The Inn at Fossebridge - Cotswold Hotel

The Inn at Fossebridge is immersed in 300 years of history … as a coaching inn on the Fosseway, as a hostelry named after wealthy landowner Lord Chedworth, as a building facing a future as apartments.

And today as a beautiful Cotswold retreat, with wonderful accommodation and grounds, fine food, and well under an hour from Stratford-upon-Avon and Cheltenham, Cirencester, the delightful capital of the Cotswolds, Burford and Stow-on-the-Wold, pretty hamlets and villages which almost look today as they did a few centuries ago.

The Inn at Fossebridge is between the Gloucestershire towns of Cirencester and Northleach, within a dip on the A429.

It is surrounded by the estates of the Vestey and Bathurst families, acres upon acres of grassland, their heritage steeped in the days of the wool trade … and still quintessential farming country.

The Inn at Fossebridge is within the parish of Chedworth … the first building recorded on the site was in 1634 when it was acquired the local Dutton family.

Historians say the house may have later become the inn, though much of the present building is from the 18th century.

Indeed the Inn had opened by 1759 and was then known at Lord Chedworth’s Arms, a name recalled in the wonderful old bar that still exists today; the name was changed to Fossebridge Inn in the early 19th century.