The Bell at Sapperton

Find a series of very comfortable beamed dining rooms around a cosy bar, with old flagstones, rugs on boards, blazing winter log fires and a happy mix of locals and walkers with their dogs – it’s a bustling, happy place. Top-notch local food evolves with the seasons and includes home-baked bread, beef from the Cirencester Park herd of cattle, venison and lamb reared just fields away. Summer evenings in the charming courtyard garden will be memorable.

Bedrooms upstairs have calming colours, large beds, smart TVs, sound-proofed floors and mini kitchens but you won’t want to miss the food downstairs. Breakfast is a feast of all the usual culprits plus smoked mackerel with scrambled eggs, oyster mushrooms and spinach with cream cheese on toast, porridge with honey. Ale lovers will find plenty of local beers and there’s a wine wall for buying or drinking here.

Stride out on glorious Cotswold walks or potter along the canal tow path.