Luxury self-catering accommodation in England

We know a place where scholars roam collegial streets. Where, all at once, wellies are speckled with sand and crowns are laid with sapphires. There’s chips to be eaten in locales where the very air is filled with salt, and cream teas that send farmhouse tables buckling under the weight of clotted cream and jam. With a pub culture that fuels even the most secluded hamlet and Saxon kingdoms that sprout up next to streams, our luxury self-catering accommodation in England brings village markets piled high with wares and Wensleydale, and always puds and gravy on Sundays. Try your hand at palaeontology in Dorset, or zip to the sea for a surf retreat; all in one place.

From Austen to Tolkien, Brontë to Milne, the world’s most celebrated authors made a literary canvas of England; from fantastical tales of honey-hungry bears who lived deep in the woods of East Sussex to tumultuous novels set against the wild Yorkshire moors. There’s stately manors where big groups can gather with a private chef, and there’s diddy stone cottages where two can while away a romantic weekend with the dog at their feet. At each curving corner of Old Blighty, from Cornwall’s wild and windswept beaches to the five shires of the Cotswolds to the Alps of Britain (The Lake District), we have homes as unique as the land they lay on.