Bed and Breakfast in the heart of the Cotswold Water Park

Our farmhouse lies within the Cotswold Water Park which is Britain's largest water park, comprising more than 140 lakes covering an area of 40 square miles. The water park lakes are flooded gravel workings put to a variety of new uses. It is already much larger than the Norfolk Broads and still growing.

Here there are picnic and barbeque sites with plenty of parking and access to a network of footpaths, cycleways and bridlepaths.

It is an internationally recognised area for wildlife and birdwatching. You can visit five nature reserves with bird hides. Day permits for fly and coarse fishing are available.

If you wish to be more active, sailing, windsurfing, snorkeling, canoeing, waterski-ing, jetski-ing, cycling, paintballing, horse-riding and golf facilities are available within 5 miles from our accommodation.

The Thames Path National Trail

The Thames Path starts at Kemble (7 miles away) and passes through Ashton Keynes, which is the first village on the River Thames. As you leave the village you walk over and around many lakes now mellowing as time has introduced natural wild flowers and shrubs, encouraging many insects and birds to the area. As you leave the lakes, the path takes you along a track on the old railway line then past a bridge on the line of the North Wiltshire Canal to the nature reserve of North Meadow where one of the best displays of the snake's head fritillary can be seen during April and May each year.

Many walkers take advantage of our special rate for a 2 or 3 night stay and help with transport as far a Cricklade or Castle Eaton depending on the distance guests wish to travel each day.