Upstairs, Downstairs
Bed & Breakfast
3 Elm Grove
Burley in Wharfedale
01943 862567
07949 234698 (Mobile)

Built in 1881, Elm Grove is a row of 4-storey terraced houses, each designed as  "Upstairs, Downstairs" houses, with the servants working and relaxing in the three lower (cellar) rooms, and living in the three top-floor rooms. The owners, typically middle class solicitors, accountants or managers, were accommodated on the two middle floors.

The new railway line through Burley then served, as it still does, both Leeds and Bradford, allowing residents to work in the big city whilst actually living in rural bliss, for this was the age of steam, with large mills and factories pumping out great clouds of soot-filled smoke. The steam engines added to the atmosphere (literally and metaphorically), belching their way from the newly created commuter areas through to all parts of Yorkshire, and to London, of course.

The steam trains have gone, but the station still serves Leeds and Bradford, giving excellent connections to London's Kings Cross. The service to Ilkley is very popular with commuters, shoppers, tourists and hikers alike, although the trains are now electric. Everyone  savours the fresh, clean air blowing off the moors and whilst waiting on the platforms can listen to the song birds sitting in the high branches of the surrounding trees.

Elm Grove is literally a five minute stroll from the station, and a leisurely 10 minute walk from the centre of Burley.