Once the principal farm in this early settlement, Lower Buckton
is today the home to Henry and Carolyn Chesshire. Their friendly
hospitality welcomes guests to this truly, quiet, rural and tranquil
corner of the Welsh Marches where they offer bed, breakfast
and dinner with a difference!
Lower Buckton Country House has
become a Private Restaurant with Rooms offering award
winning breakfasts and delicious dinners prepared using
home-grown vegetables and fruit from the kitchen garden,
home-reared free-range Berkshire pork and free-range eggs - all
from Lower Buckton. Anything else is locally sought, bought or
caught including wild venison from the woods, game from a
local shooting estate, lamb and beef from the neighbouring farms
and free-range poultry, duck and goose from friends 'up the road'.
Slow Food is taken very seriously.
Lower Buckton is a multi-national supermarket-free zone and
shopping is done at local, privately owned, independent businesses
and producers in Leintwardine village (one and half miles) or the
market towns of Knighton (seven miles) and Ludlow (ten miles).
Low Food Miles = Slow Food!
"The food we serve at Lower Buckton is important to us and we
hope, important to you! You may have travelled miles to get here,
but our food hasn't"
Keep it Local!
Lower Buckton is the perfect place for
Herefordshire House Parties
- Carolyn's the cook (with much accomplishment and experience) and
Henry's the butler (with much aplomb!). There's a large dining
room with a fine oak table which has witnessed many a gourmet
dinner party, a drawing room hung with family portraits and
inherited antique furniture, a cavernous cellar in which to store
your own wines (there's no license to sell alcohol, so do bring
your own!) and beyond the green, baize door lies the kitchen
dominated by Carolyn's beloved four-oven 1950s AGA which is always
hot and ready to cook!
The comfortable
bedrooms have
fine views across unspoilt countryside and eclectic collections of
antique furniture, portraits, pictures and books. Lots of vintage
fabrics, downy feather quilts and pillows, cotton and linen
sheets, fresh flowers, tins of homemade biscuits, bowls of fruit,
proper leaf teas, herbals and ground coffee with fresh milk,
CD/DVD/radio, generous towels, fluffy bathrobes, handmade soaps
and lots of special extras.
The quiet, secluded gardens have an east lawn for badminton and
clock golf, a sunny south facing terrace for outdoor eating -
perfect for lazy morning breakfasts and Indian summer
evening-dining and barbeques - there are a huge cedar wood table,
a collection of chairs shaded with Chinese parasols and coloured
glass lanterns hung in the trees. The south lawn stretches down to
the mill-stream providing peaceful spots for day-dreaming in the
shadow of the old seventeenth century stone mill building.
Follow the wide, oak foot-bridge over the millstream and across
the ha-ha which leads to the meadow where there's a croquet court
for the more energetic. Here are also the kitchen garden where
guests can choose their own vegetables for dinner, the horses'
paddocks and beyond the hawthorn hedge is the Teme with three
miles' of fishing. Take a riverside walk to a local pub, a
farmland walk past an ancient heronry or a parkland walk through
an historic country estate - bring your own bike, boots or horse.
Lower Buckton is open to guests all year round including
Christmas and New Year
and is the ideal venue for house-party gatherings with family and
friends for birthday celebrations, anniversaries and
get-togethers. The site makes a perfect backdrop for
country wedding receptions and
private garden parties with a pavilion on the lawn or a
splendid Indian tent in the meadow...................... fabulous
food, cool drinks and a babbling brook.............what bliss!!
Visit our
Media Studies page to see what
the press has to say about Lower Buckton.
We also specialise in Equine Tourism with
Holidays
with Your Own Horse. Bring Your Own Horse Holidays have
become more and more popular for those wishing to get away from
dodging the traffic along the same old main road - come and
experience real riding off the beaten track - you and your horse
will love it!
Read what the Sunday Telegraph has to say about Leintwardine
