The Millings, Award Winning & Affordable Care
in The Beautiful Market Town of Bedale

The Millings offers you comfort, luxury and security in the heart of the beautiful Yorkshire Dales. With its much sought after 3 star Excellent rating from CQC, you are guaranteed the highest standards of care and quality of life.

Convenient Location

Set in the quaint old market town of Bedale the Millings is the ideal place to make your home in your later years. The nearby A1 makes visiting from the North or South simple while the home itself is just off the market square giving you easy access to all the local facilities.

Bedale is known as ‘the gateway to the dales’ an area of outstanding natural beauty, so enjoying the countryside & scenery is just a few minutes drive away.

Make the Millings Your Home from Home

With 36 spacious, comfortable and well appointed rooms all with ensuite, you’ll soon feel right at home. Each room has personalised styling and we’d love you to bring your treasured mementos and small items of furniture to make it even more homely.

Daily newspaper deliveries, your own television and your own telephone mean that you’ll always be able to keep in touch with friends and family and what’s going on in the world. Plus you’ll have the reassurance of our central nurse call system to immediately summon a member of staff should you ever need any assistance.

The home has a passenger lift to give you effortless access to the upper floor while all public areas have been designed in consultation with Occupational Therapists to ensure you can get about easily and confidently.

So, you can meet with your fellow residents and friends; take part in any of the many activities or simply to pop out to the garden or shops whenever you want.

Fine Cuisine

Meal times are something to savour at the Millings, especially with the fine cuisine served up by our highly talented Chef. You can look forward to meals freshly prepared in fine Yorkshire tradition and served in any one of four lounges, two lounge/dining rooms, one dining room or your own room – whichever suits you best. And, if you have any special dietary requirements, don’t worry. We’ll be happy to cater for them.

Luxury Facilities

We want your life with us to be as enjoyable and care free as possible. Relaxing couldn’t be easier with the range of lounges and sitting rooms inside the home.

If you prefer the outdoors you’ll find numerous peaceful and quiet sitting areas within the spacious grounds. Each has tables, chairs and sunshades so you can enjoy them in both spring and summer.

The home itself retains the timeless character of its 400 year old rectory origin, which combined with the stylishly redesigned interior give you all the modern facilities you’d expect from a luxury care home.

This includes our state of the art hydrospa where you can luxuriate in the soothing warm waters. You don’t even have to climb in as the hydraulic powered seat makes gliding in and out both effortless and safe.

And for a bit more pampering you can book a session with the beauty therapist, chiropodist or hairdresser who all visit regularly.

A full Range of Activities

We don’t know if it’s the Dales water or all the fun activities, but several of our residents are over 100 years old and still having the time of their lives. One of our residents Winnie, completed the Race for Life charity 5k challenge aged 103. Amazing!

Whatever you fancy you’ll always find lots of things to do here.

Our Activities co-ordinator Anthea was a finalist in the Great North Care Awards for best Ancillary Worker in the North of England so you can be sure she knows a thing or two about providing great activities. These include:

• Exercise classes
• Craft groups
• Flower arranging
• Baking ,quizzes
• Outdoor trips and walks
• Countryside outings in the local minibus

You can take part in all or none of the planned activities and Anthea will even create new activities tailored to suit your own hobbies and interests if you’d like.

Birthdays and seasonal holidays are our constant excuse for a party & social gathering to which family and friends are always invited. Indeed they are welcome anytime and will always find ample parking in the grounds and a pot of tea and coffee on the go on arrival.

For the independent minded a stroll onto Bedale High St opens up a world of possibilities. A full range of small shops, the library, church, local clubs, bank, post office, chemist and pub restaurant are all within easy walking distance. And if you’d prefer a little extra security and help we can always arrange for a member of staff to go with you.

Exceptional Levels of Care

With our 3 star ‘excellent’ rating and award winning status you can be assured of exceptional standards of care at the Millings every day of the year. We never use temporary agency staff as we want you to be cared for by people whom you know and trust and who know your needs and preferences.

Our staff are highly qualified and will be on duty should you need help anytime of the day or night. All staff members are committed to maintaining your dignity and independence and providing you with high standards of personal care in a supportive friendly & homely atmosphere.

Outside care is provided by the local doctor who makes weekly visits for routine matters along with the dentist, chiropodist and optician.

For medical matters you are of course welcome to keep your own GP or can use the services of the supporting Community Nursing Service and a GP of your choice.

What to Do Now

We really hope you’d like to make your home with us at the Millings so here’s what we suggest. The best way to see if the Millings is right for you is to come and visit us – we’d love to meet you and you are welcome any time.

So, to arrange a visit, request a detailed brochure or find out about a trial stay please contact Sandra Anderson on 01677 423635 or click here to send us an e-mail