Wallace’s favourite crumbly Wensleydale, served with a delicious slice of fruit cake, “that’ll do ya lad”! On a rainy day like this, we all need a bit of comfort food to cheer us up…

And if you take one of those seats whilst enjoying a coffee or tea and homemade cake you get a wonderful view of the village. We’re enjoying the sun while it’s visiting, although it means you’ll currently find our chocolate treats in the back of the fridges in store and we’ve stocked the ice cream […]

It’s cherry season and they’re in store now! The last few days are also definitely ice-cream season too… Why not combine the two by making a simple cherry compote to enjoy with ice cream as a light and tasty pud? A simple way to create the compote is to stone your cherries, careful as they […]

So here at Ilmington Community Shop, we’ve decided to play it safe through the summer. We will only be allowing up to four shoppers inside and we ask everyone to please keep sanitising their hands and respecting personal distance. In the cafe, you won’t have to track and trace, but we will leave the QR […]

So many of our visitors have a deep connection with Ilmington. Perhaps none more so than Alan Finch, who was evacuated to the village 80 years ago when he was only six. “I was here for probably two years and back home in Coventry for 1943 when the bombing raids had slackened off,” he tells […]