Please check our latest availability and rates for the holiday cottage and book direct with Barks Holiday Cottage owners Catherine & James.
Barks Cottage is also listed with award-winning holiday cottage booking agents Sykes Cottages... but please book direct with us now that you are here - better for us, cheaper for you!
Barks Holiday Cottage
Rural yet easy to access. Traditional yet modern. Peaceful, cosy and great to get away from it all...
The cottage has a double room, a family room, well-equipped kitchen with breakfast bar, modern bathroom with shower cubicle, and a comfortable sitting and dining room with french windows opening onto a large south-facing terrace. There are open views over fields and woods. The cottage is in a tiny hamlet, well off the road, a little way down a gravel track shared with us and the next door farm. It is a peaceful countryside getaway - but only a mile off the A road between Ashbourne and Stoke.
Family Friendly
Barks Cottage is ideal self catering holiday accommodation for a family building a holiday around a visit to Alton Towers or the Peak District. Feedback is that kids really like the fact that it is all on one floor.
Pets welcome
Barks Holiday Cottage is pet friendly and works perfectly for a couple to enjoy a Churnet Valley and Peak District walking holiday with their pet dog. Find out more about bringing your dogs to Barks. Two dogs are fine, but if you are after more than that, please contact us to discuss your requirements. We offer a paid service looking after the dog while you and the kids are at Alton Towers.
Barks Cottage sleeps:
Perfect for a family or a couple, the cottage sleeps 5 people in two bedrooms. Cot available on request.
Subject to availability, we can accommodate an extra visiting couple if you book the upstairs private double room with en-suite bathroom - Annexe - which is perfect if family or friends want to join you for a day or two. We only let the Annex to people in your own party.
Barks Self-Catering Holiday Cottage has:
Barks Self-Catering Holiday Cottage has:
- Sheets, duvets and towels are supplied
- Gas CH.
- Open fire
- Electric blanket on double bed
- Hairdryer
- TV - large digital TV.
- Microwave
- Dishwasher
- Fridge-freezer
- Washing machine
- Highchair
- Cot
- Parking for 2 cars
- Large south facing terrace with furniture and cushions.
- Large playing field, ideal for children to kick a ball etc
- Public footpath from the cottage for long road-free walks across fields and woodland
- Take-away restaurants that deliver to the property
- Pets welcome: we accept dogs - please check that the situation regarding Pets is acceptable to you.
- Wifi - definitely not superfast broadband but good enough to stream TV favourites.
Convenient for Alton Towers
Barks is 2.6 miles to Alton Towers, located on the quieter queue-free side of the theme park entrance.Children and well-behaved dogs welcome at Barks - if it helps, we offer a paid service looking after the dog while you and the kids are at Alton Towers.
There is plenty to do in the area in addition to visiting the nation's favourite theme park at Alton Towers, please visit our Holiday Ideas and things to do near Alton Towers page for some inspiration. We recommend Peak Wildlife Park.
Walkers Welcome
Barks holiday cottage is ideal as a base for walking the Churnet Valley and Staffordshire Moorlands Peak District and as a family-friendly holiday destination. Barks is wonderfully rural; with hills and valleys where you and your children and dogs can walk for miles without crossing any roads. The unexploited Churnet Valley is in the Staffordshire Moorlands, at the south end of the Peak District. See https://churnet-valley.guideWaterwayImages.jpg)
Proprietors
Please book direct with the proprietors,
Catherine and James,
01538 703163,
barkshc@gmail.com