Apothecary's Bed & Breakfast

A first–class BREAKFAST, made up of local and organic produce where possible. ENGLISH BACON and award winning sausages from the village butcher, FREE RANGE EGGS from a local farm together with locally grown mushrooms.

All the BREAD is HOME-BAKED and the marmalade is also home-made.

We also provide EVENING MEAL if you would like one. This does need to be pre-booked before you come to us. We use home-grown vegetables and fruit in season, when available, from our garden.

You may wonder why the house is called the Old Dispensary. Well, the story goes that in the early 1800’s, there were two doctors living in the village. Front Garden at The Apothecary's B&B, WellesbourneOne of them, who lived in the Red House in Chestnut Square, which is still there today, had all the wealthy patients in the area.

The other, who also lived in Chestnut Square, had very few paying patients. Those who couldn’t pay him, he didn’t visit, but summoned them to his “dispensary” as he called it, which was then just a barn, but is in fact the front of our house. The story continues that his favourite cure was to give them a token and send them round to the Stag’s Head pub to exchange for a pint of ale. The pub is still there and still serving excellent beer, but I am afraid we don’t provide any tokens!

WELLESBOURNE makes a very good base for exploring the area.

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON is only 5 miles away with all its many attractions.

LEAMINGTON SPA and WARWICK with its fantastic castle are about 6 miles ( See “Places or interest” at the top”)

NATIONAL TRUST houses and gardens are all around us and the COTSWOLDS are only about a 30 minute drive away.

Wellesbourne is in close proximity to Stratford-upon-Avon, Leamington Spa and Warwick with its fantastic castle.