A warm welcome and a generous breakfast await you at our en-suite bed and breakfast accommodation. 

Originally the squire's house and later a farm house, Well House is set in the tiny hamlet of Chapel Lawn in the secluded Redlake Valley within the South Shropshire Hills, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. We're five miles south of Clun, famous for the Clun Green Man and the Clun Beer festivals. Fifteen miles away is Ludlow, well known for its Food Festival, and four miles away is the Welsh border town of Knighton. If you’re walking through Knighton along the Offa’s Dyke path we can  arrange for you to be collected at the end of the day and returned to the same spot the next morning.

This is an ideal spot for anyone wanting peace and tranquillity. The walks and views are superb; the pace of life is slow; people are friendly; the pubs and the beer are wonderful. It’s the England we all think we remember that never really existed - except here.

Next door to a working farm, our lovely, wisteria-clad, oak-beamed, stone farm-house dates from 1714. Our beds are comfortable – we can provide double or separate en suite accommodation. Our breakfasts are large and good - we serve organic bacon and sausages and free range eggs when available. Our garden is a delight to laze in and read a book or the Sunday papers.  There's a breakfast room with an open fire on chilly days and a large, elm-panelled living room with an inglenook fireplace and log burner. If you want TV we have it in the bedrooms and in the living room, and wireless broadband as well, but unless you climb up to historic Caer Caradoc, the nearby Iron Age hill fort, you're out of range of a mobile mast – so you really are away from it all here. If it's too wet to go out, you can stay indoors and watch old videos and play scrabble, or just doze on a sofa.

We can advise you on local walks of varying lengths and difficulty and we especially welcome walkers, horse-riders and touring cyclists. We have secure storage for bikes. Collection from nearby railway stations such as Ludlow, Craven Arms and Bucknell - people and bikes - can be arranged. We can usually  provide evening meals, but if we can't, we can always arrange for one locally: again, transport is possible. We aren’t licensed but you can bring your own wine and beer.

 

Because of the demand for accommodation at Royal Show time, we aren't too far from the show ground at Builth Wells, nor from Hay-on-Wye for the Guardian Hay Festival.   

 

Our prices are very reasonable and if you’re part of a larger party we can refer your friends to neighbouring B&Bs.

 

Contact: Di and Patrick Cosgrove, Well House, Chapel Lawn, Bucknell, SY7 0BW. Tel: 01547 530347

email: Bookings@stayatchapellawn.co.uk

 

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The Redlake Valley in April (Click to enlarge picture) 

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