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If you would like accommodation during the courses, here is a list of B&Bs that are within a reasonable distance of Assington. Please make separate arrangements with the owners of the establishments listed below.

ASSINGTON MILL

We have one double bedroom and one twin-bedded room available in the house for B&B. £30 per person per night. This is our family home so we regret we are unable to accept dogs or smokers.

Please note that there are no ATMs within 6 miles, but the farm shop in the village will do cashback if you spend a certain amount. We get all our food for the courses there; no need to go anywhere else. PETROL available at Boxford (3 miles) or at Colchester (10m) or Sudbury (6).

MILL COTTAGE: the cottage is part of the former mill building, overlooking the large millpond, and has been converted and is available for hire from May 2008. It sleeps two. Fishing available (trout, rudd, roach, bream). Well-behaved dogs welcome, but not smokers! This is a fabulous place to spend some time if you want real peace! See pictures online at www.grove-cottages.co.uk.

To book, contact Mark Scott on 01787 211115, email: mark@grove-cottages.co.uk, or www.cottage-agency.co.uk

CAMPING is also possible at Assington Mill. Toilet and shower available in a wetroom; kitchen with two hobs and urn also available. £5 per night. We are not a proper camp site; this is just a facility for people coming on the courses. You can camp anywhere you like on the farm.

Assington

Assington Mill - Mill Cottage

We have a cottage in the farmyard complex, overlooking the millpond, which has a double bedroom and sitting room upstairs, and a kitchen/hall and wetroom downstairs.  The boiler room can also be used as a drying room.  The building used to be part of the mill, maybe the office, and was converted in 2008.  It is heated by a ground source heat pump, which takes heat from the earth, and has a woodburning stove for extra cosiness.  There is a private garden between the cottage and the millpond, surrounded on the other two sides by a shrub-rose bed on one side and a willow ba

The English Garden

Justine Ferrari
The English Garden, Assington, CO10 5
Tel: 01787 211364
ferrarifrs@aol.com
£35 single B&B; £60 double.

Enjoy a warm welcome in this beautifully appointed Georgian former coach house. Warm and inviting in winter; tranquil and glorious in summer with its award-winning garden, and within walking distance of Assington Mill, it is the perfect location for all year round visits.

Gedding Hall (0.5 miles)

Jane Moore
Gedding Hall
Tel: 01206 263209
Email: vjmoore@onetel.com

Suffolk

Suffolk Character Cottages

5-star luxury holiday homes:  second home places where people come for the weekend to relax in style and or do something special/different.

Contact Donna Bell

E:  suffolkcharactercottages@gmail.com

T:  07825 155277

W:  http://www.suffolkcharactercottages.co.uk

Stanstead

Coppins House, Blooms Hall Lane

Coppins House is just outside the small hamlet of Stanstead, set in open Suffolk farmland, with only the noise of skylarks and deer to disturb you.  It is between the historic villages of Long Melford and Lavenham, and not far from the market towns of Sudbury and Bury St Edmunds. 

Coppins House has one luxury double bedroom for guests, with en suite bathroom.  The bedroom has panoramic views across to Lavenham.  Breakfast is served in a sunny dining room, with eggs from Claire's hens and honey from her bees.

Nayland

Hill House (4 miles)

Mrs P Heigham
Hill House, Gravel Hill, Nayland, CO6 4JB
Tel: 01206 262782
Email: heighamhillhouse@hotmail.com
www.heighamhillhouse.co.uk
£35 single, £68 double

A classic medieval hall house, beautifully presented and complete with period furniture, in a very pretty village. There are excellent pubs to eat in here and in nearby Stoke by Nayland.

The Steam Mill House (4 miles)

1 Fen Street, Nayland, CO6 4HT
T: 01206 262818
E: brendaassing@tiscali.co.uk
W. www.thesteammillhouse.com
£35 single (special price for Assington Mill clients), £60 double or twin

Elegant listed building in the centre of the lovely village of Nayland, in Constable country. 4-star B&B with very friendly host.

Gladwins Farm (4 miles)

Robert & Pauline Dossor
Gladwins Farm, Harper's Hill, Nayland CO6 4NU
01206 262261
Email: GladwinsFarm@aol.com
Web: www.gladwinsfarm.co.uk
Single £45 B&B, Double £65/70.

4-star holiday cottages, plus some B&B rooms in a 1950s house built on the site of an old farmhouse, on a hillside overlooking the Stour Valley. Ensuite bathrooms, TV & tea-making facilities. Pool, sauna and hot tub, tennis court and croquet lawn, coarse fishing.

Stoke By Nayland (3 miles)

Angel Inn

Angel Inn (foodie pub)
Tel: 01206 263245
Web: www.angelhotel.com
Email: the.angel@tiscali.com
Accommodation from £75

Warm and cosy 16th century pub in the middle of an historic village. Open fire in the bar with excellent food..

Stoke by Nayland Hotel

Stoke by Nayland Hotel
Leavenheath
T: 01206 265835
E: hotelbookings@stokebynayland.com
W: www.stokebynaylandclub.co.uk

Single £65, Double £75 B&B (special rate - please mention Assington Mill)
Large modern hotel voted UK Sports Club of the Year 2006 in the Greene King Free Trade Excellence Awards. It is set in a golf course with an indoor swimming pool, poolside facilities, Technogym gym, health and beauty treatments, squash courts, golf tuition, covered driving range and coarse fishing.

The Crown
The Crown is our favourite gastro pub nearby. A medieval building, it has a beautiful position overlooking the Box valley, in a stunning village.
Accommodation is in a new wing.
Please contact them for details of their current promotions, including:
Weekend Breaks- 2 nights B&B for 2 plus Dinner on one night from £270 per
room
Mid-Week Breaks - 2 nights B&B for 2 plus Dinner on one night from £250 per
room
Sunday Nights - B&B for 2 with Dinner included from £125 per room

Great Horkeseley (10 mins by car)

Mount Hall

Mount Hall
CO6 4BZ
T: 01206 271359
E: mounthall@yahoo.co.uk
W: www.specialplacestostay.com
£35 single per night

A Queen Anne listed house set on the edge of the Dedham Vale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

Earls Colne

Riverside Lodge

Riverside Lodge
40 Lower Holt Street, Earls Colne, CO6 2PH
Tel: 01787 223487
£42 single, £48 double

Hadleigh (20 mins by car)

Edge Hall

Angela Rolfe
Edge Hall, 2 High Street, Hadleigh. IP7 5AP
Tel: 01473 822458
Email: r.rolfe@edgehall-hotel.co.uk
Web: www.edgehall-hotel.co.uk
£50+ single, £80+ double.

Georgian house at the end of Hadleigh High Street, which is full of interesting buildings and still has real shops. The rooms are beautifully decorated with appropriate wallpapers and furniture, and all usual facilities.

Polstead (15 mins by car)

Polstead Lodge

Mrs M Howard
Polstead Lodge, Mill Street, Polstead, CO6 5AD
Tel: 01206 262196
Email: howards@polsteadlodge.freeserve.co.uk
Web: www.polsteadlodge.com

Modern chalet-bungalow in a rural setting with large well-decorated rooms and all the usual facilities. Polstead is a beautiful Suffolk village, with a good pub, once the home of Maria Marten..

Sudbury (6 miles)

Pickwick House

Pat Taylor, Ashen Lane,  Stoke-by-Clare, Sudbury, CO10 8JA, tel:  01787 278707, Mobile:  07976 553482, Email:  ashenl@tiscali.co.uk.  Single:  £35, double £60.  Evening meals can be ordered in advance.

St Davids Hall

Christine Eves
St Davids Hall, 40a Friars Street, Sudbury, CO10 2AG
Tel: 01787 373044
Mobile: 07960 785653
£35 single, £54 double.

Hotel Elizabeth

Hotel Elizabeth
0870 116 2721
elizabeth.mill@elizabethhotels.co.uk

Converted mill buildings overlooking the meadows of the Stour. Sudbury is an old-fashioned market town, not messed about in the 20th century, and was called Eatanswill by Charles Dickens, a reference to its corrupt politicians.