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Country Houses to Rent in England - Hereford/Worcester
oiseau · 26/05/2004 09:59
I am looking for a really top quality country house/cottage to rent for my Mum's 70th Birthday in the Hereford/Worcester/Cotswolds. Does anyone know any good companies that do this sort of thing - it would be great if they can arrange catering as well for one evening.
CountessDracula · 26/05/2004 10:02
How about this one
www.hidays.co.uk has a good search facility and does lots of bigger houses
CountessDracula · 26/05/2004 10:13
This one looks lovely
As does this with outdoor pool
marialuisa · 26/05/2004 10:51
Having a far too close relationship with the owners of the houses in whitchurch/Symonds Yat I wouldn't recommend them. the one with the pool is very hard to access and not esp. safe with kids (the pub mentioned is a dive), you also have about 6 Amsterdam style barges going past full of tourists all day, everyday.
Other house has nice views of the A road down to Cardiff.
Sorry CD, don't mean to offend, just one of those weird moments when you know far too much about somewhere!
oiseau · 26/05/2004 13:24
It's for 10 people plus separate baby room (I can't sleep with ds in my room - too snuffly!)so looking for six bedrooms.
CD - I thought those two looked really great and got quite excited. But the inside info from marialuisa has put me off!
I'll have a search on hidays - thanks for that.
CountessDracula · 26/05/2004 13:48
marialuisa how weird is that? They look so nice from the outside too! Probably best to get recommendation from someone who has actually been somewhere!
reddevil · 26/05/2004 13:55
You could maybe try Brian Viner's (writer in the Independent)holiday cottages somewhere in Herefordshire? I haven't been but they sound lovely in his articles!
Details on www.docklow-manor.co.uk.
CookieMonster · 26/05/2004 14:12
oi watch it cheeky codfish .... I'm from there originally and parents still live there ... might have to send the Young Farmers around to sort you out
marialuisa · 26/05/2004 15:01
Trying to think of nicer places in Herefordshire, prefer the north/Golden Valley myself, but it's very rural.
So, do we know Coddy's in-laws??
CookieMonster · 26/05/2004 15:12
we might .... it's the sort of place where everybody knows everybody else. If I go for a visit and Mum and I walk through town, she has to stop and talk to about 25 people !! Takes ages to get any shopping done!
marialuisa · 26/05/2004 15:29
Yes, I find it lightly disconcerting to walk through Hightown with DD and see my old teachers!
CookieMonster · 26/05/2004 15:52
oiseau, sorry, didn't mean to hijack your thread ... I'm afraid that because I lived round there and have family there, I have no idea about houses to rent because I've never had the need.
Please ignore the codfish - it is a lovely part of the world
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