A Hostel A Week

How about B for Boggle Hole, because I love that name, and the place, and the walk along the coast to Robin Hood’s Bay.

When YHA’s York, Scarborough and Hull Region opened a small, basic leased hostel in an old corn mill at Boggle Hole in 1937 they might not have imagined that it would be closed within three years but thriving over 80 years later.

At the end of that first year the Bay Mill hostel, as it was first called, was described in the annual report as rather primitive, but popular. Mr Harding was the first warden.

Rucksack Magazine for Midsummer 1937 could barely contain its enthusiasm for the new location… Read on

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  1. Very interesting historical account of one of the few iconic hostels remaining in the ever decreasing hostel patchwork Managed to find a bed there during our trek along the Cleveland Way last spring!

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