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Scottish Sun
02-07-2025
- Scottish Sun
I stayed at the UK hotel with the country's first swim-up bar
The Manor House is a contemporary luxury escape to the countryside for those tired of everyday urban life SPA SECRETS I stayed at the UK hotel with the country's first swim-up bar Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) WITH its beautifully bright and modern interiors and use of local produce, The Manor House makes for a trendy yet relaxing weekend break. Here's everything you need to know about the hotel, from how much rooms cost to what to eat at the restaurant. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 7 This hotel has a standout spa Credit: Manor House Hotel & Spa, Alsager. 7 I lost count of all the chill-out zones across the hotel Credit: Manor House Hotel & Spa, Alsager. Where is the hotel? The Manor House is tucked into East Cheshire's tranquil countryside in Alsager, a quiet market town. It's about an hour's drive from Manchester and Birmingham. Crewe railway station, the nearest train station, is a 17-minute drive away. What is the hotel like? The hotel is charming countryside property in the heart of east Cheshire with a fantastic indoor and outdoor spa, set in a stunning country garden. It features an award-winning spa, cosy bar, and a restaurant serving excellent and healthy food. What are the rooms like? There are 50 rooms in total - I stayed in a Manor House King, which was very spacious with a large bathroom, a desk, an espresso machine, plus robes and slippers. Each room has a similar spacious and elegant feel, with traditional furnishing and bright interiors. Luxurious bed options include the Manor House King, the Manor House Twin and the Four Poster. Rooms start from £97.01 per night. Spa days start from £120pp, with overnight spa breaks starting from £255 per room. For more information, click here. What is there to eat or drink there? No need to head out for a meal - The Manor house has something for everyone at its AA Rosette restaurant. At dinner, I had English beef filet, which they suggested pairing with La Barbe Merlot - it was a match made in heaven. Inside the English spa hidden in the countryside with a serene private outdoor pool away from everyone 7 Outdoor spaces are decorated with greenery and plenty of daybeds Credit: Manor House Hotel & Spa, Alsager. 7 The bedrooms are the perfect balance of stylish and comfy Credit: Manor House Hotel & Spa, Alsager. 7 The cocktails were divine Credit: Manor House Hotel & Spa, Alsager. My partner had roast pork, which looked beautiful and full of flavour. The hotel serves breakfast and dinner in its Stables restaurant with a small, high-quality menu. Fry-ups are generous while other options include Scotch pancakes, avocado and salmon and French toast. What else is there to do at the hotel? The spa as the main attraction here, with its outdoor relaxation rooms, steam room and an amazing metal plunge bath as well as the UK's first swim up bar. I loved popping in and out of the herbal saunas, salt steam chamber and into the tin plunge bath, ending in the Greenhouse relaxation lounge to read my book. Top-notch therapists are also ready to carry out treatments. And if you're up for adventure, there's plenty to discover in the surrounding neighbourhoods of Staffordshire and Cheshire. There's also easy access to the Peak District National Park, just a 30 minute drive away from The Manor House. Immerse yourself in some pottery with Emma Bridgewater or Burleigh pottery, or treat yourself to some classic retail therapy at the nearby Trentham shopping village. Is the hotel family friendly? Yes, the hotel offers select rooms for families, with specific rooms available to accommodate those with children ages 12 and under. Is there access for guests with disabilities? Yes, the Manor House are committed to providing inclusive services. Looking for a place to stay? For more hotel inspiration click here. 7 The decor is relaxing and homely with a modern twist Credit: Manor House Hotel & Spa, Alsager.
The Sun
02-07-2025
- The Sun
I stayed at the UK hotel with the country's first swim-up bar
WITH its beautifully bright and modern interiors and use of local produce, The Manor House makes for a trendy yet relaxing weekend break. Here's everything you need to know about the hotel, from how much rooms cost to what to eat at the restaurant. 7 7 Where is the hotel? The Manor House is tucked into East Cheshire's tranquil countryside in Alsager, a quiet market town. It's about an hour's drive from Manchester and Birmingham. Crewe railway station, the nearest train station, is a 17-minute drive away. What is the hotel like? The hotel is charming countryside property in the heart of east Cheshire with a fantastic indoor and outdoor spa, set in a stunning country garden. It features an award-winning spa, cosy bar, and a restaurant serving excellent and healthy food. What are the rooms like? There are 50 rooms in total - I stayed in a Manor House King, which was very spacious with a large bathroom, a desk, an espresso machine, plus robes and slippers. Each room has a similar spacious and elegant feel, with traditional furnishing and bright interiors. Luxurious bed options include the Manor House King, the Manor House Twin and the Four Poster. Rooms start from £97.01 per night. Spa days start from £120pp, with overnight spa breaks starting from £255 per room. For more information, click here. What is there to eat or drink there? No need to head out for a meal - The Manor house has something for everyone at its AA Rosette restaurant. At dinner, I had English beef filet, which they suggested pairing with La Barbe Merlot - it was a match made in heaven. Inside the English spa hidden in the countryside with a serene private outdoor pool away from everyone 7 7 7 My partner had roast pork, which looked beautiful and full of flavour. The hotel serves breakfast and dinner in its Stables restaurant with a small, high-quality menu. Fry-ups are generous while other options include Scotch pancakes, avocado and salmon and French toast. What else is there to do at the hotel? The spa as the main attraction here, with its outdoor relaxation rooms, steam room and an amazing metal plunge bath as well as the UK's first swim up bar. I loved popping in and out of the herbal saunas, salt steam chamber and into the tin plunge bath, ending in the Greenhouse relaxation lounge to read my book. Top-notch therapists are also ready to carry out treatments. And if you're up for adventure, there's plenty to discover in the surrounding neighbourhoods of Staffordshire and Cheshire. There's also easy access to the Peak District National Park, just a 30 minute drive away from The Manor House. Immerse yourself in some pottery with Emma Bridgewater or Burleigh pottery, or treat yourself to some classic retail therapy at the nearby Trentham shopping village. Is the hotel family friendly? Yes, the hotel offers select rooms for families, with specific rooms available to accommodate those with children ages 12 and under. Is there access for guests with disabilities? Yes, the Manor House are committed to providing inclusive services. Looking for a place to stay? For more hotel inspiration click here. 7 7
The Irish Sun
02-07-2025
- The Irish Sun
I stayed at the UK hotel with the country's first swim-up bar
WITH its beautifully bright and modern interiors and use of local produce, The Manor House makes for a trendy yet relaxing weekend break. Here's everything you need to know about the hotel, from how much rooms cost to what to eat at the restaurant. Advertisement 7 This hotel has a standout spa Credit: Manor House Hotel & Spa, Alsager. 7 I lost count of all the chill-out zones across the hotel Credit: Manor House Hotel & Spa, Alsager. Where is the hotel? The Manor House is tucked into East Cheshire's tranquil countryside in Alsager, a quiet market town. It's about an hour's drive from Manchester and Birmingham. Crewe railway station, the nearest train station, is a 17-minute drive away. What is the hotel like? The hotel is charming countryside property in the heart of east Cheshire with a fantastic indoor and outdoor spa, set in a stunning country garden. It features an award-winning spa, cosy bar, and a restaurant serving excellent and healthy food. Advertisement Read more on hotels What are the rooms like? There are 50 rooms in total - I stayed in a Manor House King, which was very spacious with a large bathroom, a desk, an espresso machine, plus robes and slippers. Each room has a similar spacious and elegant feel, with traditional furnishing and bright interiors. Luxurious bed options include the Manor House King, the Manor House Twin and the Four Poster. Rooms start from £97.01 per night. Spa days start from £120pp, with overnight spa breaks starting from £255 per room. For more information, Advertisement Most read in News Travel Exclusive What is there to eat or drink there? No need to head out for a meal - The Manor house has something for everyone at its AA Rosette restaurant. At dinner, I had English beef filet, which they suggested pairing with La Barbe Merlot - it was a match made in heaven. Inside the English spa hidden in the countryside with a serene private outdoor pool away from everyone 7 Outdoor spaces are decorated with greenery and plenty of daybeds Credit: Manor House Hotel & Spa, Alsager. 7 The bedrooms are the perfect balance of stylish and comfy Credit: Manor House Hotel & Spa, Alsager. Advertisement 7 The cocktails were divine Credit: Manor House Hotel & Spa, Alsager. My partner had roast pork, which looked beautiful and full of flavour. The hotel serves breakfast and dinner in its Stables restaurant with a small, high-quality menu. Fry-ups are generous while other options include Scotch pancakes, avocado and salmon and French toast. Advertisement What else is there to do at the hotel? The spa as the main attraction here, with its outdoor relaxation rooms, steam room and an amazing metal plunge bath I loved popping in and out of the herbal saunas, salt steam chamber and into the tin plunge bath, ending in the Greenhouse relaxation lounge to read my book. Top-notch therapists are also ready to carry out treatments. And if you're up for adventure, there's plenty to discover in the surrounding neighbourhoods of Staffordshire and Cheshire. There's also easy access to the Peak District National Park, just a 30 minute drive away from The Manor House. Advertisement Immerse yourself in some pottery with Emma Bridgewater or Burleigh pottery, or treat yourself to some classic retail therapy at the nearby Trentham shopping village. Is the hotel family friendly? Yes, the hotel offers select rooms for families, with specific rooms available to accommodate those with children ages 12 and under. Is there access for guests with disabilities? Yes, the Manor House are committed to providing inclusive services. Looking for a place to stay? For more hotel inspiration click here. Advertisement 7 The decor is relaxing and homely with a modern twist Credit: Manor House Hotel & Spa, Alsager. 7 The stunning outdoor pool is fantastic for a dip on a hot day Credit: Manor House Hotel & Spa, Alsager.
The Guardian
30-05-2025
- Lifestyle
- The Guardian
Ghost Wedding by David Park review – a thought-provoking novel about the power of the past
Time is layered in Northern Irish writer David Park's latest novel. The past ever present, it underpins but also threatens to undermine the two protagonists. The story opens in present-day Belfast, with Alex, a man caught up in wedding plans. He loves his Ellie, but doesn't love all the fuss over venues and seating arrangements. The pair are paying a visit to the Manor House, a grand hotel outside the city; Ellie has her heart set on the boathouse by the lake for their reception, and wants Alex to feel the same excitement. This first chapter finds him distracted, though. Impatient with deadlines and invitations, but also keen just to be married; more specifically, to let go of his old life and his old pals from his single days. We're not told why, only that he is tired of 'all the pretences and games' and that marriage represents his 'best opportunity to loosen the connection'. Chapter two returns us to the same place but a century earlier. The Manor House is home to the Remingtons, and the lake and boathouse of Ellie's future dreams are as yet under construction, under the supervision of George Allenby. A young architect, George is also a veteran of the first world war. The fighting is not long over and he, too, would rather put his past behind him. But the lake excavation and the daily sight of his workers in the mud and rain is proving an awful reminder of the trenches. There, he was an officer; here he is once again in charge of men. George is sorely aware of their toiling, and the precarity of their employment set against the wealth of the Remingtons. George's employers are new money, and he finds himself embarrassed at their ambitions to pass as landed gentry. He knows the lake he is constructing is part of this: a charade doomed to failure. Returning to Alex, we find he is also uncomfortable in his work. He's employed by his father in property development. Regeneration in 21st-century Belfast provides riches for some, Alex included, but he sees those left behind, not least the tenants in the shopfronts his father lets out. Among them is a barber and a tattoo artist; Alex pays them visits as landlord, but strives to be more than that, to make human connections. So Ghost Wedding is about class and power as well as the past. This finds its best expression in George's story, in the relationship that develops between him and Cora, one of the Manor House maids. What starts as an allyship against the housekeeper – and against the awful Remington Junior – soon becomes more than that, with Cora visiting George at the cottage in the grounds where he is billeted. She's a gift to him – and to the book. Her sharpness is beguiling, as are her appetites, her humour, her determined independence. Park is one of those rare and precious male writers – like Roddy Doyle, like Colum McCann, who have both championed his work – who write women well. Park describes George falling for Cora extremely well too. Will this love prove impossible? It's beautifully drawn and perfectly chosen for a novel that wants its characters – and readers – to see beyond boundaries. Above all, Park wants us to look beyond the now: beyond 'the calendar on the kitchen wall that pretends to control the space of days wherein we live'. Alex and Ellie are to marry by the lake that George is excavating while he falls in love with Cora; these couples are separated by a century, and by nothing at all: prey to the same dilemmas, hemmed in by the same structures. The past isn't past. When Alex visits his father's building projects, lying empty and derelict, he finds a kind of peace there; but Park fills the rooms for his readers, bringing us the spirits and stories of Titanic dockyard workers, and seamen who crewed the supply boats in wartime. Conflict and shipbuilding are the twin forces that have shaped Belfast and the lives of its people, and Park excels at making this tangible. Alex himself is less finely drawn. We know there's a darkness in his past; that something unspeakable took place, in a tent, at a festival. We learn there was a young woman – too drunk, too high, and left too vulnerable. But what part did Alex play there? And what of his old friends he wants to discard? They and his memories are rather too thinly dispersed through the book to provide drive. It's a hinterland left underexplored, and one that feels less integrated with the novel as a whole. But in George and Cora, and in the Belfast ghosts, there is more than enough to move us – and to prompt thought. 'Time shuffles itself lightly, like a pack of cards. Who can tell what sequence it will deal? Who can tell what will fall across our future days?' Sign up to Inside Saturday The only way to get a look behind the scenes of the Saturday magazine. Sign up to get the inside story from our top writers as well as all the must-read articles and columns, delivered to your inbox every weekend. after newsletter promotion Ghost Wedding by David Park is published by Oneworld (£16.99). To support the Guardian, order your copy at Delivery charges may apply.
BBC News
28-05-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Housing plan approved in Peterborough's Glinton village
Plans for nine new homes within the grounds of a Grade II listed manor house have been City Council granted the planning application for two two-bedroom homes and seven four-bedroom homes within the former farmyard area of Manor House on High Street, Parish Council and some residents objected to the plans over the design of the homes and access for vehicles. The council's case officer said the proposed homes adopted an "appropriate, traditionally referenced barn-style design theme". The applicant, Alston Country Homes, had also sought listed building consent for works to a dovecote structure on the site, which will be incorporated into one of the homes."The resulting scheme respects important views and retains the visual prominence of the dovecote within the streetscape," the case officer said. While the case officer noted the proposed development was in a part of Glinton that has a "strong local identity and historic character", they decided the development would make "effective use of brownfield land" and the layout "responds positively to the key characteristics of the site and its surroundings".The case officer's report stated: "While the site lies within the Glinton Conservation Area and within the setting of the Grade II listed dovecote, the proposed development has been informed by a detailed understanding of the site's heritage value."Construction on the site must begin within three years. Follow Peterborough news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
