Local Attractions Sight Seeing
The town of Berkeley is situated in the beautiful vale of Berkeley and provides an ideal base to explore local attractions including Berkeley Castle, The Jenner Museum, Historic Gloucester, Bristol and the Cotswold's.
Berkeley Castle
domestic architecture in the country.
Where other Castles were romanticised or "modernised" by the Georgians and the Victorians, Berkeley quietly survived as what it is:
A Norman fortress with an enclosing curtain wall, built and enlarged through the medieval period and beyond into a secure, comfortable, substantial home.
The Jenner Museum
It was from this house in 1796 that Edward Jenner pioneered a vaccination against smallpox and changed the world.
Visit this monumentally influential site to find out about Dr Jenner's life, his hopes and setbacks and how he changed the world. Immerse yourself in this beautiful, rural country home and explore where history was made.
Please use the link to the side of the page to visit The Jenner Museum website.
The Cotswolds Popular with both the English themselves and visitors from all over the world, the Cotswolds are well-known for gentle hillsides ('wolds'), sleepy villages and for being so 'typically English'.
There are famous cities such as Bath, well-known beautiful towns like Cheltenham and hundreds of delightful villages such as Burford and Castle Combe. Above all, the local honey-coloured limestone, used for everything from the stone floors in the houses to the tiles on the roofs has ensured that the area has a magical uniformity of architecture.
You will see 'Drystone walls' everywhere in the fields. Many were built in the 18th and 19th centuries and demonstrate the considerable masonry skill of those who built them as there is no cement to hold the walls together. They represent an important part of the historical landscape as well as being a major conservation feature - and are of course, still used by farmers to enclose sheep and cattle.
A link for The Cotswolds is also available to the side of this page.
All meals on our restaurant menu are homemade and created using only the freshest ingredients and local produce.
We provide ideal surroundings for your visit, whether it's a cosy dinner for two or a private celebration.
Sunday to Thursday we can upgrade guests from a single to a double for a special rate of 60 bed and breakfast.
Berkeley is situated in the beautiful vale of Berkeley and provides an ideal base to explore local attractions.