APOTHECARY'S BED & BREAKFAST

OUR HOSPITALITY includes… A first–class BREAKFAST, made up of local and organic produce where possible. ENGLISH BACON and award winning sausages from the village butcher, FREE RANGE EGGS from a local farm together with locally grown mushrooms. All the BREAD is HOME-BAKED and the marmalade is also home-made. We also provide EVENING MEAL if you would like one. This does need to be pre-booked before you come to us. We use home-grown vegetables and fruit in season, when available, from our garden. You will see from the photographs on this web-site that there are many attractive areas around Wellesbourne.

We have many country walks within just a few minutes from the house. So, if you like walking, bring your boots and step out from the house to explore the local countryside. We have some maps we will be happy to lend you, too. You may wonder why the house is called the Old Dispensary. Well, the story goes that in the early 1800’s, there were two doctors living in the village. One of them, who lived in the Red House in Chestnut Square, which is still there today, had all the wealthy patients in the area.

The other, who also lived in Chestnut Square, had very few paying patients. Those who couldn’t pay him, he didn’t visit, but summoned them to his “dispensary” as he called it, which was then just a barn, but is in fact the front of our house. The story continues that his favourite cure was to give them a token and send them round to the Stag’s Head pub to exchange for a pint of ale. The pub is still there and still serving excellent beer, but I am afraid we don’t provide any tokens!