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Yorkshire Tea Factory: Step Inside The Heart Of British Tea Production – Visit Now!

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• Nestled in the heart of the scenic Yorkshire Dales, the Yorkshire Tea Factory stands as a testament to the rich heritage and meticulous craftsmanship behind one of Britain’s most beloved tea brands.
• The final step in the journey is packaging and distribution, where the tea is carefully packed into distinctive Yorkshire Tea boxes and bags, ready to be enjoyed by tea lovers across the globe.

Yes, there is a nominal fee for the tour, which includes a guided visit to the factory and a complimentary cup of Yorkshire Tea.

Nestled in the heart of the scenic Yorkshire Dales, the Yorkshire Tea Factory stands as a testament to the rich heritage and meticulous craftsmanship behind one of Britain’s most beloved tea brands. With its iconic red brick facade and chimneys reaching towards the sky, the factory invites visitors to embark on a captivating journey into the world of Yorkshire Tea.

Unveiling the Secrets of Yorkshire Tea

Step inside the factory, and you’ll be greeted by the tantalizing aroma of freshly brewed tea, filling the air with a sense of warmth and comfort. As you wander through the production lines , you’ll witness the intricate process that transforms carefully selected tea leaves into the perfect cup of Yorkshire Tea.

From Leaf to Cup: The Art of Tea Making

The journey begins with the arrival of tea leaves , sourced from the finest tea gardens around the world. These leaves are then expertly blended, creating a unique and harmonious flavor profile that has become synonymous with Yorkshire Tea. The leaves are then carefully dried and cut, ensuring the perfect balance of strength and aroma.

The Magic of Brewing: A Delicate Dance of Time and Temperature

The next stage in the process is brewing, where the tea leaves are steeped in hot water, releasing their complex flavors and aromas. The temperature and duration of the brewing process are carefully controlled to ensure that each cup of Yorkshire Tea delivers a consistent and exceptional taste experience.

Drying and Cooling: Preserving the Essence of Flavor

Once the tea has been brewed, it is carefully dried and cooled, preserving the delicate flavors and aromas that make Yorkshire Tea so special. This process ensures that each cup of tea retains its freshness and quality, delivering a delightful experience with every sip.

Packaging and Distribution: Bringing Yorkshire Tea to the World

The final step in the journey is packaging and distribution, where the tea is carefully packed into distinctive Yorkshire Tea boxes and bags, ready to be enjoyed by tea lovers across the globe. From the factory in Yorkshire to homes and teacups around the world, the journey of Yorkshire Tea is one that spans continents and cultures.

A Taste of Yorkshire: The Perfect Cup

Whether you prefer it strong and invigorating or light and refreshing, there’s a Yorkshire Tea blend to suit every taste. Enjoy a steaming cuppa in the comfort of your own home, or savor it in the charming tea rooms located within the factory grounds.

A Glimpse into the History of Yorkshire Tea

The story of Yorkshire Tea began in 1886, when Charles Edward Taylor , a grocer from Harrogate, Yorkshire, embarked on a quest to create the perfect cup of tea. His unwavering dedication and passion for quality led to the creation of Yorkshire Tea, a brand that has since become a household name, synonymous with excellence and tradition.

A Memorable Visit: A Journey to Remember

Visiting the Yorkshire Tea Factory is an unforgettable experience that offers a glimpse into the world of one of Britain’s most cherished brands . From witnessing the intricate tea-making process to savoring a freshly brewed cuppa in the charming tea rooms, this journey is sure to leave a lasting impression on tea enthusiasts and curious travelers alike.

Popular Questions

• Can I book a tour of the Yorkshire Tea Factory?

Yes, guided tours of the factory are available for individuals and groups. Advance booking is recommended to secure your spot.

• What days and times are the tours available?

Tours are typically conducted on weekdays during specific time slots . Please check the Yorkshire Tea website for the latest schedule and availability.

• Is there a cost associated with the tour?
• Are there any age restrictions for the tour?

The tour is suitable for visitors of all ages, although children under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult.

• Can I purchase Yorkshire Tea products at the factory?

Yes, there is a factory shop where you can purchase a wide range of Yorkshire Tea products, including exclusive blends and limited-edition collections.

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Over the past five years Taylors of Harrogate has grown from being the fourth largest bagged black-tea producer in the UK to the third. We currently have 16% of the market, behind Unilever’s PG Tips brand and Tata’s Tetley brand.

Yorkshire Tea is our flagship tea brand and is produced at this 14,000m² site in Harrogate. It's no secret that the black tea market is declining [UK sales have fallen by 6% since 2010]. There are a lot of products out there to distract consumers, but our market share has been growing.

There’s been a lot of investment here to support that growth and to support the growth in other parts of our £150M turnover company, which makes speciality teas, coffee and products for Betty’s [the online shop and tea room].

The company was founded in 1886 by Charles Taylor in Leeds and was always a tea blender, until we started coffee production a little later on. Back then it was normal to blend tea to specific water types – hard and soft. I think we’re the only company in the black tea market to still do that.

I’ve been with Taylors for 14 years. I actually came here as a bit of a stop gap when I moved to the nearby town of Knaresborough with my then partner. The job as a production engineer came up, which is an advanced operator role, and I was lucky enough to get it.

After 18 months in the job I applied for the duty manager role within the speciality tea department and was lucky enough to get that and I then progressed to factory manager.

A career in food (Return to top) ​ ​

A career in food manufacture wasn’t my original plan. I left school at 16 and worked for Associated Dairies in Leeds. Associated Dairies has since been bought by Arla. My first job was working in the fridge collating orders.

I didn’t start in the production side of things until I was in my late 20s when I got a job in quality assurance. It’s frustrating that a great career in food production was in front of me, but I didn’t decide on it until a little later on in my working life.

If I could go back and tell my younger self one thing, it would be not to be scared to pursue one route in the industry. There’s so much diversity within food manufacture. That’s also the advice that I would give to anyone starting out in the food and drink industry. I would say, don’t be scared to pursue one area as early as possible.

There are lots of different areas of manufacturing to pursue within Taylors. We process tea and coffee and have a combined annual throughput of about 17,000t a year.

The processes for tea and coffee are very different. When tea comes in to the factory it will already have been dried and ground at source, so we just blend it in drums.

Ethical sourcing and production (Return to top) ​ ​ ​

In Yorkshire Tea, there's Kenyan, Rwandan and Assam tea, which gives it that nice richness and strong flavour. Our tea is ethically sourced and comes from all over the world from suppliers we’ve had relationships with for years.

Once it’s been blended it will be packed into tea bags on an Ima machine at a rate of 2,000 bags a minute, and we can do a box of 80 tea bags, for example, about every 2.4 seconds.

Tea is then taken to the packing machine and fed into it by gravity using a dosing head. The head contains eight pairs of apertures and they measure out a tea bag size – 3.125g worth of tea into each bag.

The paper to form the bags is fed from one end of the machine and is spliced down the middle so that one side of the paper goes to the dosing head to collect the tea and then the other meets it. It is then sandwiched before going through a crimp that bonds the two sides together using 200°C heat. At that point, you’re left with a very long line of tea bags that get cut into pairs and boxed.

We’ve recently invested in a new Ima tea packer, which cost about £1.3M and will allow us to produce our three tea pack sizes – 80 bags, 160 bags and 240 bags – more easily as the changeover time is reduced. We worked with Ima to ensure we could produce the different pack sizes with just a simple changeover.

On the speciality side, we bought a third machine from Techno Mechanica, which we use for string in bag teas. We got the new one in January and have worked hard with Techno Mechanica on some modifications.

Because speciality teas are made from sugar-containing ingredients, when they go through the machine they start to caramelise and so we were getting problems with the dosing heads. As a result, Techno Mechanica provided us with a bespoke cooling system on the head which is working really well for us.

We'll be looking to retrofit that on the other two lines, but we're going to do a full trial run before we commit.

Coffee production (Return to top) ​ ​ ​

Coffee arrives as a green bean and needs much more processing than tea. We screen it to make sure that twigs and stones are removed. Then we blend different varieties of green beans together before roasting. We do this to ensure there is the right weight of each bean in the blend before it is roasted and ground.

A roast usually takes between 12 and 13 minutes and once it reaches the intensity we need, it is discharged and quenched with a fine spray of water to stop the roasting process.

The roasted coffee is left in a tote for up to 18 hours before it is ground and packed. We leave it an hour before packing because we have to get the temperature down to at least 13°C.

From there it is moved onto our three packing machines. The beans are fed into nitrogen-cooled grinders using an auger (a screw in a tube). The ground coffee falls into the bags, which are sealed before a valve is affixed to let out excess oxygen. Each machine will produce 65 bags a minute.

We have plans in the next three to five years to invest further in the layout of our factory. We’ve done work to keep the flow of the facility – products in and products out – in one line.

The area where we accept deliveries will receive some investment in the coming years. Nothing has been finalised at the moment and there is a sum in mind, but I can’t say anymore about that just yet.

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Name: John Hennighan

Job title: Factory manager

Domestics: I have three children

Outside of work: I’m an avid poker player and I like to spend as much time with my children as I can

Biggest achievement: Within work, it’s leading the successful projects that I have

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Location: Taylors of Harrogate, Pagoda House, Plumpton Park, Harrogate HG2 7LD

Products: Yorkshire Tea, speciality teas and coffee

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In Moscow you can travel through ages just walking through the streets. Diversified architectural styles wait for you at every turn. To see the beauty of ancient Russian architecture, visit the Kremlin or Kolomenskoe Museum. These places keep the unique Russian style, original and exceptional. The Moscow estates are good examples of the romantic flavor of the XVIII-XIX century’s architecture. The Home-museum of M. Gorky is situated in in a luxurious house built by F. Shechtel, well-known Russian architecture at beginning of the XX century. It is a fantastic example of Art-Nouveau style, one of the few saved places from that epoque, open to visitors. You can find constructivism in architecture, the most striking manifestation of Russian avant-garde, not far from the Arbat Street. The Soviet Empire style can be found on most of the Moscow central avenues and Tverskaya Street. The White Square Business District is a remarkable example of contemporary city building.

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Theatregoers have lots of opportunities to spend a wonderful evening in one of the Moscow theatres. Recently renovated Bolshoi Theatre offers world-famous opera and ballet performances. Malyi Theatre, Lenkom, Satirikon, Moscow Art Theatre have wonderful drama plays. You can enjoy one of the modern theatres, such as Practica Theatre, Theatre.doc or Gogol-center, with their contemporary performances.

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The parks have undoubtedly become the pride of Moscow. These city areas have turned into well groomed nature spots, with enormous amount of things to do for the last few years. Have a walk, do the sports, play a board game, meet your friends in one of the cafes and restaurants, watch a movie or go to a concert – all these is available in Moscow parks. The Gorky Park, Sokolniki, Fili and also recently opened Zaryadye – are only a small part in the diversity of Moscow green areas.

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Visitors to Russia are often surprised by the variety and flavors of Russian traditional food. A great many can be described as «divine», and it will have you searching for the recipes when you return home! Russian cuisine is famous for exotic soups, cabbage schi and solyanka, which is made of assorted meats, pancakes with different fillings, and of course, caviar. Russians are great lovers of pelmeni, small Siberian meat pies boiled in broth. Of our folk soft drinks, kvass is the best-known. Made of brown bread or malted rye flour, it goes down best on a sultry summer day. If you add it to chopped-up meat and vegetables, you get okroshka, an exquisite cold soup. There are a lot of restaurants, providing national food. From very budget «Elki-Palki», to numerous luxurious restaurants like «Café Pouchkine». There you can not only taste Russian delicacies, but also plunge into the atmosphere of the XIX century Russia.

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• The observation deck of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior can be reached only in the excursions. There you can get a really exciting view of the Moscow center.
• The building of the Russian Academy of Science is called «golden brains» due to the original constructions of its roof. It stands on the high riverbank and opens a charming view of the whole Moscow. «Sky Lounge» restaurant is situated on the 21st floor.

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The main attractions and the most interesting places in the historic city center are within walking distance. Take a walk in Lavrushinsky Lane, Nikolskaya Street, Bolshaya Dmitrovka Street, Rozhdestvenka Street, Kuznetsky Bridge Street, Kamergersky Lane, Stoleshnikov Lane, Stariy Arbat, Maroseyka or Pyatnitskaya. If you don’t want to walk by foot take the city bus or river bus tour. You can choose a red open top double-decker bus that will take you around all of the key sites in Moscow. The total length of the tour is about 12 km downtown and has 18 stops around Moscow including the Kremlin, Red Square, St. Basil’s Cathedral, Bolshoi Theater, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, The Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Old Arbat walking street and much more. To see the whole beauty of Moscow, have a boat trip at the Moskva River. At spring and summer season the variety of boat excursions are really big, you can travel through the center of the city, or go further to see picturesque nature around Moscow.

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Night life in Moscow is divisive as everything else. Bars, clubs, concerts, parties – you can find here anything you want and can imagine. We heart Moscow suggests you some really nice places for you not to get lost in all this splendor.

• Simachev Bar is bar-club by the most famous Russian designer, a two-story house in Stoleshnikov Lane. The music and menu are diverse, as well as the audience. A special drink of the bar is cider «Sidor Simachev».
• Strelka Bar is a nice place with a great atmosphere, quality music, and beautiful interior, very popular among hip and intelligent Moscow public. In summer the terrace opens here and the place gives you stunning view of Moscow.
• Noor Bar is one of the famous bars in Moscow. Come here to try marvelous classic cocktails. Bar snacks are also noteworthy. The atmosphere is always positive and benevolent. On Fridays and Saturdays the bar has music DJ sets, and despite rather little area, there are many desirous to dance.
• Propaganda is one of the oldest clubs in Moscow. Opened back in 1997, it can be considered the same age as Moscow club culture. It is still nice and trendy. During the day time you can enjoy fresh homemade pappardelle, sandwiches on focaccia and steaks. In the evening – dances. On Thursdays it holds DJ Sanches dance party and gay parties on Sundays.

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If Moscow is not enough for you, take a journey (of several hundred km from Moscow) and find yourself travelling through the «Golden Ring» of Russia. The Golden Ring is a name for several towns located around Moscow: Suzdal, Rostov, Vladimir are among them. If you want to know more about Russia, see old architecture, churches made of white stone, hear the bell-ring, see old fortifications, be ready to go out from Moscow. The first town of the Golden Ring, is Vladimir, located 179 kilometers to the east from Moscow with 378 thousand people living there. It is an old Russian town, it used to be the capital of Russia in the 12th century. Suzdal is located nearby. It’s an old town, steeped in medieval history, but with little more than 10,000 residents nowadays. Dating back to 990 AD, Suzdal is one of the oldest towns in Russia and the «jewel» of Russia’s history. Today the town is filled with busy churches and monasteries and its streets are lined by colourful traditional wooden houses. Having survived the blight of Soviet town-planning, Suzdal looks much as it did centuries ago and is one of the most popular tourist sights in Russia. Yaroslavl got its name from Yaroslav Mudry, who founded the town in the beginning of 11th century. Now it is a large industrial city, the biggest along the Golden Ring (630 inhabitants), however it has very interesting history, architecture, and city life. If you are tired of sightseeing and want to have some rest from Moscow busy life, you can take a breath of wonderful Russian nature, not going too far, and visit one of the nature hotels and spa situated near Moscow. Places like «Fox Lodge», «Zavidovo» or «Yahonty» are a good variant for relaxing rest, with marvelous nature around you and interesting entertainments for you not to get bored.

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+7 495 166-72-69

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119019 Moscow, Russia, Filippovskiy per. 7, 1

Mon - Sun 10.00 - 18.00

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