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CENTRAL ENGLAND
COTSWOLDS • THAMES VALLEYVV
MIDLANDS • EAST ANGLIA

TRETCHING BETWEEN the Thames beautiful manor houses to
Valley in the south and a line enchanting vine-clad inns; the
Sdrawn east-west from the East Anglian counties of Norfolk
mouth of the Humber river, and Suffolk also have a wide
Central England encompasses choice. Elsewhere there are smart
idyllic rural landscapes and townhouse hotels, a smattering
great cathedral and university of stately homes-turned-hotels
cities such as Lincoln, and a tempting selection of
Manchester and Oxford. In the country houses, located in
quintessentially English Cotswolds widely differing yet easily
you will find fine places to stay in accessible settings, and
every category, from meltingly perfect for a restful few days.

BASLOW BEYTON

Fischer’s Baslow Hall A 1907 mock-Elizabethan Manorhouse This spacious B&B in a beautiful
house has become a Michelin-starred restaurant 15th-century Suffolk longhouse overlooks the
with rooms under the aegis of chef Max Fischer village green. It’s an elegant, but down-to-earth
and his wife Susan, an excellent hostess. The place – the half-timbered, colourwashed rooms
food is the point of the place (you can eat more are filled with antiques, but outside, chickens
simply in Café Max) but the smart bedrooms have the run of the gravelled yard, and provide
make a perfectly good overnight base. most of the eggs served at breakfast. Dinner on
N Calver Rd, Baslow, Derbyshire DE45 1RR. request; or it’s a short stroll to the village pubs.
Map p75 D2. § (01246) 583259. ` (01246) 583818. N Beyton, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk IP30 9AF Map p75
0 b,l,d. Rooms 11. ∂¢ Christmas. F3. § (01359) 270960. $ manorhouse@ beyton.com
/ AE, DC, MC, V. ]]] 0 b. Rooms 4. ¢ Christmas. / not accepted. ]

ASHBOURNE ATHERSTONE
Callow Hall Above the Dove valley, a Victorian Chapel House A quiet address (church bells
country house and grounds, lovingly restored. excepted) in an old market town. Walled garden,
Comfortable and well-run, with good food. light bedrooms, enjoyable food.
N Mappleton, Ashbourne, Derbyshire DE6 2AA. Map p75 N Friar’s Gate, Atherstone, Warwickshire CV9 1EY.
D2. § (01335) 300900. ` (01335) 300512. $ Map p75 D3. § (01827) 718949. ` (01827) 717702.
reservations@callowhall.co.uk 0 b,d. Rooms 16. ]]] 0 b,d. Rooms 14. ]]
ASHFORD-IN-THE-WATERWW BASLOW
Riverside This stone-built, creeper-clad country Cavendish Owned by the Duke and Duchess of
house has secluded grounds bordering the River Devonshire, and overlooking their estate,
Wye. Accommodation is luxurious. Chatsworth. Homely rather than grand.
N Ashford-in-the-Water, Bakewell, Derbyshire DE45 1QF. N Baslow, Derbyshire DE45 1SP. Map p75 D2.
Map p75 D2. § (01629) 814275. ` (01629) 812873. $ § (01246) 582311. ` (01246) 582312. $ info@
riversidehouse@enta.net 0 b,l,d. Rooms 15. ]]]] cavendish-hotel.net 0 b,l,d. Rooms 24 ]]]
For key to symbols see backflap. For price categories see p71