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Pen-y-Dyffryn Country Hotel

A silver-stone rectory in the hills where Shropshire meets Wales

Countryside Manor ★★★★ Rhydycroesau, near Oswestry, Shropshire

The setting of Pen-y-Dyffryn Country Hotel — Location image, not the property. DeFacto / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Pen-y-Dyffryn is a former Georgian rectory of silver-grey stone, set in five acres of grounds high in the hills on the Shropshire–Wales border. Its most quietly remarkable feature is the absence of a through road: there is no passing traffic, and the quiet is close to total.

It is a small operation, family-run in feel, and the kitchen has held two AA Rosettes continuously for more than two decades — the longest unbroken run of any establishment in the county. Some rooms sit in the main house, others in converted outbuildings with private patios.

Offa's Dyke Path passes close by, Oswestry's Iron Age hillfort is a short drive, and the Berwyn mountains and Llangollen lie just over the border into Wales.

At a glance

What to expect

Five acres of grounds
Two AA Rosette restaurant
No passing traffic
Coach house rooms with patios
Dog-friendly
Border hills walking
Log fires
Free parking

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