatever time of day you arrive. It's not a good experience at the White Swan despite it being the only place to eat in the village. The landlord has no customer service skills at all. We three senior experienced walkers were made to feel like children when we arrived. His instructions are extreme and the way he speaks is rude. After dinner we asked for coffee but were brusquely told he couldn't possibly serve us coffee and that we could only have drinks from the bar. The portions of food can only be described as mean - breakfast was one small tomato, one tiny fried egg and one small sausage. The atmosphere with other walkers at dinner was however it's saving grace. Great cameraderie. Hence the one star. Wish someone else would take this pub over.

The draft beer was great indeed. But, the feel of this "Pub" is not really comfy. There was no music (?), and the landlord looked more like he wanted to close soon... not a place where you'll have another pint.

Nice pub, decent menu. You have to order the food before 5pm and then it's cooked and ready to serve from 6.30. I had the liver and onions with veg and gravy. It was tasty. The veg cooked well. The gents opposite me had the pie which looked really good as well. They said it was. Pavlova for dessert. Nice, fresh. I don't drink any more, but there was a good selection of local ales as well.

Go somewhere else. The owner is off on some little power trip. He gives you orders as you arrive and woe betide you if you don't obey, without question. He then takes pleasure in doing little things that you don't realise at the time but are dreadful. Eg. When pouring my beer he left it to settle while I paid and then quietly topped it up from a glass he had already taken a swig out of! This was not the worst that he did. My dinner was slop on a plate which had to be chosen and ordered on arrival and then served at 6pm. He was rude, abrupt and offensive to other walkers as they arrived as well. He relies on the walkers for his income and he treats them appallingly. The sooner there is a new proprietor the better. The only reason I gave one star is because none was not an option.

Lord Steve, good shepherd, shone light from afar We staggered right into the welcoming bar The 4pm crowd all silent and dazed No hurry no scurry, just hungry and fazed, ‘Roll up, dear sheep, put your Boots 🥾 by the fire’ ‘Sign up ✍️ for din, Brek n plunch, we require’ Soon curled in my pen, no body, no mind.. Relaxing, recharging, all comfy and kind, The hottest of baths, twisted ankle all wrapped, Aubergine Chilli, & nightly all napped, Delectably egged up & mushed up with bacon Renewed and refreshed, if I’m not mistaken

Stopped for a drink at the end of a days walk on the coast to coast route.

On Coast to Coast. Opens at 4pm daily. Nice beers.

If you're walking the coast to coast you can't go wrong here. Excellent food and service. I highly recommend!!

Says dog friendly but we had the feeling from the moment we walked in that the landlord would have preferred our dogs not be there at all. Food was ok (have to pre-book) and beer was good, but it was nearly empty and not a single local was in there. Possibly says it all.

Brilliant. Best pub on the coast to coast. Lovely people, lovely locals. Lovely beer and food.

Nice country pub with great food and real ales. Nice polite and helpful staff.

Great good and friendly people. I enjoyed my dinner there a lot.

Lovely welcome and gorgeous food! The camping field is secluded and picturesque, and the ground is like butter.

Excellent food and decent beer. Unusual booking system means that you must order food in advance. Stocks snacks, compeed etc for walkers

This pub is excellent. The landlord and landlady are a lovely and very hospitable couple who made us feel very welcome. The food was delicious and wholesome, proper Yorkshire grub. The beer was also great and at a very good price. We camped for two nights at this pub and would definitely stay again. The facilities are basic and affordable, and just what we needed on our trip through the area. Would recommend.

The reviews do not do the pub justice. Excellent location for the C2C, great food and good location directly on the trail, this pub is easily overlooked. Phone ahead if hiking during low season to make sure it's open.

I nearly did not go into this pub having read the previous reviews. As I stepped into the village after a 20 mile walk (coast to coast), they opened their doors unexpectedly As you would expect this time of year it is down season and business out in this part of the countryside don't operate the same as peak season. They offered me a seat and service immediately, and explained that you have to really book ahead this time of year to get food, and probably wouldn't usually open for business until around 7 or 8 pm (for locals I'm guessing) , however I was lucky and someone else booked ahead meaning I got served as well. I got offered a place to camp locally (as it was off season) I had an absolutely divine meal (although I had to wait, I was informed at the beginning that it is off season times tend to be longer) although under construction the shower facilities were modern, spacious and very clean (I didn't touch the walls when showering either). They sell home made coast to coast badges and medals for a very reasonable price (I bought 1) Given the opportunity I would not pass this place, I got chatting to the residential barman Kevin and the landlord steeve and his wife and they were most pleasant and sociable You can see they have invested a great deal into this pub and it should be appreciated. If I have a problem with a service I tend to take it up with the person providing as I tend to get a good response. Alternatively you can keep your mouth shut and be a keyboard warior to nearly no effect.

Had a meal there last night. Staff friendly and food good. Due to low number of visitors at the moment they ask you order food when you arrive in the village with dinner at 6.30pm. Some of the recent reviews maybe lack some understanding of running a pub of this type. However, we had a very pleasant evening, I hope other visitors do too.

They only seem to take to people like themselves. Which is a bit weird as they proclaim their socialism while refusing to pay their restaurant staff minimum wage.

Nasty people who need people skills would never return to this pub again

Extremely unwelcoming - find somewhere else to stay. Our experience was shockingly similar to the previous person’s 1 star review. We arrived here to camp after an extremely long day on the Coast to Coast. We had phoned ahead to book but on arriving they didn’t have any record of our order. They grudgingly showed us to the small, messy camping field behind the pub and then immediately asked us to pre-order food for dinner. They didn’t give us any time to rest, shower or pitch our tent. And they wouldn’t show us the menu, and decided our meal would be steak pie because that’s what they’d “prepared in advance”. They gave us 10 minutes to pitch our tent before we had to come in for dinner, even though we were obviously tired and wanted a shower first. Our meal was fine, but clearly just bought and reheated, with instant gravy and plain boiled veg on the side. The bar man was, as others have mentioned, drinking (a lot!) behind the bar and all the staff were very unfriendly. (The young bar maid was was friendly though!) The camping facilities are extremely limited - the toilets available in the night are the gents toilets as the ladies toilets are inside. We’d recommend camping at the other campsite in the village which looks much nicer! Good luck!

Find somewhere to camp instead. To elaborate: We arrived having walked 24 miles of the Coast to Coast walk, and I was desperate to just get my boots off and get in the shower. The landlady, Gill, was doddering at best, and refused to let me sit down, followed me as I tried to do as she asked, and could not understand the state I was in. We were forced to order our dinner before we were allowed upstairs, and were allowed just half an hour for the two of us to shower and change before we had to be back down for dinner. They are clearly not walkers, and don’t know the local area or the coast to coast walk very well by the sound of things. The food was quite obviously from the local butchers, two hard boiled scotch eggs, a steak pie which while it was nice it was just plopped on the plate and clearly not made in-house, no choice of sides (plain new potatoes weren’t particularly inspiring) and my partner’s lasagne had come straight out of the microwave. Drinks were fine but the barman seemed drunk, and was drinking beer while serving. The breakfast was also pretty lack luster. For £143 for the meal and one night’s stay (I could pay less than that in London!) I feel totally ripped off. I also didn’t appreciate the landlady diagnosing me with sunstroke??? Very strange. Don’t stay here, literally just camp you’ll feel much more at peace.

A very quaint English village pub in Danby Wiske. Good range of beers and food is served. Popular with Coast to Coast walkers as directly on route.

Nipped in with the kids for a drink before the bonfire. Friendly helpful staff, nice homely pub.

Any sandwich you like, providing it's a combination of ham, cheesy, pickle, or tomato. Lovely and relaxing.

This was just a miserable place as the owner just did care about the customers. He argued with us and was the most unfriendly innkeeper we have ever seen. This is just the wrong profession for this man. If you can skip this city and inn, your visit would be much better.

De uitbater was speciaal, maar de kok die voor hem werkte was uitmuntend

Pleasent reception. Good food and drink.

Great beer, lovely day to sit outside

I was just camping there during coast to coast walk.

Warm welcome, open fire and 4 real ales to sample.

Danby Wiske is a cute hamlet between Richmond and the Blue Bell in Inglesby Arncliff. The White Swan has ones undevided attention when doing the Coast To Coast walk. Great staff fantastic beer and grub.

Very good food and very good black sheep

Warm, spacious and comfortable room. Lovely dinner with fresh local ingredients. Breakfast was OK but not special

Came here partly due to hearing about the grumpy barman. He was ok, pleasant enough. Just didn't smile at all! The food is nice but overpriced. Staff on the whole are great.

We were the first visitors of the day having walked from Richmond that morning. The landlord was “quirky” but quite friendly. We booked for dinner but had to take an early 6pm slot as they run a system of first to book has the 6pm slots and each subsequent booking is at progressively later 10 minute intervals. The other barman seems to have an odd personality for bar work but served our drinks and took our food order ok. It’s the only pub in the village. Food was nice and reasonable value.

Good pub on the Wainwright Coast to Coast trail.

Great stop while on the Coast to Coast. The barman was very helpful and accommodating for those who hadn't booked a table. The room was clean and comfortable and the evening meal was very tasty. Could have done with an earlier breakfast as we had a 20 mile day next day and really wanted to make an early start.

Great local drinks on offer as well as the usual, great service, great in the summer to sit outside.

Great beer. Landlord appeared a little moody. Maybe having a bad day. Good for calling in if your on the coast to coast. Will give it another try in a few weeks while passing.

Unfriendly place. Has so much potential but sadly missed.

It was closed for the winter but the website didn't say it was. Nevermind.

Camped here and felt very unwelcome and unwanted... It was a bizarre experience given that place relies on hikers for business.

On tour some time ago we enjoyed a tasty lunch there, but upon return a few months later the place was boarded-up. A villager told us that the landlord was on the run, hounded out of town. Sadly we had to tolerate second best elsewhere.

Great drink selection and caters well for coast to coast walkers. You can even buy a tooth brush or sun screen or sandwiches. The landlord is very friendly and we had a good stop on our walk here.

Good accommodation, staff fantastic, food delicious