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Nailsworth has self check-in rooms in the town, an inn in an old cloth mill, inns on Minchinhampton Common and at Kingscote, and self-catering among the vines at Woodchester.
7 places
Inn · Nailsworth
A Grade II* listed former mill in Nailsworth, with its waterwheel and mill pond, now a hotel, pub and restaurant with 28 bedrooms, open from breakfast every day.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly · Wedding venues
Verified Nov 2026
Inn · Nailsworth
A coaching inn at Kingscote, about 5 miles by road south-west of Nailsworth, with 13 rooms in a converted stable block, a beer garden and a play area.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly · Walker-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
Self-catering · Nailsworth
Three self-catering apartments behind the Old Fleece pub at Rooksmoor, between Nailsworth and Stroud, with an EV charging point and the garden.
EV charging
Verified Nov 2026
Inn · Nailsworth
An inn with 13 en-suite rooms on the hillside above the Woodchester valley at Amberley, near Nailsworth and Stroud, which describes itself as a restored 16th-century inn.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
Inn · Nailsworth
An inn with six rooms on Minchinhampton Common, about two miles by road from Nailsworth, breakfast included and food all day.
Walker-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
B&B · Nailsworth
Five self-check-in rooms and suites and two apartments at 3 Cossack Square, Nailsworth, run since 2007 by the team behind the restaurant Wilder.
Verified Nov 2026
Self-catering · Nailsworth
Three barn suites for two, a two-bedroom farmhouse and a six-bedroom house among the vines at Woodchester Valley Vineyard, near Nailsworth.
Dog-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
Wild Garlic has five rooms and suites and two apartments at 3 Cossack Square, with self check-in, across the road from its sister restaurant Wilder. Egypt Mill, a Grade II* listed mill with a waterwheel from before 1820, is now a pub, restaurant and inn with 28 bedrooms.
The Old Lodge on Minchinhampton Common, once the golf clubhouse, has six rooms with breakfast, and The Amberley Inn, recorded from 1855, has 13 bedrooms over the Woodchester valley. Cattle are let out on the common each spring, so drive slowly.
Woodchester Valley Vineyard lets barn suites, a retreat and a six-bedroom house beside its winery, some taking dogs, and the Old Fleece at Rooksmoor has apartments behind the pub.
Hunters Hall at Kingscote, about three miles away, is a sixteenth-century coaching inn with 13 rooms in its old stables, and dog rooms booked ahead.
Nailsworth's independent shops line Market Street, Fountain Street and George Street, and Woodchester Mansion is close by, and Dunkirk Mill's working waterwheel will be again when its museum reopens for the season each spring. The Nailsworth Festival runs for a week each May; in 2026 it opened with a market day round Mortimer Gardens, and the next dates had not been announced when we checked, so book early once they are.
The 63 runs from Stroud and Gloucester every day, including Sundays, and the 40 links the town with Stroud and Wotton-under-Edge. Stroud station is about 4 miles away. For other bases, see where to stay in the Cotswolds.
William's, a seafood restaurant, fishmonger and deli, has been in Nailsworth for nearly fifty years, and Wilder is across the road from the Wild Garlic rooms. On Wednesday mornings Minchinhampton holds a country market in its Market House of 1698, a short drive up the hill.
For breakfast, Hobbs House Bakery's café on George Street opens at 8.30am, Monday to Saturday. Near the town, Woodchester Valley Vineyard runs booked tours and tastings, and its cellar door shop on the A46 at Inchbrook opens Monday to Saturday all year and on Sundays from March to December. For the day, see things to do in Stroud and the Five Valleys, and for meals, places to eat in Stroud and the Five Valleys.
For food in the town itself, see places to eat in Nailsworth.
Walks and sights within reach of your room.
Walk · Starts in Nailsworth · 2 hrs · Circular
A 3.75-mile (6km) circular walk without stiles from the National Trust car park at Woodchester Park, moderate and about two hours: down past the unfinished Victorian mansion, along the valley to Middle Pond, back by the boathouse on Old Pond and steadily up through the woods.
Sight · Historic building · Nailsworth
The boathouse on Old Pond in Woodchester Park is a small rustic building of about 1820, probably by John Adey Repton for the first Earl Ducie, with a boat dock below and a timber oriel over the boat opening. Grade II; seen from the path over the dam.
Walk · Starts in Stroud and the Five Valleys · 45 mins · Circular · Dog-friendly
A 2-mile (3.4km) circular walk on Rodborough Common above Stroud, easy, nearly level and about 45 minutes: up to the battlemented folly of Rodborough Fort, down the open western edge, and back past the Bear and an ice-cream stop. Grassy, and grazed by cattle.
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At Wild Garlic on Cossack Square, in Egypt Mill's old cloth mill, or on Minchinhampton Common at the Old Lodge or the Amberley Inn.
Yes, in barn suites for two, a two-bedroom retreat or a six-bedroom house beside the winery.
The 63 runs from Stroud and Gloucester every day, including Sundays.
A small valley town 4 miles south of Stroud with old cloth mills, independent shops and some of the best food in the Cotswolds, a 1952 clock tower, a level railway path to Stroud and the commons on the hill above.
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