PLACES TO VISIT

The beautiful market town of Chipping Campden is a mile away. It’s a great place to wander round and for shopping. It has a dozen or so restaurants and pubs for lunch and dinner. Broad Campden itself has a super local pub, and one of the best gastro-pubs in England is at Paxford, two miles south. There are famous and wonderfully-named Cotswold villages nearby: Stow-on-the-Wold, The Slaughters, Broadway, Blockley, and Moreton-in-Marsh. Visually delicious as well as intriguing, between them they have markets, antique shops, galleries, tea shops, restaurants and pubs.

Blenheim Palace, one of Britain's greatest country houses, is a 40-minute drive away, as is Warwick Castle. Closer still are other extraordinary National Trust houses, and inspiring gardens, such as Snowshill Manor and Hidcote Manor. And just up the road are the wonderful Kiftsgate Court Gardens.

Stratford-upon-Avon is 10 miles north and Oxford and Cheltenham are within easy striking distance.

The Cotswolds is an area famed for its walks, the greatest of which is the Cotswold Way, which you can join from the Malt House, even if you’re not hiking all the way to Bath!