We are delighted to have been featured in The Telegraph once again, with such a wonderful review as one of The most romantic hotels in the Cotswolds.

Cotswold pub, The Swan at Southrop, has a brand-new look having reopened after a significant refurbishment. 

Charlie and Milly Hibbert, the brother and sister team behind sister venue Thyme, have given the popular Cotswold pub a new lease of life, with a glamorous interior and a new menu.

‘There’s a sense of timelessness as you journey to Gloucestershire’s Thyme country house hotel and its accompanying 150-acre estate’.

An interview with the artist reveals an insight into the contrasting styles and divergent origins of these botanical collages.

We are delighted to have been featured in The Telegraph, with such a wonderful, glowing review as one of the UK’s leading hotels.

“Thyme is the ultimate soul-soothing weekend escape”.

Conde Nast Traveller: Review on our Botanical Bothy at Thyme.

‘Proof that one treatment, one pair of hands and the chance to breath deeply can rewrite the script’

Dutch magazine Sabato - Features Thyme in it’s round up of the Best Country House Hotels in the UK.

‘All as postcard pretty as the environment’

‘A countryside oasis, the spa specialises in treatments that use its own botanical-inspired Bertioli products combined with meditation and breathing to achieve a true sense of calm influenced by nature and Thyme's heavenly surroundings’.

Our Bertioli Breathing Balm, included in The London Magazine’s live well round up.

The Sunday Times Best Hotel Spa: ‘Meadow Spa is a boutique spa, it doesn’t have all the facilities that tick the boxes of traditional spa hotels, but the experience is truly unique and wonderful’.

The launch of our Botanical Breathing Bothy this year has set the offering in Meadow Spa apart.

Tatler Magazine - The Great British Retreats

“Folded into quaint little Southrop, The Thyme estate is owned and inhabited by the Hibbert family who have, since 2002, quietly developed thier own ‘alternative village’ in this charming corner of the Cotswolds.”

-Tatler November Issue 2022

CREA Magazine - Japan

Country Life: Cotswold Water Meadows

‘You realise how important areas such as this are to conservation and begin to understand how connected every- thing is. We’re not an isolated little spot here, of orchids (marsh, common spotted, pyrami- dal, twayblade and bee orchids), and then meadowsweet, vetch, vetchling, plantain...we’re part of something much bigger.’

-Caryn Hibbert Country Life September Issue 2022

“In the last of our series on the kitchen garden at Thyme in Southrop, head gardener Victoria Bowsher harvests and stores winter squash and considers hardy brassicas and green manures”

Words by Vivienne Hambly, photographs by Sussie Bell