Wiltshire, United Kingdom

The Bradley Hare

Price per night from$158.77

Price information

If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (inclusive of taxes and fees) available in the next 60 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (GBP120.00), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

Hares and graces

Setting

Bucolic Wiltshire borders

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Frothy ales, fireside snugs and contenting, rustic fare — pub with rooms The Bradley Hare ticks off all these quintessential country inn favourites, and pairs them with pints of pub-elevating panache. Set on the Wiltshire-Somerset borders, the pub’s cuisine spotlights the best of the region’s ample larder, alongside a well-stocked bar. And comely rooms, individually dressed in antique furnishings, rich pattern and nature’s palette, are just a waddle away. Bucolic bliss indeed. 

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

12 (seven in the main pub and five in the Coach House opposite).

Check–Out

11am, and check-in is at 4pm. Both are flexible, subject to availability; you’ll need to message ahead if you're planning to arrive after midnight.

More details

Rates include a cooked breakfast and Continental buffet.

Also

On the ground floor of the Coach House, one Small Room and two Large Rooms at The Bradley Hare may meet your mobility needs. Wheelchair access to the pub is via a ramp that can be fitted to its front door and there’s an accessible public bathroom.

At the hotel

Garden, library, lounge spaces and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: smart TV, radio, coffee- and tea-making kit, minibar stocked with Somerset snacks, and local botanical bath products.

Our favourite rooms

Rooms set in the main pub at The Bradley Hare have more of the charm and whimsy you’d expect from a historic hostelry, while decor in the Coach House rooms leans slightly more contemporary. If we’re pressed to choose where we’d lay our head, No 3 — a Small Room in the main building — comes to mind for its snug-as-can-be cabin bed, fitted with curtains that make a post-lunch siesta even more appealing.

Packing tips

An appetite: you’ll want to keep returning to the menu during your stay to try that thing you missed earlier.

Also

Although not part of the pub, Milly Moo’s fresh-milk-dispensing hut just outside is a loveable local foible, most notably for its milkshake-maker with a range of flavoured syrups.

Pet‐friendly

Pups are welcome at The Bradley Hare, with a choice of three dog-friendly rooms on the ground floor of the Coach House and a one-off fee of £15 a stay. Your dog can accompany you in the pub, too. See more pet-friendly hotels in Wiltshire.

Children

The Bradley Hare welcomes little Smiths, with some of the larger rooms taking an extra futon bed for a nightly £30 fee (including breakfast). Baby cots are available, charged at £10 a stay.

Sustainability efforts

The Bradley Hare relies on lots of small, simple steps to make a difference, from vegan bathroom products to a focus on seasonal, locally sourced food. The team tends a nearby community garden, is cutting back on single-use plastics, and staff are mindful of energy use, striving to conserve power whenever possible. Recycling and composting also keep waste to a minimum, plus there’s a kitchen garden in the works.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

Stay toasty by the fire for cosy winter dinners in the Map Room, then relocate to the library for a snug digestif. Come summer, head outside for a table in the sunny garden.

Dress Code

Resist the Barbour and Burberry, you don’t have to look like a local to feel welcome here.

Hotel restaurant

Loosen your belt buckle, dining at The Bradley Hare isn’t a time to hold back. The menu dives headlong into the region’s generous bounty, with the likes of Poole Bay clams with smoked Wiltshire bacon and venison terrine on fruit toast, just for starters. Rump steak is sourced from fourth-generation local butchers, buttered sole caught off the Cornish coast, and crispy roasted parsnips pulled from the soil of surrounding farms. Traditional pub grub (steaming fish pies, juicy burgers, et al) sits alongside more elevated fare, plus all-the-trimmings-and-some Sunday lunches that’ll have you contemplating a lie-down afterwards.  

Hotel bar

First catching your eye is the owner’s collection of cut-glass decanters, twinkling from the sunlight beaming through a grand sash window. The drinks selection is no less sparkling, featuring an impressive range of super-local brews (including the Hare’s own ale), a longer-than-your-arm wine list, and all-the-classics cocktails. A twin-sided fireplace set in the wall between the bar and the library affords a choice of toasty spots for sips and nibbles such as haggis toast from the top-notch snack menu. 

Last orders

Breakfast is 8am–10am; lunch is noon–3pm (4pm on Sundays); dinner is 6pm–9pm (9.30pm on Sundays), and the bar pours until 11pm all week.

Location

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Address
The Bradley Hare
Church Street Maiden Bradley
Warminster
BA12 7HW
United Kingdom

The Bradley Hare sits in Maiden Bradley, a quaint village tucked into the southwestern corner of Wiltshire.

Planes

Bristol Airport is the closest at just an hour’s drive away, where flights arrive direct from major cities throughout Europe. For those flying in from further afield, London Heathrow is just under a two-hour drive away.

Trains

The stations of Bruton, Frome and Warminster are all within a 20-minute drive. Frome offers the most direct route from London, with connections from Paddington taking around two hours.

Automobiles

Even the most ardent ramblers would benefit from their own set of wheels to explore the Wiltshire wilds beyond the surrounding patchwork of green. Plus, there’s free parking at the back of the pub.

Worth getting out of bed for

The Bradley Hare is set on the Duchy of Somerset’s estate, surrounded by west Wiltshire landscapes that more than earn their Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty status. Cranborne Chase and the West Wiltshire Downs roll out in a patchwork of grassland, woodland and hills, scattered with ancient curiosities – from chalk horses to burial barrows and stone circles. Stonehenge is just 30 minutes away. For a chance of spotting crop circles (or simply admiring the chalk horse), head up Westbury Hill. 

Closer to The Bradley Hare, there’s classic English country life to dip into: stroll the landscaped gardens and temples at Stourhead, walk out to King Alfred’s Tower, or pass Bradley Hall, still home to the Duke of Somerset.  

North of the hotel, Longleat Safari Park pairs a grand manor house with lions and giraffes, while elegant Bath is an easy drive for Georgian streets, Roman baths and quaint tea rooms. 

Local restaurants

Fertile farmland, game-roamed estates and untapped avenues for foragers give these counties a gastronomic edge. In nearby Bruton, Smith-approved Osip has wildflowers hanging from the walls of its bijou dining room and starred plates from Merlin Labron-Johnson. Set within Hauser & Wirth in Bruton, Da Costa conjures the warmth of an Italian trattoria, with North Italian pasta and risotti and wood-fired mains served to candle-lit tables. And, you’re deep in cider country, so wade in with a visit to Smith stablemate The Newt, which has its very own cidery, plus extensive kitchen gardens, orchards and a resident forager.  

Local bars

Late-night revelry isn’t so much a thing around these parts, but boozers creaking with character are rarely far away. When in Frome, The Three Swans plates a precariously towering roast dinner, peddles halcyon pork pies and Scotch eggs, and is furnished eccentrically. When thirst calls in Bruton, Roth Bar at the Hauser & Wirth gallery is an arty mash-up of farmhouse chic, creative cocktails and live jazz sessions.   

Reviews

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Anonymous review

By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this cosy pub with rooms on the Duchy of Somerset’s sprawling estate and unpacked their lardy cake and English sparkling, a full account of their bucolic break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside The Bradley Hare in Wiltshire… 

With associations of crackling logs, the jovial chatter of regulars, hearty food and free-flowing drinks, a pub with rooms done well is a thing of joy. Best of all, at the end of the evening, is the pleasure of setting down your empty glass and shuffling sleepily to your room just steps away.  

The Bradley Hare ticks all these boxes. This boutique stay’s 19th-century red-and-grey-brick exterior, fire-cheered dining and drinking spaces, and cosily appointed bedchambers, set either above the pub or in a neighbouring Coach House, further bolster its charms.  

Its menus showcase the South West’s bounty, with meat, fish, cheese and produce sourced from impeccable local suppliers. Place it all in one of Wiltshire’s official Areas of Outstanding Beauty, and it's also the ideal spot for pre-prandial country ambles before you happily hop back inside for the next round of rural repast.  

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