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THE COTSWOLDS
The Pig and The Village Pub
The Pig’s pen is expanding with Barnsley House and its village pub near Cirencester due to open as part of the restaurant-with-rooms group this summer. The hotel already has a working kitchen garden to supply the restaurant; its spa will allow more than the Pig’s usual Potting Shed massages. Sign up on the website to get alerts as soon as bookings open. Two other piggies are planned, with The Pig on the Farm, Stratford-Upon-Avon, due at the end of the year, and The Pig at Groombridge, Tunbridge Wells, next summer. Pig heaven indeed.
→ Prices yet to be set; thepighotel.com
SCOTLAND
The Haven at Plockton
There’s more room at the Inn at Plockton in the Northwest Highlands, which has just opened The Haven in the adjacent building, adding 20 modern rooms to an existing dozen. Explore the countryside around the beautiful bay of Loch Carron, which is just down the street, then return to feast on freshly caught langoustines for dinner.
→ Rooms from £119, with breakfast; plocktoninn.co.uk
OXFORD
The Store
The name says it all – a hotel in a former department store. What was Boswells in the heart of Oxford is metamorphosing into a 101-room hotel with rooftop bar and subterranean spa. When it opens in May you can expect velvet headboards and panelled walls, along with views of the dreaming spires of Oxford from the upper
