Wren’s Cottage is a charming Cotswold stone holiday cottage in bath with a small garden, perfect for a self-catering holiday. Biddestone has a traditional village green with a duck pond, a Norman/Saxon Church and two public houses offering a wide variety of excellent food- all within easy walking distance . It is ideally situated for [...]

The Forest of Dean is continually voted as one of the most attractive places in the whole of the UK.  It’s not surprising then that so many people decide to choose this as the place to go on holiday each year.
What’s more, Forest of Dean self catering accommodation gives you total freedom to go wherever [...]

When you plan active holidays in the UK and you want to go somewhere like the Cotswolds, you can be sure that you will find plenty of things to do there.
No matter where in the Cotswolds you want to stay, you can get up and out nice and early and enjoy everything the countryside has [...]

Everyone knows the most famous person to have lived in Stratford upon Avon.  Today, the market town regularly attracts millions of people a year, as they flock to see where William Shakespeare lived.
If you have never been to the town yourself, there is no better time than right now!  Manor Cottages can make sure you [...]

Bath has to be one of the best places to visit on a day trip, but if you are staying nearby for the week – in one of our holiday cottages perhaps – you will find plenty to do on a prolonged stay as well.
But let’s face it, the one thing everyone wants to do [...]

It’s always nice to explore the modern side of the Cotswolds.  But at the same time the curious side of us wants to know what the villages and towns were like in time gone by.
Luckily there are plenty of museums in the Cotswolds that help to give us a picture of how things used to [...]

Wherever you go on holiday in the Cotswolds you will usually come across at least one National Trust property that you could visit.  The same certainly applies to the Cotswolds and surrounding areas.  Whether you are staying in weekend hotels or you have booked yourself into one of the wonderful Cotswold cottages in the area, [...]

Bath is undoubtedly a great place to visit no matter whether you are going for a day or for a weekend.  And of course if you are staying in Bath or the Cotswolds for a week you could quite easily visit from there as well.  It is only an hour and forty minutes or so [...]

The words ‘Stratford upon Avon’ and ‘budget’ don’t exactly seem to go together, do they?
But you would be surprised at what things you can do in the Cotswolds when you look in the right places for information.  Luckily you don’t have to do that yourself if you are visiting Stratford upon Avon in the near [...]

There is no doubting that the Royal Forest of Dean is one of the most stunning places you could ever hope to visit in the country.  If you are planning a holiday in the UK – perhaps staying in holiday cottages or other self catering accommodation – you couldn’t do much better than to pick [...]