When browsing blogs, I sometimes get confused with place names as so many are taken from towns and villages here in the UK. For example just before I went on holiday, I saw a post entitled "Return to Daylesford" and immediately clicked on it. It wasn't "my" Daylesford but one in Australia - very confusing! However it gave me the idea to share with you one of the places I enjoy visiting.
My Daylesford is a most fabulous organic farm shop in the Cotswolds. It is very expensive, as all the great and the good with weekend homes in that up-market area of the North Cotswolds, shop there. I'm talking about Kate Moss, Hugh Grant, Liz Hurley etc. I go just to have a cup of coffee and look!
It is the brain child of Lady Bamford whose husband's company is JCB. Apparently she was inspired by the Duchess of Devonshire's farm shop at Chatsworth and decided to open one herself. However, when I visited her inspiration last week I thought it very different. It is a much more practical and work-a-day set up and I could actually imagine myself using is regularly if I lived near, Daylesford is a much more decorative establishment -
This is the original - Daylesford House, where Sir Anthony and Lady Bamford now live.
It was a medieval manor house but was remodelled in 1788 for Warren Hastings, who had been the Governor General of India. It has had other well known and wealthy owners since. Viscount Rothermere, the newspaper magnate, restored the house with the help of the interior decorator John Fowler, and Baron Heinrich Thyssen also lived there for many years.
I would love to have a peep inside but it's not open to the public, so have to content myself with visiting the Farm shop, which is uber stylish!
http://www.daylesfordorganic.com/engine/shop/page/our+shops
My Daylesford is a most fabulous organic farm shop in the Cotswolds. It is very expensive, as all the great and the good with weekend homes in that up-market area of the North Cotswolds, shop there. I'm talking about Kate Moss, Hugh Grant, Liz Hurley etc. I go just to have a cup of coffee and look!
It is the brain child of Lady Bamford whose husband's company is JCB. Apparently she was inspired by the Duchess of Devonshire's farm shop at Chatsworth and decided to open one herself. However, when I visited her inspiration last week I thought it very different. It is a much more practical and work-a-day set up and I could actually imagine myself using is regularly if I lived near, Daylesford is a much more decorative establishment -
This is the original - Daylesford House, where Sir Anthony and Lady Bamford now live.
It was a medieval manor house but was remodelled in 1788 for Warren Hastings, who had been the Governor General of India. It has had other well known and wealthy owners since. Viscount Rothermere, the newspaper magnate, restored the house with the help of the interior decorator John Fowler, and Baron Heinrich Thyssen also lived there for many years.
I would love to have a peep inside but it's not open to the public, so have to content myself with visiting the Farm shop, which is uber stylish!
http://www.daylesfordorganic.com/engine/shop/page/our+shops
