The tranquil and tiny village of Adlestrop lies virtually on the border of the Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Warwickshire Cotswolds.

A peaceful rural village, Adlestrop numbers no more than 80 residents, boasts its own beautiful church dating back to the 13th century and numbers Jane Austen as a former visitor to the rectory, now Adlestrop House, where her uncle had a living. It is believed that Austen used Adlestrop as a model for at least one location in her novel 'Mansfield Park'.

And last, but not least, the poem 'Adlestrop' by Edward Thomas:

Yes. I remember Adlestrop—
The name, because one afternoon
Of heat the express-train drew up there
Unwontedly. It was late June.

The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat.
No one left and no one came
On the bare platform. What I saw
Was Adlestrop—only the name

And willows, willow-herb, and grass,
And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry,
No whit less still and lonely fair
Than the high cloudlets in the sky.

And for that minute a blackbird sang
Close by, and round him, mistier,
Farther and farther, all the birds
Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.

Less than a mile from Oxfordshire and two from Warwickshire, there are wonderful walks on the doorstep (the MacMillan Way runs through the village) and an extraordinary choice of famously beautiful National Trust houses and gardens only a short drive away. We are also perfectly located to explore some of the jewel-like villages that make the Cotswolds one of the UK's most popular regions. Chipping Campden, Stow on the Wold, Moreton in Marsh, The Slaughters, Bourton on the Water are all within a maximum of 20 minutes' drive away. Famously and historically rich from the wool trade, many towns and villages in the Cotswolds also have significant and very beautiful church buildings.