• While ideal for four, Holly Cottage can sleep a family of six.
• Downstairs is an open plan living/dining room with wood stove, TV, music centre, books, games, local maps and guides.
• furnished SW facing conservatory, heated in winter
• totally enclosed large patio garden for barbecue, outdoor dining.
• From the patio there is access to a large lawn.
• 2 double bedrooms upstairs, plus double sofabed in the living room
• Only 6 miles south from the centre of Bath

We provide a welcome basket of snacks, and offer a service to buy in up to 15 food items to get you through the first day or so, and can have a hot meal ready for your arrival.

The situation is quite exceptional; the view from the main rooms is just idyllic, overlooking a medieval packhorse bridge and ford, with the murmur of the Wellow Brook, and fields and hills beyond.

Wellow is a small community that values an old-world, informal environment with no street lighting. There is trail horse riding and ponies for children. St. Julians is a fine 14th century church.

The Fox & Badger offers good bar meals (occasional quizzes/bowls). The village shop has good wines, cheeses and local fare. Wellow is off the main roads, a tranquil haven, well placed for easy access to Bath, Bristol and the surrounding beautiful countryside.

Bath is a world-renowned spa town, with Roman baths, a fine abbey, Georgian architecture, Regency crescents and squares, museums, art galleries, antique shops, theatres and international music, literature and fringe festivals. Shopping is excellent, with unusual shops and a farmers' market and excellent restaurants.

All of this is walkable within a square mile in the centre of the city, served by a convenient 'park & ride' 2½ miles from Wellow. Bus service from Wellow to Bath.

The area offers opportunities for walks or picnics by stream or wood and is good for bird watching and cycling. You can see small deer and occasionally a badger, buzzards and herons. Horseback riding is available at the nearby Wellow Stables and a mile walk takes you to the 5,500 year-old Stoney Littleton megalithic long-barrow, one of the best preserved in the country. For children there are safe paddling in the stream, playing "Pooh Sticks" from the bridge and an adventure playground in Bath.

The river Avon offers boat trips and the Kennet & Avon Canal is easy for level walking or cycling through varied countryside.