Short stay: Chestnut Cottage, Arbor Holiday and Knightcote Farm Cottages, Warwickshire

Our latest stay was at Chestnut Cottage close to the wonderfully-named village of Bishops Itchington – a VisitEngland 5 Star Gold Award property located just a short distance from the M40 motorway in Warwickshire, and listed on the Premier Cottages website.

The cottage is a converted outbuilding situated on a working arable farm where the main crops are wheat, barley, oil seed rape, field beans, peas and linseed.

The welcome

Although the property was all ready for us on arrival, owner Fiona Walker came to personally meet and welcome us on arrival which was a lovely touch, particularly since we’d had an awful journey that took six hours rather than the usual three! We were in the area for a sailing competition that our…