Hotel · Stroud
The Bear of Rodborough
A seventeenth-century former coaching inn on the National Trust's Rodborough Common above Stroud, now a hotel in the Cotswold Inns and Hotels group, with dogs welcome.
Dog-friendly · Walker-friendly · Wedding venues
Up on the common with walks from the door, and dogs welcome in the bar, the garden and their own rooms. Cattle graze the common, so drive slowly.
- Good: Walks across Rodborough Common from the door
- Good: Dogs in the Country Rooms, the bar and the garden: £20 a night, £10 for a second dog
- Good: Free parking and breakfast included
- Worth knowing: Dogs are not allowed in the Library Restaurant
- Worth knowing: Steps throughout the hotel; no lift
- Worth knowing: Cattle graze the open common
About
The Bear of Rodborough is a hotel in a seventeenth-century former coaching inn on Rodborough Common, the National Trust grassland above Stroud. It belongs to the Cotswold Inns and Hotels group. Rooms range from cosy doubles to a four-poster suite, and some of the superior rooms look across the common and the Woodchester valley. Breakfast is included: 8am to 9.30am on Mondays, 7.30am to 9.30am Tuesday to Friday and 8am to 10am at weekends. Historic England lists the building at Grade II, a former coaching inn with a late 17th-century core.
The Library Restaurant opens every day for breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner, with seasonal British cooking, a Sunday roast, fish and chips with a drink for £20 on Thursdays from 5pm and two pizzas for £25 on Fridays from 4pm to 7pm. The Pavilion Garden Bar opens in good weather. The hotel holds weddings, with rooms licensed for the ceremony.
Dogs stay in the Country Rooms for £20 a night, plus £10 for each extra dog, and can join you in the bar and garden but not the restaurant. Walkers can head straight out onto the common; our Rodborough Common walk passes the fort. Cattle graze the common and can wander onto its roads, so drive slowly.
The details
- Serving
- Breakfast · Lunch · Afternoon tea · Dinner · Sunday lunch
- Booking a table
- Booking recommended
- Check-in
- From 3pm
- Check-out
- By 11am
- Features
- Restaurant · Bar · Garden or terrace · Views · Parking · Dogs in rooms · Dogs inside · Events and meetings
- History
- Late 17th-century former coaching inn, Grade II listed
- Parking
- Free car park for guests, with spaces kept for guests with mobility needs; ask when booking. lastminute.com lists an electric vehicle charging station.
Photos
The hotel from the road 
The bar 
A garden view 
The restaurant
Location
Accessibility
- Assistance dogs welcome
- Large print available
Steps throughout the hotel, including to the Country House rooms. Ground-floor rooms have walk-in showers, though the hotel does not describe them as accessible. Designated parking for guests with mobility needs, and help with luggage. Call 01453 878522 before booking to talk through needs.
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- Winstones Ice Cream, Rodborough Common 0.3 km away
- Stroud Brewery 0.8 km away
- The Black Horse, Amberley 1.1 km away
- Old Fleece apartments 1.2 km away
Sights nearby
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Minchinhampton Common
Sight · Common or park · Minchinhampton
Minchinhampton Common is a wide sweep of limestone grassland above Stroud and Nailsworth, in the care of the National Trust since 1913, where commoners' cattle graze and an Iron Age bank, a long barrow, pillow mounds and wartime trenches lie in the turf. Free to wander.
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Rodborough Common
Sight · Common or park · Stroud and the Five Valleys
Open limestone grassland on the hill between Stroud and the Golden Valley, owned by the National Trust, known for rare pasqueflowers in spring, early purple orchids in May and over 30 kinds of butterfly, grazed by commoners’ cattle, with Rodborough Fort on its brow.
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Rodborough Fort
Sight · Historic building · Stroud and the Five Valleys
Rodborough Fort is a battlemented house on the brow of Rodborough Common above Stroud, begun as a folly for Captain Hawker in 1761 and enlarged in 1870 with a four-storey tower, turreted curtain walls and a small chapel. Grade II; a private house, seen from the common.
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Whitfield's Tump, Minchinhampton Common
Sight · Hill fort or barrow · Minchinhampton
Whitfield's Tump is a Neolithic long barrow on Minchinhampton Common, a low mound 26m long where early farmers buried their dead, named from the tradition that the preacher George Whitefield spoke from it in 1743. A scheduled monument on free National Trust land.