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Belview Cottage Dorset family & dog friendly, EV charging point
Situated in the heart of the beautiful Blackmore Vale in North Dorset, South West UK.
Rated 5/5 on TripAdvisor - see Visitors' Book to read the reviews.
Why bother with the stress and hassle of a foreign holiday with its travel delays, health concerns and overcrowded destinations? Belview Cottage is surrounded by wide open countryside, plenty of fresh air and ample space. Dorset is a foodie paradise with a plethora of artisan food producers, country pubs and high quality restaurants. There's also plenty of outlets selling local, high quality ready meals and some will even deliver.
Belview Cottage is the perfect rural holiday location with its views of gently rolling hills and attractive countryside right on the doorstep. The historic towns of Sherborne, Shaftesbury and Dorchester are all within easy reach and the Jurassic Coast at Weymouth and Lyme Regis is is about an hour away through beautiful Dorset Countryside. Or why not spend time exploring the pretty villages and friendly small towns close by?
With its dramatic castles, historic houses, stunning gardens and many family-friendly attractions, Dorset has plenty of holiday activities for all the family. After a busy day out, return to the comfortable, well-equipped home-from-home that is Belview Cottage.
Family and dog friendly, there is a small enclosed garden and easy access to walks immediately outside the property.
Belview Cottage has one double and one twin room (with Sealy mattresses made in England) and has been completely refurbished and equipped to a very high standard, with Bosch, Panasonic, Miele, Phillips and Electrolux appliances, Royal Worcester crockery, Stellar cutlery and cookware. There is a Panasonic 40" 4K Ultra HD Smart TV with various apps including Freeview Play, Netflix, BritBox, Prime Video etc (for use with own subscription login details). Every year we upgrade and improve the facilities.
Superfast broadband with download speed of over 100 Mbps via free Wi-Fi connection is available - see Terms and Conditions for more information.
Belview Cottage is a member of The Professional Association of Self-Caterers UK.
EV CHARGER
There is an EV charger immediately outside the cottage, for guest use. It is a Rolec 7.2 kW Type 2 untethered EV charger, for slower charging, pay as you go via the Monta app.
CANCELLATIONS AND TRAVEL INSURANCE
It is your responsibility to acquire suitable travel insurance for yourself and your party to cover the booking. We strongly recommend that you acquire suitable insurance to cover circumstances beyond your control such as, but not limited to, jury duty, incarceration, change in personal or work circumstances, military service, illness – including Covid, self-isolation and shielding, family emergencies and travel delays.
Please see our Terms and Conditions for full details of our cancellation policy.
We offer weekly breaks (normal start day is Friday) for most of the year. Short breaks (minimum 3 nights) are also available (apart from July and August). These are normally Friday to Monday (3 nights) or Monday to Friday (4 nights), but do Contact Us if you would like to book a different short break.
Please do Contact Us to discuss your requirements.
Christmas/New Year breaks - different start days are available, depending on what day of the week Christmas Day and New Year's Day are - please Contact Us to discuss your requirements.
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Belview Cottage is dog-friendly and well-behaved dogs are welcome to stay - there are plenty of interesting walks starting from the cottage. Please see the paragraph on Dogs in our Terms and Conditions for more details. We are sorry that we cannot accept other pets.
We are family-friendly and for babies and toddlers, we have a travel cot, high chair and stair gates as well as several other useful items to save you bringing your own. Please see the paragraph on Babies in our Terms and Conditions for more information.
Completely refurbished - near the market town of Sturminster Newton
There is easy access to a range of footpaths for walkers, including the Wessex Ridgeway , a magnificient ridge-top route across the rural heartland of Dorset, the White Hart Link, a circular route linking towns and villages in North Dorset, The Hardy Way, a long distance walking trail through Thomas Hardy's Wessex and the North Dorset Trailway , which is also suitable for pushchairs and bicycles.
Well-behaved dogs are welcome at Belview Cottage, with prior notification - see Terms and Conditions for more information.
Travel cot, high chair and other baby equipment available on request.
The cottage has superfast broadband (speed over 10 mbps) via a free Wi-Fi connection - see Terms and Conditions for full details.
Start days are Fridays for weekly bookings. Short breaks (long weekends) are available in spring and autumn (three nights arrive Friday depart Monday morning). Short breaks are also available over the New Year holiday period. See Prices section to find out more or contact us to discuss your requirements (for example if you wish to stay for four nights).
The cottage is situated in the hamlet of Fifehead Neville, a few miles from the market town of Sturminster Newton, which has an excellent range of independent cafes, take aways and shops, as well as the Co-op supermarket, Post Office, doctors', dentists' and vets' surgeries and an ATM inside One Stop. We are also very fortunate to have The Exchange, a community and arts centre, which hosts live concerts, theatre productions, films and a wide range of acclaimed guest speakers, as well as a cafe and art gallery.
The name Fifehead Neville is derived from the Saxon word Fithyde – a hide was originally the amount of land which would support life for a free peasant family, which in Wessex was 48 acres. So Fithyde was a village of 240 acres in the time of the Domesday Book. William de Nevill, who came over from Neuville in Normandy, gave the hamlet the second part of the name.
Foundations of a Roman villa were excavated in a nearby field in 1881 and 1902-1905. You can see artefacts from the site in Sturminster Newton Museum. One of the few surviving medieval packhorse bridges in the country crosses the little river Divelish at the lower end of the hamlet – the river is aptly named since during heavy rain, it can rapidly rise to five feet deep at the ford! The parish church, dedicated to All Saints, dates in part from the 14th century, with later additions.