Review: Daylesford, Kingham hotel review

The brainchild of Carole Bamford, the Daylesford farm shop opened in 2002 on the site they had been farming organically for 40-odd years. The couple’s massive resident Georgian pile is just over the next hill – look out for the helicopters zooming in and out. The cottages here are the extension of the original Daylesford farm shop set up by Carole Bamford on the family’s 2,000-acre farm in the Cotswolds, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.

There’s also a restaurant, café and bar showcasing farm goodies, with the same light, natural and minimal vibe as the popular London Daylesford farm shops in Notting Hill, Marylebone, Pimlico and Knightsbridge, and a spa and barn stocked with Bamford natural beauty products and cashmere leisure wear. But it is still a working farm, and on open days you can go and meet the resident pigs and cows and stroll in the 20-acre market garden where all the produce is grown.