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Farmcote is a working family farm producing sheep and cereals. It
is situated high on the Cotswold escarpment in an Area of Outstanding
Natural Beauty.
The house was
built around 1840 for the second son of Lord Sudeley. It has a flagstoned
hall entrance leading to comfortable spacious accommodation upstairs.
There is a double en suite/family room, twin en-suite and twin
with private bathroom. The rooms are non-smoking and equipped
with television, radio, hairdryer and hospitality tray.
The house is
surrounded by a large garden where guests can have afternoon tea
on the terrace in the summer and enjoy the views across to the Malvern
Hills and Welsh mountains beyond.
Farmcote is
well situated for walking, with the Cotswold Way crossing the farm.
In the immediate vicinity there are lovely country walks, some of
which can take in a pub or two. Nearby is the Cotswold Farm Park
at Temple Guiting, the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Steam Railway
at Toddington, historic Sudeley Castle at Winchcombe, Prescott
Hill Climb for motor enthusiasts and England's highest fountain at
Stanway. There are good country pubs nearby.
Broadway, Chipping
Campden, Stow-on-the-Wold, Bourton-on-the-Water and Cheltenham are
all within a half-hour's drive, with Stratford, Oxford and Bath
only an hour away.
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