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Accommodation
cottages b&bs city breaks rural retreats
Herefordshire, The Marches and the Wye Valley almost pride themselves on keeping the corporate hotel chains at bay. While offering the odd Premier Inn and Travelodge, you’ll find an altogether more unique and highly personal experience from establishments owned by the people that really do eat, sleep and live here.
Shiny and New
Under new ownership and management, the Green Dragon Hotel’s distinctive premises in the heart of Hereford City have benefitted from a full cosmetic makeover, throughout each of it 83 rooms and ground floor spaces. Now it couldn’t be a more welcoming destination for breakfast, lunch, supper and of course overnight.
For an entirely different experience, newly developed Lakes Edge, in the grounds of Pudleston Court near Leominster, offers beautiful self contained cottages and two gatehouse lodges, with use of the onsite leisure complex.
Hereford City
5 Star guest house Somerville House on residential Bodenham Road is well established on the City break scene, as is excellent B&B Charades a few doors along.
On a nearby road sits pretty B&B
21 Aylestone Hill and larger yet no less homely Georgian Aylestone Court. All the latter are only a short walk from the train station and City pleasures.
The boutique style and Cathedral views of Castle House Hotel offer formal elegance a short stroll from the Castle Green, River Wye and playing fields as well as the City. Likewise high end holiday let Castle Cliffe House is beautifully situated along the riverbank overlooking the City parklands. For more corporate facilities, the Three Counties Hotel is well positioned on the edge of the City with ample parking.
Rural Bed & Breakfasts
You don’t have to be far from Hereford City to be in the countryside and just 3 miles south Sink Green Farm B&B offers beautiful river walks from its 170 acres. Mellington House, in picture-book Weobley, can be taken as B&B or self catering for its additional black & white properties nearby. Then the well-serviced village of Fownhope presents The Bowens B&B with private courtyard rooms and countryside views, while further south to Ross-on-Wye Benhall Farm takes you back in time to real rural life with the option of holiday cottages as well as B&B. On the Worcestershire border Huntlands Farm offers incredibly flexible accommodation and can even arrange baby-sitting, plus they run creative upholstery courses too, and Lowe Farm B&B in Pembridge is 4 Star Gold heaven.
Restaurants with Rooms, and Inns
You’ll love the charm of the award-winning Riverside Inn in Aymestrey mixed with the modernity of their new garden lodges. Appreciate the warmth of the Golden Valley’s Kilpeck Inn and glorious setting
of the Cottage of Content in cute Carey, or enjoy the spectacular views from the beer garden and rooms at the lofty location of The Harp in Old Radnor. Cheer for the re-opening of The Bell
at Skenfrith this summer on the Monmouthshire border, since its devastation from the winter floods.
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