Hotels in Barrow Upon Trent

Barrow upon Trent has no hotels of its own, being a small residential village, so visitors looking for hotel-style accommodation will typically base themselves in nearby Derby or in the villages and small towns scattered across South Derbyshire, such as Melbourne. Derby offers the widest choice, from budget chain hotels near the station and ring road to a handful of boutique and coaching-inn style options in the city centre, all within a fifteen-minute drive of Barrow upon Trent. This makes it easy to combine city comforts, shops and restaurants with quiet days out along the Trent Valley.

For something with more character, the surrounding countryside has a number of traditional coaching inns and pubs with rooms, several dating back a few hundred years, offering a more local feel than a city-centre hotel. The Crewe & Harpur, a 17th-century former coach house between Swarkestone and Melbourne, is typical of the kind of historic pub accommodation found in this part of Derbyshire. Staying in one of these puts you within easy reach of Swarkestone Bridge, Elvaston Castle Country Park, Melbourne's Georgian streets and the Anchor Church caves near Ingleby, without needing to travel into Derby itself.

Whichever base you choose, the compact geography of this stretch of the Trent Valley means nowhere is very far from anywhere else. A hotel in Derby, Melbourne or one of the riverside villages all put you within a short drive of Barrow upon Trent and the quiet lanes, water meadows and historic churches that make up its immediate surroundings, as well as the northern fringe of the National Forest a little further south.