The Eco Weekender: The Pig at Bridge Place, Kent

The Pig at Bridge Playground is a Grade II-listed English heritage mansion with 10-acre farmlands within the Nailbourne Valley, a Potting Drop spa and the cutest patio within the kitchen farmland the place the most productive imaginable flatbreads are baked within the pizza oven. With 31 in my view styled rooms and stand-alone suites and huts, it’s brittle to consider this lovely, nation space retreat segued from Jacobean manor to nightclub. These days, the one noise more likely to wake you is the birdsong or babbling current. Robin’s spouse, Judy, has excelled at conjuring a characterful search for the primary space suites, which really feel a step up from their signature rustic-upcycled shtick. The principle lodge has the unedited options (together with a ghost, hearsay has it, if that’s your kink), uncovered beams, antique furniture and eclectic decor. If you need unusual, journey for the Steam Wagons Hop Pickers Huts, which can be an upmarket homage to the truth that up till the Fifties, tens of 1000’s of migrant employees worn to flock to the boxes of Kent to pick out hop vegetation for the beer trade.