The Best Things to Do Near Buckland Manor, by the Record
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The ozone sauna pods and Reformer Pilates studio inside a glass-enclosed antique barn are a long way from the average hotel steam room. The spa at Soho Farmhouse sits in verdant Oxfordshire countryside, and the whole setup leans into that, pairing proper wellness treatments with the kind of setting that does half the work on its own. Named among Vogue's 100 Best Spas in the World, it draws the sort of Londoners who genuinely needed to leave London.
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Tucked into a 150-acre Cotswolds estate that also runs a farm, a pub, and its own homewares line, Meadow Spa at Thyme is the kind of spa where the surroundings do half the work before you've even booked a treatment. Sweeping meadows and converted stone outbuildings set a tone that no amount of ambient music could manufacture. Named on Vogue's 100 Best Spas in the World list, it draws the weary-Londoner crowd who've done their research and booked well in advance.
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Marble hauled in serious quantities, Doric columns, and a subterranean Roman-bath layout that sits under Cotswolds woodland as though it was always there. The Eynsham Baths at Estelle Manor is a spa on the grander end of grand, 3,000 square metres of neoclassical excess where the brief seems to have been "ancient Rome, but quieter." Vogue placed it among its 100 Best Spas in the World, which tracks.
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The spa sits inside a grand Wiltshire country house hotel, surrounded by 500 acres of rolling English countryside a short drive from Bath. It's the kind of place where the pace drops the moment you walk in, warm and unfussy despite the very obvious grandeur around it. Vogue put it on their list of the world's 100 best spas, and the setting does most of the heavy lifting before a treatment even begins.