A luxury country house hotel near Bath with an Award-Winning Restaurant. Widbrook Grange, home of resident owners Jane and Peter Wragg is an elegant 250-year-old Georgian country house hotel peacefully located in 11 acres of grounds on the outskirts of the ancient town of Bradford-on-Avon.
Its "Medlar Tree" Restaurant has an AA rosette for culinary excellence, and award winning Head Chef Phil Carroll serves fine food for adults and children that is British in origin and that reflects the rustic past of a traditional English Country House. It is complimented by an interesting selection of New and Old World wines. You can enjoy this fascinating food by taking advantage of the hotels excellent value Dinner Bed and Breakfast Rates. The Medlar Tree Restaurant is also open to non-residents and because of its reputation locally, it is often full. A table booking is recommended.
The hotel lies on the edge of the Cotswold’s amidst rolling countryside yet is only 20 minutes from the historic city of Bath and Lord Bath's magnificent Longleat stately home and safari park.
Stonehenge and Avebury are about 40 minutes drive and the National Trust village of Lacock with its Medieval Abbey is about 20. The County town of Trowbridge is less than 10 minutes away and London is about a two-hour drive or 90 minutes by train.
Being only 40 minutes from Bristol International Airport Widbrook Grange is easily accessible from many UK and European Cities and even from New York.
Walks from the hotel lead to the Kennet and Avon canal with its picturesque narrow boats, past the 14th century tithe Barn and on to the centre of Bradford-on-Avon. The town grew from an Iron Age settlement 2500 years ago and is steeped in history. A walk around the town reveals wonderful examples of life in the Roman, Saxon, Norman, Medieval and Industrial Revolution times.
Widbrook Grange is one of Bradford on Avon's finest hotels and for its attentive yet unobtrusive hospitality, it is a past winner of the RAC Little Gem Award. The hotel has an intimate relaxing atmosphere of warmth and informality with cosy lounges and a log fire burning on cold winter nights and peaceful gardens in which to relax on those long balmy summer evenings.
The hotel especially welcomes families and has plenty of land for children to explore and play in safety without disturbing those adults who would prefer some peace and quiet.. There are child listening devices in all of its bedrooms.
Accommodation
Widbrook's 20 spacious and tastefully decorated bedrooms are located in the main house and in its courtyard and garden. These include romantic four posters, family rooms and rooms with facilities for disabled guests. The hotel boasts a heated indoor swimming pool, a gym and wireless broadband facilities available in several of the bedrooms.
The hotel also has a secluded conference suite catering for between 2 and 25 delegates with a full range of facilities including wireless broadband connections.
All rooms are offered for both single and multiple occupancy and have en-suite bathrooms with shower, direct dial telephone, a hair dryer, colour TV and complimentary tea and coffee making facilities. They are individually designed with fabrics and furnishings that compliment the surroundings and range from the more traditional in the main house to ones with exposed beams and sand stonewalls in the courtyard. Several of the rooms have four-poster beds and all have furniture of the period, much of it antique.
There is a specially designed ground floor room for our disabled guests with wide access, walk in shower and seat, levering bars and bed/chair blocks. There is flat access from this room into the restaurant, drawing room and swimming pool.
Children are very welcome at Widbrook Grange and we have a number of large family rooms with connecting doors or corridors. Cots are provided free of charge if required and baby-listening equipment and baby - sitting services are available.
Wi-Fi wireless broadband is now available several of the bedrooms and in the conference suites.
The Medlar Tree Restaurant
Our award-winning restaurant is named after an ancient tree in the hotel's gardens. Awarded the AA rosette for excellence it offers a wonderfully comfortable and relaxed setting in which to enjoy authentic and imaginative British regional cuisine both old and new, using fresh ingredients and unusual recipes developed from information gathered from around the British Isles. The restaurant is open for lunch and dinner throughout the week and the mixture of food prepared suits most tastes and dietary needs. For larger parties, small banquets and private dinners our chefs are only too happy to create dishes to meet specific requirements.
Weddings
“For the smaller, intimate wedding with style”
Imagine the perfect venue for your special day. A luxury Country House Hotel licensed for Civil Weddings, with an award winning AA Rosette Restaurant, and sumptuous accommodation.
Picture your intimate wedding at Widbrook, our elegant yet homely Georgian House set in eleven acres of gardens and grounds. The house is full of the flowers of your choice, you are surrounded by your family and friends, and we are looking after your every need....
Picture yourself having your wedding photographs taken in a beautiful English country garden with gazebos, fishponds and quiet retreats to escape to in the midst of a busy day.
Imagine this beautiful restaurant set up for your wedding feast with crisp white table linen, crystal glass and silver cutlery. The menu for your meal is unique and has been designed especially for you by our Head Chef and the food is served to you by our friendly and efficient staff whose only concern is that you have a wonderful day.
At the end of your wonderful day what better than just sinking into a romantic four-poster bed surrounded by flowers, and being covered by cool Egyptian cotton sheets, to sleep and dream of happy times together. Imagine your guests also being able to retire to their beautifully furnished bedrooms without the worries of getting home.
As the sun rises on the first day of your married life a lovely heated indoor pool provides the facility for you and your guests to have an invigorating morning swim before a traditional English breakfast and your onward journey.
Imagine the perfect wedding day that you have designed being organised and run by people who have got to know you and who are caring and reliable professionals attending to every detail. The worries are lifted from your shoulders and you can relax and enjoy your special day
Widbrook specialises in smaller weddings and can host up to fifty people. Whether you choose just to have your ceremony and wedding feast with us, relaxing afterwards in a private conservatory, or you take over the whole hotel, the day Widbrook Grange becomes the venue for your wedding will be one that you will never forget...
Swimming pool & Leisure Facilities
For those of a more athletic nature, we have a superb eleven metre indoor heated swimming pool, always kept at a welcoming temperature. This is complimented by a small gym with a selection of exercise equipment to suite all ages and levels of fitness.
If walking or jogging is your favourite exercise, there is a countryside footpath across part of our land that meets a bridle way and leads onto the Kennet and Avon canal towpath back to the hotel. This provides a not too challenging jogging circuit or a very pleasant round walk.
We have tee booking arrangements with the local Kingsdown and Cumberwell Golf Clubs and can organise boat hire on the canal, horseback riding and cycle hire. |
