The Good Hotel Guide is the leading independent guide to hotels in Great Britain & Ireland, and also covers parts of Continental Europe. The Guide was first published in 1978. It is written for the reader seeking impartial advice on finding a good place to stay. Hotels cannot buy their way into the Guide. The editors and inspectors do not accept free hospitality on their anonymous visits to hotels. All hotels in the Guide receive a free basic listing. A fee is charged for a full web entry.
The Good Hotel Guide
About Us
Independent
Recommended
Trusted
Independent
Recommended
Trusted
Widbrook Grange
Bradford-On-Avon, Wiltshire
If the Borrowers opened a hotel, it would probably be something like Nick and Charlotte Dent's Georgian farmhouse, filled with upcycled objets trouvés.
Good Hotel Guide Review
The hotel experts at the Good Hotel Guide
If the Borrowers were to open a hotel, it would probably be something like Nick and Charlotte Dent's Georgian farmhouse, filled with upcycled objets trouvés. A vintage milk float outside hints at the Grange's past as a model farm while elsewhere, churns, handcarts, seed spreaders and weighing scales have been pressed into service. In your 'very comfortable' bedroom you might find a dressmaker's form, a trumpet bedside lamp, an ancient dial telephone… The style is fashionably shabby chic. There are rustic rooms in converted stables, with beams and exposed stone; a little hideaway in a former piggery. Menus for vegans and omnivores are of a gastropub nature – maybe beef fillet, wild mushroom purée, fondant potatoes, purple carrots, celeriac, bone marrow and red wine jus; ravioli, burger. The food is 'very tasty', a reader related, but a bit heavy, with starters 'more like a small main course'. We hear no such complaints from canine guests about the doggy afternoon tea, the breakfast sausage, the complimentary tennis ball. Staff are 'friendly and extremely hard-working'. The pool and gym are a bonus. See also sister hotel Shieldaig Lodge, Gairloch.
Hotel Details
Address
Widbrook, Bradford-On-Avon, Wiltshire, BA15 1UH, England
Telephone
Bedroom
19. 15 in outbuildings, 6 suitable for wheelchair user.
Openings
all year.
Background Music
all day in public rooms.
Children
all ages welcomed, family rooms, children's menu.
Dogs
allowed in certain bedrooms (£15 a night, bowl, bed, sausage for breakfast), public rooms, not restaurant.
Credit Cards
Amex, MC, Visa.
Prices
B&B doubles from £60, family from £140. À la carte £55.
Facilities
gin bar, snug, restaurant (vegan menu), conservatory, in-room TV, civil wedding licence, function facilities, 11-acre grounds, 11m indoor heated swimming pool, gym, giant chess, parking, public rooms wheelchair accessible, no adapted toilet.
Location
IN THE MEDIA
Visit Wiltshire
Top 10 Best Dog-Friendly Hotels in WiltshireVisit Wiltshire
Top 10 hotels in WiltshireVisit Wiltshire
11 great hotels in Wiltshire