Parking at Pen-y-Dyffryn Country Hotel, Oswestry

This former Georgian Rectory is now an award winning Country House Hotel recommended by most of the UK's leading guide books. Pen-y-Dyffryn was recently awarded the Cesar Best Country Hotel of the Year Award 2003 by the prestigious Good Hotel Guide and Rural Retreat Hotel 2004 by the Which? Hotel Guide. The hotel successfully captures that elusive combination of unobtrusive hospitality, high standards of service and accommodation, first class food and healthy cooking and an easy going unpretentious style that guarantees that 'away from it all' feeling. Great walks from the hotel front door. A retreat and a hotel all in one. In a stunning location on the last hill in Shropshire, 100 yards from the Welsh border, this silver-stone Georgian Rectory is now a stylish country house hotel. In five acres of grounds, with no passing traffic, Pen-y-Dyffryn combines unobtrusive hospitality with high standards of service to guarantee that "away from it all” feeling. Pen-y-Dyffryn was chosen as “Country Hotel of the Year” by The Good Hotel Guide, and “Rural Retreat of the Year” by The Which Hotel Guide. We have also been nominated as Johansen’s “Best Value Hotel”. Harden’s Hotel Guides gave us their top marks throughout, a distinction granted to only 27 hotels in the whole of Britain, Ireland, New York and Paris! The restaurant has two AA rosettes. Some bedrooms have en-suite Jacuzzis, those in The Coach-House have private patios, The star of the piece, however, is the hotel's hillside setting facing the Welsh mountains to the west. “Sundowners” are a must! The National Trust properties of Powis Castle, Chirk Castle, Attingham and Erddig are all nearby, as is Wales’ highest waterfall and beautiful Lake Vyrnwy. The medieval towns of Shrewsbury and Chester are both within half an hour. Excellent hill walking. Pets welcome.