Cotswold B&Bs
 

We are traveling to the Cotswolds this October. We will be hiking town-to-town. Anyone have any inexpensive in-town B&Bs they can recommend? We will start in Moreton-in-Marsh, so suggestions there would be particularly welcome.
Thanks

As ever, define what you mean by inexpensive. And maybe supply the list of towns where you plan to stop.

You posted related questions here twice before, and on Frommers, and got a number of responses on both forums. You have not responded to any of those responses, indicating whether we have been any help or not.

Are you still talking about walking the Cotswold Way? If so, you should know how far you plan on walking each day and therefore which towns/villages you would need to stay in. With that info, perhaps we could help.

I stayed at the Olive Branch Guest House in Broadway in May. They won "Best B&B in the UK" this year. Broadway was a great place to base ourselves as we toured the area. I think we paid somewhere around 50 GBP per person for single rooms with an outstanding breakfast. Also, free parking.

A few doors down is the Milestone House. We spent two nights at each B&B. We also enjoyed our stay at the Milestone. Same price range, I believe.

Have you tried the smoothhound website? They have many listings of B&B's in the Cotswolds. We passed through Moreton-in-Marsh last spring and it looked a bit busy to entice me to stay overnight--it may have been market day.

As ron says - you got a good deal of info on your other threads. Not about B&Bs specifically but about your general plan to spend "several weeks" walking the Cotswold Way.

Is that still your plan? Or are you going elsewhere? We need to know where you'll be walking before any useful suggestions are possible. Also -- what is you budget? "Inexpensive" means many things to many people

There are a number of people on this site with a huge amount of knowlege of the Cotswolds that they're only to happy to share. You really aren't helping yourself by not answering the sensible questions they've been asking you, on this and previous posts.

You seem to have changed your mind about walking the Cotswold Way, since it doesn't go through Moreton. To plan a route properly from there to wherever you want to end up, you really need a full set of the OS Explorer maps for the region (which means OL45, 155, 167, 168,and 179), and maybe it's because you haven't got them that you're not sure of where you're going.

But, for advance planning, there is a useful trick. Go to www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Input the Moreton railway station postcode (GL56 0AF) into the GetAMap box. The popup will show you a map of everything, including the footpath system, zooming between about 1:10 million and 1:about 10,000 (the paths are marked only on the 2km and 4km windows). Keep scrolling till you get where you want to be.

This will help you work out what paths pass through which towns and villages (the Cotswold Way mostly - and very uncharacteristically of English footpaths - avoids settled areas, which is why it's a very unEnglish invention). So you should now have a list of places you're likely to be passing through.

Come back here with that list and you'll be bowled over with useful suggestions for places to stay.

Thanks for all of your input. I see I need to provide more info. Here it is. My wife and I will take the train from Heathrow to Moreton-in-Marsh, hike down to Bourbon-on-Water seeing Stow-on-Wold and the Slaughters along the way. Then take the local bus up to Chipping Campden, and walk down to Winchcombe, seeing Broadway, Stanway, and Showshill along the way. Then we'll take the bus to Bath and pick up a rental car. We'll spend the rest of our stay driving around Cornwall. The hiking part will take about 11 days, the Cornwall part about the same.
Any comments about this trip, as well as B&Bs in these cute towns in the 50 lbs. range (for 2 people) is appreciated.
Thanks again.

Good sources have been recommended for finding B&Bs. If you are looking at paying £50 per night, you are looking at your fairly basic, no frills en-suite accommodations. Special B&Bs that might be recommended are going to be more expensive.

In terms of your walking plan, I see a nine mile walk from Moreton to Bourton and a 17 mile walk from Chipping Campden to Winchcombe, 3 days in total with lots of time for sightseeing. I would wonder how you plan to spend the other 8 days?

Are you planning on carrying your luggage on your back or are you planning to use a forwarding service, just walking with a daypack?

Flavel...you ought to have one helluva time in Bourbon-on-Water. That has to be the most joyous typo we've seen. Don't change it! Of course, being a little tipsy as you walk could end up in an unwelcome dip in the Bourton-on- the Water's water...the lovely Windrush River!
On a more serious track, if you're tired from your trip and want to stay in Moreton-in-Marsh overnight..there's a very nice in-town B and B, quite reasonable, fitting into your requirements..just ask anybody for The Dempster House.
Enjoy your Bourbon!

Stu

I loved Honeysuckle cottage in Stow on the Wold. Booked it thru smoothound.com. Also stayed at The Mews in Stow and liked it. Mews has a fabulous breakfast. These are in your budget.

Have a wonderful time.

I can't tell you how much we loved the Dial House in Burton on the Water. Lovely hosts and very relaxing rooms.
Wonderful food for dinner and breakfast. Have fun.