Hampton Manor

Hampton Manor

At Hampton Manor, breakfast can arrive still warm from the walled garden that has fed the kitchen since Victorian times, and dinner is often built around what the chefs pulled from that same soil that morning. This is a 24-room estate outside Solihull, adults only, spread across 45 acres and run on 100% renewable energy, with its own cookery school and artisan bakery alongside two restaurants: Grace & Savour, which holds a Michelin star, and the more relaxed, fire-cooked Kynd. Rooms sit either in the original Manor House, with roaring fires, a games room and a bar, or in the Walled Garden Suites, where hand-cast concrete baths look out toward the kitchen preparing dinner. A four-bedroom cottage overlooking the garden suits a family or group wanting its own space, a short walk from the restaurants. Those who understand this place find their way to the table, as the estate itself puts it, and a room here is only half the story: the garden, bakery and cookery school are the reason the rooms exist. Guests chasing a lively bar scene or a large hotel's anonymity should look elsewhere; this suits people who plan a trip around one serious meal and want to sleep a short walk from the kitchen that made it. Solihull city centre is five kilometres away. Between meals there is a library, a billiards room and a spa, plus concierge staff and luggage storage for arrivals straight off the train. Choose a Tuesday check-in for the two-night stay that strings the whole estate together, from garden tours to the tasting room, and the separate pieces of Hampton Manor click into one coherent visit. A 45-acre Warwickshire estate built around a Victorian walled garden, with a Michelin-starred restaurant, its own bakery and cookery school, and just 24 adults-only rooms. Solihull is five kilometres away, though the kitchen is the real reason to come.