Best Places to Stay,
Award Winner
Winner!!!
We are so incredibly delighted to be included in The Times' 100 Best Places to Stay in Britain for 2023.
This annual list of Britain’s 100 Best Places to Stay was published on Sunday 4th December 2022 and it is such a thrill to have been featured.
Our sincere thanks to Susan d'Arcy for taking the time to stay at The Tawny and for her kind and encouraging comments. We opened The Tawny in July 2021 and it has been our pleasure to welcome guests from all over the UK and beyond, to our quiet corner of Staffordshire.
What They Said
'This not-so-secret garden hotel outside Stoke-on-Trent delivers a fairytale fantasy for nature lovers.
A 70-acre estate of tumbledown follies, soft-focus flower borders, glassy lakes and landscaped gardens has been resuscitated by two local couples, Fran and William Scott-Moncrieff and Ben and Sarah Reeves, who played here as children.
With sustainability centre stage, they’ve assembled a range of accommodation from humble shepherds’ huts to swanky hillside treehouses between oak, beech and birch groves, and added a split-level restaurant and a woodland spa to give forest bathing an epic Cleopatra twist.
A stay here works just as well for courting couples as it does for adventurous families.'
'Our lives are overcrowded, over-excited, over-strained.
We all want quiet. We all want beauty. We all need space.
Unless we have it we cannot reach that sense of quiet in which whispers of better things come to us gently.'
Words of Octavia Hill
Co-founder of the National Trust
125 years ago
A Hotel Like No Other
Relax in nature. Located in the heart of rural Staffordshire, escape to the The Tawny and let the surrounding landscape envelop you.
Explore woodland, stroll through lakeside gardens, find peace in secluded dells and delight in enchanting follies. 70 acres of exploration await you.
Discover new experiences. Bathe outside under starlit skies, enjoy the perfect picnic, share a relaxed meal with incomparable views and unwind in the comfort of your unique room.
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