Hotels in Stretton

Stretton has no large hotels of its own, being a small Rutland village, so most visitors treat it as a quiet base and look to nearby Oakham, the villages around Rutland Water, or historic Stamford for a wider choice of places to stay. Oakham, Rutland's county town, has a handful of traditional coaching inns and small hotels within a few minutes' drive, useful for anyone wanting shops and a railway station close by. Around Rutland Water itself, several villages have country pubs offering rooms, along with farmhouse bed and breakfasts set among working farmland, well suited to walkers and cyclists using the reservoir's circular trail.

For something with more choice, Stamford, just over the Lincolnshire border, is a well-preserved Georgian stone town with a good selection of townhouse hotels and coaching inns, many in listed buildings, plus independent restaurants and shops within walking distance. It also has a mainline railway station. Self-catering cottages are common throughout the villages surrounding Stretton, ranging from simple stone cottages to larger farmhouses, and tend to suit families or groups visiting for walking, cycling or exploring Rutland Water over several days. Whichever base is chosen, distances are short: Stretton, Oakham, Rutland Water and Stamford are all within about a fifteen-minute drive of one another, so accommodation choice can be driven by budget and style rather than location.