Bruern Holiday Cottages - Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England

National Winners of VisitBritain's Excellence in England Gold and Silver Awards for Self-Catering Holiday of the year 1998 and 2003. Bruern Cottages are the finest self-catering properties, not just in the Cotswolds but in the whole of Great Britain.

The twelve cottages were converted from the Victorian stable yard and outbuildings of Bruern Abbey. They are stylish, luxurious and unusually well equipped, country houses in miniature, with open fires and four poster beds as well as state-of-the-art bathrooms and kitchens. They sleep two to ten. Each has a private enclosed terrace and many have their own secluded gardens.

In the beautifully landscaped communal gardens and grounds there is tennis, croquet and swimming. Children have their own special play area with a two storey playhouse, a climbing frame and an indoor playroom. There are wonderful wildlife walks in the neighbouring Nature Reserve at Foxholes and along the Oxfordshire Way, which runs through Bruern.