GREENBANK BED & BREAKFAST             

GREENBANK CHURCH STREET BOWERCHALKE SALISBURY WILTS SP5 5BE

Telephone   01722 780350              e-mail  suelee@greenbank101.com

                A B&B SITUATED IN HEART OF THE WESSEX COUNTRYSIDE 

     IDEAL BASE LOCATION FOR TOURING WESSEX AND ITS ATTRACTIONS

OR A WELCOME RESTING PLACE TO UNWIND FROM THE WORKING DAY

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                             Welcome to Greenbank Bed & Breakfast

Located in a designated conservation area, Greenbank is a country house offering en suite ground floor accommodation, ample off road parking and 

a warm welcome from your hosts are Sue & Paul. Its location is a quiet haven to unwind from the working day or an ideal base camp for trips to places of interest in and around Wessex plus walking, cycling and fishing in the surrounding countryside.

The house itself is centrally located in the village of Bowerchalke at the upper end of the picturesque Chalke Valley which is part of the Cranborne Chase Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

As the pictures show we have a large mature garden that has various seating areas where you can sit back, relax and take in the tranquil surroundings. In the summer, weather permitting breakfast can be served on the patio. A full English breakfast is available along with healthy alternatives.

Accommodation on offer is two non smoking en suite double rooms complete with HD free view televisions, radio alarm clocks, tea /coffee making facilities and Internet coverage provided by BT Fon WiFi or BT Openworld WiFi. 

Guests also have use of their own conservatory/lounge where they have access to board games, magazines and items of local interest..

Payment for rooms is by Cash or Cheque except where a deposit is paid when using Online Booking.

For lunches and evening meals there are a number of good traditional country pubs nearby serving excellent food. For details of these pubs or other eating places, your hosts Sue & Paul will be only to happy to advise and also book a table for you, should you chose to visit any of them.

For availability please phone 01722 780350 or Sue's Mobile 07812 486045 

email  suelee@greenbank101.com

Our Access Statement is available on request, by e-mail or post.

About Bowerchalke

Although it is only a small village it has some notable attributes in that it has been home to Nobel Prize winning author William Golding, Futurologist Prof James Lovelock and Poet Siegfried Sassoon. William Golding is also buried in the village churchyard. From 1878 to 1924 the village had its own newspaper that sold for a farthing and was published by the Rev Edward Collett. A book about the Bowerchalke Parish Papers by Rex Sawyer was first published in 1989.

The Doomsday Book refers to this area as the Manor of Chelke and it was not until 1225 that the name Burchelke first appeared. Further back in history prior to the Roman occupation of Britain this area was inhabited by a tribe called the Durotriges and legend has it that the Bowerchalke hamlet of Woodminton was the site of a battle between them and Augusta's second legion commanded by Vespasian circa AD43. The battle was fought at a place known locally as Patty’s Bottom and legend has it that on certain moonlight nights tramping is distinctly heard and headless horses can be seen rushing madly about.