B&B · Kelmscott
Manor Farm B&B
A late seventeenth-century farmhouse B&B with three en-suite rooms on a working farm in Kelmscott, with a shepherd's hut and a pod, each with its own wood-fired hot tub, in the meadow across the lane.
Family-friendly · Walker-friendly · Hot tubs
A family farmhouse B&B a few minutes' walk from Kelmscott Manor and the Thames Path, and good value at 2026 prices. Families are welcome in the house; the hut and pod, with their hot tubs, are for adults only.
- Good: A farmhouse of the late 1600s on a working farm of 315 acres
- Good: Children welcome in the B&B; travel cot and high chair
- Good: Hut and pod with private wood-fired hot tubs, March to October
- Worth knowing: No dogs or pets, in the house or the glamping
- Worth knowing: Hut and pod are over-18s only, minimum two nights
- Worth knowing: Closed about 20 December to 5 January; no shop in the village
About
Manor Farm is a late seventeenth-century farmhouse on the edge of Kelmscott, with views over open country and the Thames a short walk away. The family have farmed here for several generations, 315 acres of arable and livestock, and the house is a few minutes from Kelmscott Manor, William Morris's summer home.
The B&B has three en-suite rooms in the farmhouse: the Dovecot Room, a double with a bath; the Willow Room, a double with a walk-in shower; and the Garden Room, a family room with a double and a single and space for a cot. Guests share a large sitting room, log fires are lit in winter, and breakfast uses local produce and homemade bread. The farm's Farm Stay UK listing adds wifi, check-in from 4.30pm and check-out by 10.30am, and says pets are not accepted. In 2026 a double costs £100 and a twin £110 a night with breakfast, and singles start at £80.
Across the lane in a meadow are an oak shepherd's hut with a log burner and a pod, each with a shower room, a small kitchen with two gas rings, a barbecue and a wood-fired hot tub screened from the other. They open from March to October for adults only, with a two-night minimum; at the 2026 rates for March to Easter and October, two nights cost £220 in the hut and £250 in the pod. A breakfast pack with eggs from the farm's hens is included, and a cooked breakfast pack for two costs £14. Arrival is between 5pm and 7pm unless arranged. There is no television, and drinking water is bottled because the hut supply is not drinkable. No pets are taken in either; the village has no street lighting.
The Thames Path and the Oxfordshire cycle route pass the village, and the Plough is the pub for supper. Kelmscott has no shop; Lechlade is three miles off.
The details
- Serving
- Breakfast
- Rooms
- 3
- Check-in
- B&B from 4.30pm; hut and pod 5pm to 7pm
- Check-out
- B&B by 10.30am
- Minimum stay
- B&B open all year except about 20 December to 5 January. Shepherd's hut and pod: two nights, March to October.
- Features
- Parking · Garden or terrace · Open fire · Family rooms · Wi-Fi
- History
- Late 17th-century farmhouse, with later additions
- Parking
- Ample off-road parking at the farmhouse.
Photos
The garden by the farmhouse 
The shepherd's hut in the meadow 
The pod and its hot tub 
The huts and pod from above
Location
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- Kelmscott Manor
- The Plough, Kelmscott 0.1 km away
- Buscot Park 2.3 km away
- Cotswold Boat Hire, Buscot Lock 2.4 km away
Sights nearby
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St Mary's Church, Buscot
Sight · Church · Lechlade-on-Thames
Buscot's small thirteenth-century church by the Thames below Lechlade, with a full set of Morris & Co. windows designed by Edward Burne-Jones from 1892 to 1924, a zigzag chancel arch and the Loveden monuments by Robert Cooke. Grade I.
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Father Thames and St John's Lock
Sight · Monument · Lechlade-on-Thames
Raffaelle Monti's reclining river god, modelled in cement for the Crystal Palace in 1854, beside St John's Lock below Lechlade, the first lock on the Thames. He lay at the river's source from 1958 until vandals drove him here in 1974. Grade II.
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St Lawrence's Church, Lechlade
Sight · Church · Lechlade-on-Thames
Lechlade's wool church on the Market Place, rebuilt in Taynton stone in the 1470s, with a spire seen across the Thames meadows and a churchyard that moved Shelley to verse in 1815. Grade I; closed for restoration through 2026, with reopening expected by Christmas.
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River Thames at Lechlade
Sight · River · Lechlade-on-Thames
The young Thames at Lechlade, where the Coln and the Leach join it and the old Thames and Severn Canal met it at the Round House: long the head of the navigable river, with the Thames Path past Halfpenny Bridge to St John's Lock.