Barrowden is a charming and quintessentially English village, the green, chestnut trees, the pub, the pond and the church all grouped around its heart. The pub sells well known real ales along with its own prize-winning beer brewed on the premises. Rutland is an area of outstanding beauty. with honey coloured stone villages, ancient churches, small lanes, beautiful woods and fields, attractive market towns. It remains relatively unknown and unspoilt, part of “ hidden England”.

Nearby - the pretty villages of Harringworth (longest Victorian viaduct in Britain), Wakerley, Morcott, Duddington, and the Luffenhams. Local activities include riding, cycling, golfing, walking, and on Rutland Water (largest man-made lake in Europe, with a great bird reserve at Egleton, scene of the Annual International Bird fair) there is fishing, sailing, wind surfing, birdwatching and angling.