Cotswold Holiday Cottages – Broadway Manor Cottages

Work has continued today along the bank of Bunchers Brook at the bottom of the garden. We have planted 5 whitebeams alongside the old willow trees which were reduced in size by pollarding at the end of last year. We have chosen to plant whitebeams as they are a native ornamental tree with an attractive [...]

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William Morris (1834-1896) was a frequent visitor to Broadway during the 1880s. Morris, along with fellow Pre-Raphaelite artists, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones, used Broadway Tower on top of the Cotswold escarpment overlooking the village as a summer retreat. Morris began publishing poetry and short stories in 1856 and his poem ‘Love is enough’ [...]

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Today is Charles Dickens Bicentenary Day. The day has seen celebrations in Portsmouth, where Dickens was born 200 years ago today, and across all corners of the globe. It is a day to remember Dickens’ connection with the colony of artists in the Cotswold village of Broadway. Broadway resident Fred Barnard illustrated nine Dickens volumes [...]

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The Cotswold Voluntary Wardens offer some fascinating guided walks all year round  in the Cotswolds AONB. The walks vary in distance and difficulty and are free of charge but donations are always very welcome. The guided walks offer an interesting and most enjoyable way to enjoy the Cotswolds. For a list of February walks click here. Tweet //

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Located about an hour’s drive from our cottages in Broadway, in rural Herefordshire, are the wonderful Laskett Gardens, the largest private formal gardens created in England since 1945. Sir Roy Strong and his late wife Dr Julia Trevelyan Oman passionately transformed a neighbouring 3 acre field surrounding their home into a series of stunning gardens including extensive herbaceous [...]

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