B&B · Charlbury
Banbury Hill Farm
A former farm on the Enstone Road a mile outside Charlbury, with eight ground-floor B&B rooms in a converted piggery, four self-catering cottages and a seven-bedroom farmhouse.
Dog-friendly · Walker-friendly · EV charging
A practical base for a walking break: ground-floor rooms, breakfast in the farm café, dogs welcome and a footpath into Charlbury and its station. It is a converted farmyard rather than a village house, and next to a busy campsite in summer.
- Good: Eight en-suite B&B rooms, all on the ground floor
- Good: Breakfast included, at the Old Shed café on the farm
- Good: Up to two pets welcome; free parking and Wi-Fi
- Good: A permissive path into Charlbury, about 20 minutes on foot
- Worth knowing: Beside Cotswold View campsite, which is busy from spring to autumn
- Worth knowing: No prices published; rates are in the booking system
About
Banbury Hill Farm stands among 54 acres of wooded farmland on the Enstone Road, a mile from Charlbury, looking over the Evenlode valley towards Wychwood Forest. It was a working farm; the stone barns are now holiday lets, and the Cotswold View campsite shares the land.
The bed and breakfast is in the Piggery, the old pig sties, now eight en-suite rooms on one floor, each with a king-size bed or twin beds, tea and coffee things and Wi-Fi. Breakfast, continental or cooked, is served across the yard at the Old Shed café and is included. Check-in is from 2.30pm and check-out by 11am, and up to two pets may come. The farm’s site lists free parking with electric car charging. The Old Shed is also a walk-in café, open every day from 8am (7.30am Friday to Sunday) to 4pm, and closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day.
For self-catering there are four cottages made from the old stone barn, the corn store and the hayloft. Wychwood Cottage is a one-up, one-down for two, with the bedroom looking over the Evenlode valley; Evenlode and Knapp have two bedrooms and sleep four, and Pintle has two bedrooms and sleeps five. The cottages take up to two dogs, with check-in from 3pm and check-out by 11am. The seven-bedroom farmhouse sleeps 14, with a wood burner, a dining room that seats 14 and a fire pit in a fenced garden, and parking for five cars; it takes two dogs, downstairs only and for a fee, with check-in at 4pm and check-out at 10am.
Sheep, pygmy goats and donkeys share the farm. A permissive path leads into town in about 20 minutes, for the pubs, the Charlbury Museum and the station, with direct trains from Paddington in a little over an hour.
The details
- Serving
- Breakfast
- Rooms
- 8
- Check-in
- From 2.30pm
- Check-out
- By 11am
- Features
- Parking · Wi-Fi · Dogs in rooms · Café
- Parking
- Free parking on the farm, with electric car charging.
Photos
A twin room in the Piggery 
A sitting and dining room 
The drive in evening light 
The farm from the air
Location
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- Cotswold View Caravan and Camping Park
- Cotswolds Camping 1.2 km away
- The Missing Bean, Charlbury 1.6 km away
- Charlbury Museum 1.6 km away