Cavendish Pavilion
Historical Environment Record No:
MYD36650
Parish:
Bolton Abbey
OS Grid Reference:
Dale:
Description
Cavendish Pavilion, Bolton Abbey MYD36650 (c) YDNPA, 2023
The Cavendish Pavilion on the Bolton Abbey estate was originally built in 1890 as a tea room. Refreshments were served to the thousands of visitors arriving by train who came to walk through the nearby woods. A photograph taken in the 1920s shows a rather spartan interior with long cloth-covered trestle tables and wooden stools and benches. When local historians Ella Pontefract and Marie Hartley visited it in the 1930s they described it as “…a café with a continental air”. It was recently enlarged.
Source:
Pontefract, E & Hartley, M (1988) Wharfedale. Otley: Smith Settle