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Located on the edge of Northumberland National Park, our luxury self-catering holiday cottages make an ideal base for exploring the Kingdom of Northumbria.
With uninterrupted views of the Cheviot Hills, a wealth of wildlife on its doorstep, and the babble of two burns in the background, our self-catering holiday cottages are the perfect place in which to escape the pressures of modern life. Our position near Cragside, Rothbury, Alnwick and Hadrian's Wall, along with the likes of Bamburgh, Berwick, Craster, Holy Island and Seahouses on Northumberland's Heritage Coast, cannot be improved on for a family holiday in Northumberland.
Completed in 2009, our self-catering holiday cottages have been created from the careful conversion of a very grandly designed 19th century stone-built farm steading with a fascinating historical connection. Burnfoot, so named because of its location at the confluence of two tributaries of the River Coquet, was created by perhaps the greatest of Victorian inventor industrialists, Lord Armstrong, and was an integral part of his world-renowned Cragside Estate, now owned by the National Trust.
Burnfoot Holiday Cottages is a small family-owned business, and we pride ourselves on paying attention to the important details to make sure your stay is enjoyable and stress free. Whatever kind of holiday you are planning in Northumberland, you will find the perfect home from home at Burnfoot.
The conversion of all of our self catering holiday cottages at Burnfoot was completed in 2009. Every opening is double-glazed, with the best insulation lining every wall, every ceiling and every floor, so that you can enjoy these light airy spaces in the knowledge you'll be cosy at the same time.
All of our holiday cottages are beautifully appointed in Farrow & Ball paint colours, with solid oak doors in every cottage, most with antique Suffolk latch ironmongery. Every kitchen features either oak unit doors or worktops and almost every item of furniture is made from solid oak. To furnish the cottages with anything less would do the buildings a great injustice.
The architectural and historical integrity of the farm is fully retained - but don't expect to completely step back in time at Burnfoot. Inside every living room you will find a flat-screen television with in-built DVD player and a dock to plug in your I-Pod. Every kitchen has a stainless steel range cooker or built-in hob, oven and extractor, stainless steel twin bowl sinks with chrome monobloc taps, and every utensil an aspiring chef might require.
As for the bedrooms, every master bed has an extra-thick luxury mattress to help you enjoy the best night's sleep you've ever had. Not that you'll need much help relaxing in the silent, star-studded serenity of the scientifically-proven most tranquil county in England!
All bed linen, towels, heating, electricity and logs are included in the rent. Travel cots, stair gates and high chairs are available free of charge; just let us know what you require in advance.
All of our guests are welcome to make use of our tennis court. Children can play safely in the grounds to the north of the farm steading, where a large lawned area has been set aside for running and playing! There is ample on-site parking.
We aim to be pet friendly and welcome well-behaved dogs in Cheviot View, The Granary, East Lodge and The Hemmel.
Nestled between the Cheviot Hills and the River Coquet, Burnfoot is a quarter of a mile from the village of Netherton and six miles north-west of Rothbury. Alnmouth, Alnwick, Amble, Bamburgh, Cragside, Craster, Farne Islands, Hadrian's Wall, Holy Island (Lindisfarne), Morpeth, Seahouses, Warkworth, Wooler and the Scottish Borders are all within a short drive.
The cottages are located on the edge of the Northumberland National Park within a nationally important Area of High Landscape Value. They are set on the banks of Wreigh Burn in a protected Site of Special Scientific Interest.
Netherton village is just a short walk from the cottages (approximately ¼ mile). The village boasts The Star Inn, an unspoilt gem of a pub. Privately owned and unchanged in 80 years, it is one of only ten in England and Wales to have appeared in every single one of CAMRA's Good Beer Guide since it was first published in 1974 - it is certainly an experience!
Rothbury, only a ten-minute drive away, benefits from a supermarket, bakeries, restaurants, and tearooms, as well as a wealth of antique and craft shops and art galleries. The award-winning delicatessen and independent grocer, Tully's of Rothbury, can deliver food and beverages, including organic ready-to-eat meals, direct to all the holiday cottages at Burnfoot. Rothbury also has comprehensive healthcare facilities in case of emergency. There is a small petrol station in Thropton, en route to Rothbury.
Burnfoot was a working farm until very recently, the steading being used for grain drying and storage as well as housing livestock. However, the buildings were not large enough to cope with modern farming methods and so in 2005 all farming activity ceased. Many of the surrounding fields were planted with trees and permission was granted to convert the steading for residential use. Today, with Netherton's close proximity to Northumberland National Park, tourism is becoming the prominent industry with visitor numbers increasing every year.
There are several strange, and as yet still unexplained, 'cup and ring' carved stones visible on the walks surrounding the holiday cottages that suggest very early settlement of this part of the Kingdom of Northumbria. The discovery of stone axes as well as burial mounds at nearby Low Trewhitt has certainly proven settlement here from at least the Neolithic and Bronze Ages. Beyond that, evidence suggests that more people lived around Burnfoot in medieval times than in the present day. The adjacent village of Netherton is identified in the Domesday Book as one of the ten towns of Coquetdale, meaning there were more houses in the village then than there are now. Perhaps residents fled from the battleground of the constant warfare between England and Scotland – not all were fortunate enough to be able to build fortified tower and bastle houses, of which many survive to this day in the immediate vicinity.
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Northumberland self catering holiday cottages