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Lodge Yard is an award-winning conversion of historic stable buildings and is adjacent to the local pub, the Kings Arms, which featured in the James Herriot stories as The Drovers. The Yorkshire Dales is one of the UK’s best-loved National Parks. It is also one of the largest. Packed into this area is a fascinating variety of natural attractions – from rolling moors, spectacular limestone crags and the famous Three Peaks (of Ingleborough, Peny-Ghent and Whernside) to the awesome yawning cavern of Gaping Gill and friendly villages. Close to the centre of the National Park is Wensleydale and the small town of Askrigg – the Bond’s Yorkshire Dales home which was celebrated as ‘Darrowby’ in the popular TV series ‘All Creatures Great and Small’.

Properties

Lodge Yard is a listed 18th-century stable yard in the middle of the village, its oncederelict buildings now reconstructed to combine their original charm with contemporary utility.

Askrigg may be small; but it’s a thriving little place, with three pubs and a grocery/tea shop for basic provisions. The 'Village Kitchen' provides takeaway savouries and sweets (which can be pre-ordered).

Occupants of the site's 29 cottages and apartments enjoy communal use of a snooker room, a reading room and a clubhouse with pool table and bar billiards and, in the adjacent Kings Arms – a former coaching inn – a lovely old pub, a first-class restaurant, and en-suite rooms

Exclusive holidays for life

An initial payment from £5,000 and a quarterly fee of under £38 (that is around £150 a year), which can increase in line with but not exceed the Retail Price Index Excluding Mortgage Interest (RPIX), gives you access to all HPB’s holiday homes. For each HPB holiday, you will pay a no-profit user charge covering only property running and maintenance costs and use of on-site facilities. The average charge is the same throughout the year, and for a studio is around £360 a week and £540 for a two bedroom property. Larger properties are also available. After an initial charge of 25% your money is invested in a fund of holiday properties and securities.

The fund itself meets annual charges of 2.5% of its net assets at cost, calculated monthly. Your investment return is purely in the form of holidays and, as with most investments, your capital is at risk. You can surrender your investment to the company after two years or more (subject to deferral in exceptional circumstances) but you will get back less than you invested because of the charges referred to above, as well as other overheads and changes in the value of the fund’s properties and securities.

This advertisement is issued by HPB Management Limited (HPBM), the main UK agent and the property manager for HPB, authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, registered at HPB House, Newmarket, Sujolk, CB8 8EH. HPB is available exclusively through HPBM. HPB is issued by HPB Assurance Limited (HPBA) registered in the Isle of Man and authorised by the Financial Services Authority there. HPBM promotes only HPB and is not independent of HPBA. Holders of policies issued by HPBA will not be protected by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme if the company becomes unable to meet its liabilities to them but Isle of Man compensation arrangements apply to new policies.