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Country house hotels in Gloucestershire



Luxury short and weekend breaks

We've hand-picked the finest country house hotels in Gloucestershire - to view please click on LIST HOTELS. All our country house hotels in Gloucestershire can be booked online at great rates.

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Antiques, art and four posters

There are more excellent country house hotels in Gloucestershire than just about any county in England. Hotels like Lower Slaughter Manor, a proper country house hotel where you feel more like a house-guest than a paying client. The elegant rooms are furnished with antiques and beautifully decorated with art and fine china - many of the bedrooms have four-poster beds.

Fine views and a wonderful restaurant

Serious foodies in search of luxury, beautiful surrounding and great views should head for Wyckhillhouse, near Stow-on-the-Wold. This four star country house hotel has enormous bedrooms and a wonderful restaurant.

Stay in a Tudor castle

Our next selection is not a country house but a Tudor castle, set in fifteen acres. The three star Thornbury Castle is wonderfully atmospheric with an interior decorated with wood paneling, paintings and tapestries. Most of the bedrooms overlook the hotel's vineyard or its original Tudor Garden (the oldest in England). Beyond lie the hills of South Gloucestershire and Wales.

Lovely grounds with an Arboretum

The Victorian Gothic Tortworth Court Four Pillars Hotel is a magnificent four star country house hotel in thirty acres of parkland atop the Cotswold Edge, a dramatic escarpment. The lovely grounds contain one of the UK's best Arboretums, with over three hundred rare trees. The hotel has top-notch leisure facilities that include a swimming pool, gym and spa, a grand restaurant and a lovely drawing room with views over the Severn Valley.

England's oldest inn

We simply had to include Theroyalist, although it's perhaps not strictly a country house hotel. Bit the Cotswold village of Stow-on-the-Wold, with its art galleries and antique shops is hardly a metropolis. Theroyalist is England's oldest inn, offering travellers shelter since 947ad. This three star hotel has an ward-winning restaurant as well as the village pub, The Eagle and Child.

Start with a cocktail

Manor House Classic Hotel, nestling in the glorious Cotswolds countryside, has an excellent restaurant with a bar where cocktails are mixed with expertise. This sixteenth century Manor House Hotel is a great base from which to explore Stratford, Cheltenham, Warwick and Oxford. These are just a few of the country house hotels in Gloucestershire - click on the "List Hotels" button to view all hotels.

Where is it?

Gloucestershire is situated in the heart of Central England, less than two hours drive from London, and less than one hour from Bristol and Birmingham.

What's it like?

• Gloucestershire is how you remember England when you're stuck in a desert a long way from home - church spires, village greens and irresistible rolling countryside.

• The county has a great variety of landscapes.

What's it famous for?

• Cheese - Double Gloucester.

• The Cotswolds - weekend getaway of the well-heeled.

• Magnificent historic buildings Gloucester Cathedral and Tewkesbury Abbey

• Cheltenham Spa's Regency architecture

• Royal Forest of Dean Country house and gardens

• Snowshill Manor, Snowshill

• Sudeley Castle Gardens, Winchcombe

• Westonbirt Arboretum, Tetbury

• Berkeley Castle, Berkeley

• Hidcote Manor Gardens, Hidcote