A Welcome VisitEngland award for RSPB Bempton Cliffs
RSPB Bempton Cliffs has scooped a coveted VisitEngland Visitor Attraction Accolade.
VisitEngland’s Accolades celebrate excellence within the visitor attraction sector and showcase those businesses in our VisitEngland Visitor Attraction Quality Scheme that go the extra mile to provide a high-quality day out.
This could be through a warm welcome, an engaging story, a delicious lunch or the overall visitor experience. Accolades are given for the following categories: Welcome, Best Told Story, Quality Food & Drink, Hidden Gem and Gold.
RSPB Bempton Cliffs earned a VisitEngland Welcome award.
The VisitEngland statement said: “Bempton Cliffs, on the spectacular Yorkshire coast, is home to one of the UK’s top wildlife spectacles. Around half a million seabirds gather here between March and August to raise a family on the towering chalk cliffs that overlook the North Sea.
“The huge white chalk cliffs at Bempton are impressive at any time of year. But visit between April and July, and you'll find them transformed into England’s largest seabird city. Here puffins, gannets, kittiwakes and guillemots live life on the edge. There are more gannets acrobatically diving into the deep here than anywhere else on mainland England.
“But it’s not all about the cliffs. In spring and summer corn buntings, skylarks and linnets breed in the grassland and scrub where land meets the sea, while kestrel and barn owls hunt under wide open skies, often joined in winter by short-eared owls.
“RSPB Bempton is part of the headland at Flamborough and inside the recording area of Flamborough Bird Observatory (FBO) which covers most of the headland. FBO update their sightings page every day. If you go here you can find out what has been seen at Bempton Cliffs and nearby. If you explore the site you can discover more about the FBO and other local areas that are good for birds.”
Unique Retreats at West End Farm at Ruston Parva (Self Catering) earned a VisitEngland ROSE Award.
The ROSE Awards recognise the accommodation providers across England who provide visitors with the warmest of welcomes. They celebrate the establishments where the owners, management and employees, irrespective of their star rating, style or type of accommodation, provide outstanding experiences for their customers.
VisitEngland director Andrew Stokes said: “England’s visitor attractions are first-class, and these accolades highlight why they deserve this recognition. The recipients of these awards provide an outstanding welcome, unparalleled food and drink offer and magical storytelling, making them integral to the high-quality tourism offer provided to domestic and international visitors.”