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Gutchpool Farm

Gillingham, Dorset
Bed & Breakfast
+44 (0)1747 612345
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Per night
£140 - £185

3 rooms

Rooms sleep 2

You have your own entrance to a private wing with a garden and an elegant sitting room. Bedrooms are beautiful and breakfast scrumptious

Per night
£140 - £185

Visit the owner's site and book direct with them. No fees or fuss from us.

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The Experience

You stay in the private wing of the farmhouse with views over farmland, river or courtyard. There’s a grass landing strip so it’s possible to arrive by plane (by prior arrangement of course); horses can be stabled too.

Breakfast choices change often – a convivial affair by the wood-burner in the big sitting room: eggs from the hens in the orchard, perhaps mushrooms on toast with chives, avocado on sourdough with chilli and lime or blueberry pancakes with maple syrup, homemade preserves and freshly-squeezed orange juice.

Have supper at Rachel and Bill’s favourite inn The Beckford Arms in Fonthill Gifford (a 20-minute drive); Rachel gives you a helpful list of other nearby eateries, interesting shops and places to visit too.

We think you'll love

Socialising in the lovely open-plan guest sitting room
The light and healthy breakfast menu
The glorious rural setting

You should know

The master en-suite bedroom is on the ground floor
No baths, just showers

Essentials

EV charger
Swimming pool
Hot tub
Garden
Open fire / woodburner
Breakfast included
Breakfast available
Meals available
Vegetarian meals
Oven
Parking on premises
Free parking nearby
Accessible by public transport
WiFi
Television
Spa
Central heating
Limited mobility
Wheelchair access
Mobile reception
Hob
Bar
Barbecue
Licensed premises
Paid parking nearby
Air conditioning
Relaxation areas
Washing machine
Tennis court
Microwave oven
No smoking
Credit cards
Working farm
Owner has pets
Dishwasher
Pets welcome

Family friendly

Baby monitor
Books and toys
Children welcome
Babies welcome
Stair gates
High chair
Fire guard
Cot available

Nearby

Pub/bar within 3 miles
Restaurant within 3 miles
Shop within 3 miles

Activities

Bikes available
Food courses
Kayaking
Other courses
Sailing
Surfing
Wild swimming

Pricing

Nightly price: from £140

1 Twin: From £140
1 Double: From £140
1 Twin/double: From £140

Information

Booking information

Check in: 5-7pm
Check out: By 10am Monday-Friday, by 10.30am Saturday & Sunday
Other details: Minimum stay: 2 nights.
Closed: Christmas & occasionally.
No smoking: Smoking not permitted anywhere in the property.
Property: This property is part of a working farm or vineyard.
Owner has pets: Animals living on the property
Meals: Nearest recommended restaurant 10-minute drive. Packed lunch £10 per person.

Reviews

If you love animals, birds and wildlife you will be happy here. A very tranquil and relaxing feel to this bed and breakfast. Sleep in deeply comfortable beds, settle into a sofa in the elegant guests sitting room with a good book, and enjoy Rachel's healthy and varied light breakfasts. Fresh coffee and chocolates in your room too...be really pampered here on this lovely farm.

Angie Sawday's Inspector

Nigel, Winchester Oct 2019

A delightful place to stay. The room was perfect and the living area for guests warm, inviting and comfortable. Rachel is a charming hostess and goes out of her way to make you feel at home. I cannot recommend this place highly enough.

Gillian, West Sussex Sep 2019

Think open fields outside your window where horses and sheep roam freely. Rachel Hall runs this exceptional place and is a welcoming, interesting hostess. Furnishings and décor are high end, yet the atmosphere so relaxed that it’s tempting to give in to the pervading peace and quiet and loll around all day on the squashy sofas and chairs in the guests’ impressive sitting-room. We felt utterly spoiled in the spacious ground floor Blue Room which offered every imaginable comfort including fine toiletries, slippers, and a private terrace. Cross fingers, we'll be back.

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Location

The neighbourhood

The farm is within the medieval Royal Forest of Gillingham on the edge of the Blackmore Vale. Once part of King John's deer park, there are 140 acres of pasture with sheep and Rachel’s horses, mixed woodland and river. Walks start from the farm – Rachel and Bill have produced a map of trails - and you’re in wonderful riding countryside. You’re six miles from National Trust Stourhead – one of the best places in England to visit for autumn colours. There’s a good village shop in Motcombe (two-mile drive); Shaftesbury – for Gold Hill, the Abbey and independent arty shops – is 15 minutes by car; the Jurassic Coast is an hour.

Local points of interest from Rachel Hall

You are 10 minutes from the famous 18th century gardens of Stourhead. Walk the lake stopping off at beautiful classical follies and temples on the way, visit the grotto and sip hot chocolate in the tiny thatched cottage in the trees on a winter's afternoon
If walking is your passion then follow the ancient drovers' tracks over Cranborne Chase, abundant with wildflowers in summer. Drop down to a local pub for a quick bite and perhaps visit Cranborne Manor and it's lovely garden on the way home.
For art you are in luck: we are 20 mins from the Hauser & Wirth gallery, set in an elegant courtyard, with gardens and an excellent restaurant. And Messums, Tisbury is situated in a magnificent thatched barn, with great exhibitions, events and a cafe.
A trip to the Jurassic coast is a must. Enjoy spectacular clifftop walks, secluded bays, swim off Dancing Ledge, find fossils, eat fresh crab from the cabin at Lulworth Cove, stroll along the sands of West Bay and finish with a proper cream tea at Eype.

Introducing

Rachel Hall

Rachel moved to Dorset from Oxfordshire in 2005; she lives at Gutchpool Farm where she runs the farm and offers B&B. She loves welcoming guests to the farm, and paints, sews and writes in her spare time. She’s Scottish, grew up in the Borders, and the family like going there to walk, cycle, swim and fish for salmon.