Hotels in Longstock

Hotel options directly in Longstock are limited to one standout: The Peat Spade Inn, a restored country pub with nine en-suite rooms in the heart of the village, popular with walkers and anglers drawn by the River Test on its doorstep. Its rooms come with Egyptian cotton sheets, Smart TVs and Nespresso machines, and its bar and dining room double as the village's main social hub.

For more choice, Stockbridge is under a mile away and has a longer High Street lined with inns, pubs with rooms and small hotels, many of them geared towards the fly-fishing trade that has made the town famous. Winchester, around 9 miles east, offers a much wider range of hotels, from boutique townhouses to larger chain options, along with excellent rail links to London. Andover, roughly the same distance in the other direction, provides a practical, budget-friendly base with easy access to the A303 and A34.

Wherever you stay, Longstock's appeal is as a base for slow days beside the water: a night at the Peat Spade puts you within walking distance of the water garden, the Test Way footpath and Stockbridge's fishing shops, while staying in Stockbridge or Winchester trades a little of that immediacy for more choice of places to eat, drink and sleep.