What do you think makes a stay at The Bell at Ramsbury unique?
The Bell uses the incredible produce grown and produced right on its doorstep. The Ramsbury Estate distillery, three miles away, supplies The Bell with its own multi-award winning single estate grain vodka and gin, both made using the Estate’s own single field Horatio baker’s wheat and chalk-filtered spring water from its source. Ramsbury Gin is flavoured with nine botanicals grown on the estate, including quince.
Attached to the distillery is the much-loved Ramsbury Brewery. The Bell offers all four of the Brewery’s handcrafted, grain-to-glass beers on tap, using barley also grown on the Ramsbury estate and own-source, chalk-filtered water, including its best-seller, Gold Ale.
The estate also supplies The Bell's kitchen with its own Black Gold extra virgin cold pressed rapeseed oil extracted from its own Oil Press, while the Estate's Priory Farm kitchen garden delivers freshly picked, seasonal fruit, veg, herbs and flowers to the pub daily, along with air dried aged beef from the Ramsbury estate’s herd of South Devon Pedigree and Aberdeen Angus cattle, water meadow lamb and seasonally available game from the estate’s sustainably managed woodland.
The pub has a large bar area with two wood-burning stoves, space to drink and dine, and a snug with an open fire at its centre. Two light and sunny dining rooms overlook the pretty village green and high street.
Adjacent to the pub’s dining rooms is the quaint Café Bella. Popular with locals, this Arts & Crafts-style space offers counter dining overlooking the open kitchen, which serves breakfast, light snacks, pizza, and homemade cakes. French doors lead from the cafe onto a decked terrace to one side of the pub, and another door leads to a sunny patio with steps up to a landscaped beer garden.
Tastefully decorated throughout with natural flair, expect simple, chic, country style to enhance the pub's original features, from exposed beams, Ingenook fireplace and solid oak floors to original leadlight windows.
Tell us more about the rooms and facilities at The Bell at Ramsbury?
The Bell’s ten comfortable, spacious guest rooms, all available on a B&B basis, include six above the pub and another four in a converted coach house opposite. All rooms are en-suite and feature luxurious Hypnos beds, hypo-allergenic duvets and pillows and crisp white linens. They are individually decorated in a simple pared-back style with a calming colour scheme enhanced with locally sourced antiques and original architectural features such as exposed oak beams and restored fireplaces.
Choose from four Super Kingside beds, two deluxe doubles, two standard doubles, and two twin bedrooms, with one interconnecting for families. Seven rooms feature walk-in rain showers, three have showers over the bath, and they all come with locally made Elm & Grey toiletries.
Breakfast includes a continental buffet of homemade granola, yogurt, fresh fruits, breads, jams and fresh pastries, and cooked breakfast options.
All rooms offer tea and coffee-making facilities, free Wi-Fi, fresh milk, and homemade biscuits. Children of all ages are very welcome, and camp beds cost £50 a night per child. Free travel cots are also available.
All rooms include:
Flat Screen TVs
Cotton linen and hypoallergenic duvets
Toiletries by Elm & Grey
Complimentary wireless access
Roberts radio
Nespresso coffee machines
Can you suggest any activities or things to do while staying in the Marlborough area?
The Ramsbury Estate Distillery and Brewery lie just three miles from The Bell, and offer regular tours, beer, gin and vodka tastings and a Bespoke Gin School Experience with a 3.5hr ‘Make Your Own Gin’ masterclass and also foraging workshops on the estate with Wiltshire wild picker, Marc Pardey. All bookable here, https://thebellramsbury.com
Great walks from the front door. Ask staff for a local map or explore Ramsbury's narrow, winding village lanes lined with beautifully preseved historic buildings or take a stroll along the bank of the river Kennett which edges the village. For a more demanding hike along the famous Ridgeway track, accessible from nearby Aldbourne. Alternatively, head to Littlecote Roman Villa with the best preserved Roman mosaic in the UK.
Other nearby attractions incldue White Horse Hill at Uffington, and sightseeing and shopping in nearby Marlborough, five miles away.
What food do you serve at The Bell at Ramsbury?
Multi-award-winning head chef James Graham is dedicated to championing the abundant, seasonally relevant and homegrown estate produce on his regularly changing à la carte, farm-to-fork menus with innovative twists and global influences, together with elevated pub classics at breakfast, lunch, dinner and afternoon tea. The kitchen makes everything for its menus in-house, including the charcuterie, and each course includes vegetarian dishes. There’s also a fabulous Sunday roast and children’s menu, and the kitchen also offers smaller portions for younger diners from the à la carte menu, if preferred.
The Bell's carefully curated regular wine list offers reasonably priced classics and more unusual wines from Austria, Hungary, and Lebanon, which are available by glass or bottle. A ‘Special Wine List’ also features a fabulous range of prestigious Old and New World wines.
Does the chef at The Bell at Ramsbury have a signature dish?
Due to the focus on seaonality and what's best on the day, there is no signature dish on The Bell's regularly changing menus.
Other Information
Dogs are welcome in the bar, Café Bella, in the garden and for overnight stays in the four coach house bedrooms at no extra charge. Teats and water bowls are available in the bar
Large crowds of eight or more are asked to pre-order from the menu a few days in advance to avoid disappointment. Café Bella can be hired as a private event and / or dining room and can comfortably accommodate up to 50 diners.
Covers - 106 inside and 80 in its landscaped garden and on the terrace.
