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Cream cakes, cakes with marzipan icing, chocolate sponges and traditional jam and cream sponges - yum! Also a range of chocolates too!

Also offering a range of delicious food in the Tea Rooms. Take Betty's treats home with you from the shop!]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/12181 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/12097
You get a choice of two freshly blended flavours a day (or you can have half and half - which is the best) and they taste amazing. They often have some really nice fruity frozen yoghurt flavours. The people who own the place are brilliant and there is nothing more satisfying on a sunny day that mooching around Ripley castle courtyard with a cone in hand.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/12097 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/11685 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/11685 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/10823
Then that evening he just missed one train back and had a long wait so, rather than dive into the nearest pub, he opted to try Bettys again and we found it still bustling at 8 o'clock in the evening but with the teeniest of queues.

Greeted with heartwarmingly friendly service and the tinkly tink of the pianist who plays every evening, we each demolished a brown bread ice cream sundae before he dashed for the next return train back to student land and I headed back to my hotel.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/10823 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/8989
But the Turkish Baths are a real gem - now restored to former glory, these council run baths consist of a series of progressively hotter rooms. You plunge in ice-cold water in-between hot room sessions. Take a book and spend a 1/2 day relaxing - you'll feel great after. You'll be so relaxed you wont even mind forking out 15 quid for tea and cake in Betty's afterwards. Check out the photographs on the way in of various early twentieth century 'health' treatments that wouldn't look out of place in Abu Ghraib. Thankfully times have moved on since then.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/8989 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/8553 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/8553