Clapton Manor a luxury Cotswolds B & B

01/12/2024

With a Danish father, I suppose it is not surprising that I have grown up with these Christmas candles

01/12/2024

The first Sunday in advent.

I am never quite sure about the full on green and red that traditionally is about Christmas so until nearer the time I always keep my advent ring on the green side.

29/11/2024

St James’s Church and a wizard in our village took this photograph when it was snowing the other day and apparently did some night for day adjusting or a phrase similar to that and then added those lanterns. So clever. But the church is real! And it is very small quite possibly the smallest in Gloucestershire

19/11/2024

A little bit of snow changes everything

19/11/2024

19/11/2024

View from the bedroom window in The Barn

31/10/2024

A suitable picture maybe for All Hallows Eve….

18/10/2024

Sit by the fire with tea and cake or scones…

Also, if you want to go to Christmas light festivals now is the time to book and

17/10/2024

Autumn weekends in The Cotswolds beckon with cake and tea in front of the fire

12/10/2024

And there is so much pink at this time of year. Just lovely temperature at the moment. Perfect for walking

12/10/2024

And more pink!

12/10/2024

And the last pink one!

11/10/2024

And so autumn begins and this weekend seems to be set fair for wonderful walking with blue skies and no rain

22/08/2024

But, look at this! And this photograph is the reason for the dull one yesterday

A kind soul in our village who understands Facebook saw that someone in Bourton-on-the-Water had posted this picture.. she has the original and it was a photograh belonging to her grandmother.

What it shows, however, is that there WAS a door there! And all windows leaded of course..

I have non-existent knowledge on 19th century dress so I do not know what decade this picture was taken in

But it is rather amazing to find that there is a photograph out there showing that there was a door


on the Hill

21/08/2024

This is a very dull wintry picture of the corner of our house.

However, what is visible in the winter is the small bit that sticks out towards the viewer.

Someone told us once, since the front bit was the oldest part of the house, that it would have been the main entrance as you would have entered through a door (which is no longer) and you would have turned right. To turn left would not have been a good thing…(Latin for left = sinister and evil and thus not a good way to turn, etc..etc…)

16/08/2024

The bluest of skies and away from the hurly burly of the more popular Cotswold villages, Clapton-on-the-Hill is incredibly quiet.



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08/06/2024

St James’s Church, Clapton-on-the-Hill

08/06/2024

I am not sure, but I think this is called the Holy Rose and even if it isn’t, I’m going to carry on calling it that as it is planted at the front of our house facing the church of St James and so I think it’s very apt that that is possibly its name




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