B&B · North Nibley
Forthay Bed and Breakfast
A late seventeenth-century farmhouse B&B with four rooms for two in the hamlet of Forthay, below the Tyndale Monument at North Nibley, on the Cotswold Way.
Dog-friendly · Walker-friendly
A small, hosted farmhouse B&B on the Cotswold Way, made for walkers with dogs: dog beds, a dog shower and walks from the front door. With only four rooms it fills quickly, and you will want a car or a taxi for dinner.
- Good: On the Cotswold Way, below the Tyndale Monument
- Good: Dogs welcome, with beds, bowls and a heated dog shower; £15 a dog a night
- Good: A guest snug with a log burner and a licensed bar
- Good: Rooms from £105 a night, booked online
- Worth knowing: Four rooms only; Tyndale and Wallace & Gromit have private, not en-suite, bathrooms
- Worth knowing: Dogs cannot be left alone in rooms unless crated
About
Forthay is a late seventeenth-century stone farmhouse, listed Grade II, in a hamlet on the Cotswold Way just outside North Nibley, between Dursley and Wotton-under-Edge. The Tyndale Monument stands on the hill above it. Debs and Charles live in the house and run the B&B themselves.
Its website lists four rooms, each for two: Pitman, a king-size double with an en-suite shower room; Tyndale, a king-size double with a private bathroom; Wallace & Gromit, a twin with a private shower room; and Super King, with an en-suite power shower. The owners list Pitman, Wallace & Gromit and Super King with garden views. Guests share a snug with a log burner, books and games, and a small licensed bar. Breakfast is a freshly cooked full English, with eggs from the hens in the garden and the house's own award-winning granola.
Dogs are welcome, two to a room unless agreed, at £15 a dog a night, with beds and bowls, a heated dog shower and a dog-safe garden; they cannot be left alone in the rooms unless crated. When we checked in October 2026, its website gave room prices from £105 to £130 a night. Sawday's lists parking on the premises.
The details
- Serving
- Breakfast
- Rooms
- 4
- Check-in
- From 3pm
- Check-out
- By 10am
- Features
- Bar · Garden or terrace · Views · Open fire · Wi-Fi · Parking · Dogs in rooms · Dogs inside
- History
- Late 17th-century Grade II listed farmhouse
Photos
A king-size double room 
Wallace & Gromit, the twin room 
The guest snug 
A full English breakfast
Location
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- Hunts Court Huts 0.3 km away
- The Old Spot Inn, Dursley 1.9 km away
- Dursley Heritage Centre 2.1 km away
- India Zones, Dursley 2.1 km away
Sights nearby
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Tyndale Monument, North Nibley
Sight · Monument · Wotton-under-Edge
The Tyndale Monument is the tower on Nibley Knoll above North Nibley, built in 1866 by S. S. Teulon in memory of William Tyndale, translator of the first printed English New Testament. Grade II*; usually open to climb, free, with a key nearby if locked.
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Brackenbury Ditches hill fort
Sight · Hill fort or barrow · Wotton-under-Edge
Brackenbury Ditches is an Iron Age hill fort in Westridge Wood on a spur of the Cotswold Edge above North Nibley, with a great inner rampart 3m high and a ditch 14m wide, unexcavated when surveyed in 1976 and now among the trees. Beside public footpaths through the wood.
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Jubilee Clump, Wotton Hill
Sight · Viewpoint · Wotton-under-Edge
Jubilee Clump is the walled ring of trees on Wotton Hill above Wotton-under-Edge, replanted in 1888 for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee on a spot said to have been first planted after Waterloo: a landmark and viewpoint on the Cotswold Way. Free.
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St Mary's Church, Wotton-under-Edge
Sight · Church · Wotton-under-Edge
St Mary's is Wotton-under-Edge's Grade I parish church, with late thirteenth-century arcades, a six-stage fourteenth-century tower, the brasses of Thomas, Lord Berkeley and his wife, and an organ bought in 1800. Open daily.