Decided to have a drive to Staxton to have a look at this place as friends had been a few months earlier. On entering it looks like you have entered a victorian streetreally dark with sound effects playing in the background and all the shop fronts on either side. It has been built really well and is very effective.howeverit's very small indeed and some of the shops were empty and to let. The all year round xmas shop was closed ??.. the other shops were freezing cold (one shop owner was warming her hands on the light bulbs!!) I didn't realise how small the place was, we were back at the entrance in a flash (we were the only people in the place which made us feel slightly awkward!) We did stop in the 1940's tearoom for a drink and actually saw 3 other people in there !! There is a restaurant to let and it has a camp site attatched to it so I should imagine when those are up and running there will be more people about. It has potential to be somewhere really nice to visit with a little expansion..there is plenty of land around so surely it must be possible. The shops are tiny inside..one lady told us there is only one of each kind allowed so they have no competition as such.instead the complement each other. On the whole a nice little place .. would return a bit later into the year though!! read more