The Talbot Hotel has recently been fully restored. Classic British design now meets traditional values of comfort and unobtrusive service for an elegant hotel with 26 bedrooms, landscaped gardens and a great restaurant.
We are in the heart of the North Yorkshire market town of Malton, 20 minutes from the city of York. Visitors here are spoilt for choice. Compiling a list of 101 things to do proved easy. You won't, of course, have time to do all of these things in a single stay – so there is only one on which we insist: relax and let us look after you.
Originally built in the early 17th century as a hunting lodge and trading as an Inn since 1740, the Talbot Hotel has both led and reflected the fashions and enthusiasms of Malton people.
The abiding local passion for horse-racing is ever-present. It's said that the hotel was purchased and enlarged by Thomas Watson-Wentworth Earl of Malton in 1739 in order to provide accommodation 'for the Nimrods who congregated at Malton for hunting, racing and coursing'. To this day, those trades associated with horse-racing make a significant contribution to the life and economy of Malton.
From the early days of the hotel until the start of the First World War, Malton was a well-known spa resort, and people were encouraged, not least by Dr Granville's 'Spas of England', to drink up to four pints of the local saline-chalybeate spring water, 'highly efficacious in many chronic diseases'. The gardens of the Hotel were designed, in part, to provide a place for spa visitors to walk and rest.
With a fine-dining restaurant and a commitment to supporting local producers, the current owners of the Hotel – the Fitzwilliam Estate – are proud to play a part in Malton's most recent development – as a destination for food lovers.
Sport. Health. Fine food. Three good reasons to visit the Talbot – then and now.
Facilities
The 2011 restoration of the Talbot Hotel was undertaken by all parties with a commitment to conservation using décor, fixtures and fittings appropriate to the building's history. We are delighted with the results of this, the more so to have achieved it without compromising on modern expectations of comfort and amenity.
- 26 bedrooms including doubles, twins, family, two suites and two rooms with four poster beds
- Restaurant and menus overseen by Executive Chef James Martin
- Elegant drawing room
- Bar, with informal lunch/dinner menu
- Private dining room for up to 70
- Meeting room for up to 92 delegates
- Landscaped gardens
- Secure gun storage
- Drying room
- Free hi-speed WiFi
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Dog friendly
The gardens and walkways too, have been the subject of meticulous restoration, with local stone materials, fruit and ornamental trees and a new wildflower meadow running down to the river.