Rural Retreats was founded in 1985 with the aim of making the countryside more accessible for holidaymakers and giving them the best possible choice of holiday homes across the UK. Rural Retreats’ continuing success is based on excellent local knowledge and painstaking research, together with a flair for finding delightful and unusual properties. All of this has enabled us to build a portfolio of over 450 exceptionally fine holiday homes in stunningly beautiful locations, all available for you to rent. When you are looking for your own perfect holiday home, our experienced and helpful staff can help to point you to the property of your dreams. Whatever you want to ask about any of our properties, there will be someone on our staff who knows the cottage or apartment at first hand.

Bearwood House and Bearwood Cottage are elegant half-timbered properties adjacent to each other set in an idyllic setting near Pembridge. Enjoy endless entertainment provided by the hot tub, games room, arboretum, loggia, sunken garden, Wii, 6 bicycles (including a tandem), croquet, boules and much more.

Information correct at time of writing. The 15th century New Inn, village shop, delicatessen and farm shop are one mile away in the picturesque "black and white" village of Pembridge. The excellent Cider Barn restaurant is within walking distance, the renowned Stagg Inn is a short drive and the gastronomic Elizabethan town towns of Ludlow 25 minutes. There are numerous festivals throughout the year including the world famous literary Hay Festival, Ludlow Food Festival, Leominster Festival and Presteigne Music Festival. Play golf at Kington, England’s highest golf course with stunning views over mid Wales Wander around the beautiful Berrington Hall, a fine house created by Henry Holland. Explore Hampton Court gardens and maze or Croft Castle, home of the Croft family for nearly 1000 years with many stories to uncover. There are a host of other lovely homes and gardens to visit such as Hergest Gardens, Bryan’s ground, Ludlow Castle and Hereford Cathedral. To try something new why not visit Monkland Cheese Dairy, a working dairy farm where you can learn and discover the methods of cheese production with an experience day. Visit Dunkerton’s Cider Mill, makers of traditional organic Cider and Perry or the market town of Leominster with it’s many antique shops.