Say “the Cotswolds” to any seasoned traveler, and a imaginative and prescient of traditional British countryside dwelling rapidly springs to thoughts. Cobbled streets lined with rambling chocolate field cottages, with limestone facades lined in vines and spring blossoms? Verify. Sweeping meadows dotted with cows and trimmed with wildflowers, soundtracked by a refrain of morning sparrows? Verify. Stately houses and gardens to wander by way of on a lazy afternoon, adopted by a go to to a comfy pub to take pleasure in a pint by the fireplace? Verify.
But what lends the Cotswolds its distinctive magic isn’t simply its magnificence, however the coronary heart and soul—and group—that retains this magnificence alive. (These villages might appear like picture-postcard idylls, but it surely takes plenty of maintenance to make sure they keep that manner, and to keep away from them turning into a form of Jane Austen Disneyland.) It’s a proven fact that Caryn Hibbert, the founding father of Thyme—a sprawling property throughout the village of Southrop that’s nominally a resort, however feels extra like its personal, self-contained hamlet—is aware of all too properly. Having first moved to the realm from London in 2002 with the intention of opening a cookery college, Hibbert has slowly—and, sure, organically—developed Thyme right into a 150-acre paradise that now encompasses a farm, restaurant, pub, spa, and 31 rooms unfold throughout the assorted barns, manor homes, and outbuildings that make up the property.
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