Bledington · Cotswolds · OX7 6XL
Two lakes in five acres, at the quiet end of Bledington.
A three-bedroom lodge on the bank, a private carp fishery, and a coffee hatch by the gate — run by the two people who live here.
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Pick the reason you are coming.
The three sides of Chad Lakes are booked separately and run separately. Whichever you start with, the other two are a short walk from the door.
Chad Lakes Retreat
Fleece Lodge
A single-storey lodge for six on the bank of Home Pool, let whole. Three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a wood burner for the cold half of the year and a firepit for the other — with the water at the end of the deck.
Sleeps 6 — one king, two twins, two bathrooms
Dogs welcome, single storey, private parking for six cars
Book direct: no agency fee, and an answer the same day
Chad Lakes Fishing
Chad Pool & Home Pool
Two waters that fish nothing like each other, let in small numbers and worked hard on fish care.
18 swims · mirrors and commons to 30lb+
24 and 48 hour sessions, or the whole lake
Barbless, two rods, fishery mats and nets
Chad Lakes Coffee
The hatch
Coffee, bacon baps and Harumi's banana bread, from the hatch beside the car park.
Friday to Sunday, from 7am
Takeaway only · walkers and dogs welcome
Flasks taken down to the bank on request
Also from the gate
Chad Lakes
One gate, five acres, and three things going on behind it.
Off the B4450 between Bledington and Stow-on-the-Wold, down a gravel drive that does not look like much until it opens out. Two spring-fed lakes with a causeway between them, a lodge set low on the bank, and a hatch by the car park that starts pouring coffee before most of the county is awake.
It was a working fishery first. Everything built since has been built around not spoiling it.
Damion and Harumi live on site — twenty years in Tokyo, then this, and a cockapoo called Bella. Between them they run the lodge, the lakes and the coffee hatch, which means the person answering the phone is also the person who knows whether the kingfishers were out this morning.
Five acres does not sound like much until you are the only people on it. There are two lakes to walk, a heron who thinks he owns the shallows, and enough distance from the road that the evenings go properly quiet.
Four cabins, going up on the far bank.
Four self-contained cabins are being built along the quiet side of Chad Pool — one to a swim, each with the water four steps from the door. Built for anglers who want a bed, a hot shower and a door that shuts, without giving up the night on the bank.
Visual — how the four cabins will sit on the far bankEach cabin has its own peg and its own stretch of bank. Nobody walking through, and nobody setting up beside you at two in the morning.
A real bed, a hot shower and somewhere dry to put wet kit — rather than three nights under a brolly.
Rods out of the door and a covered deck to sit under, so the session carries on whatever the weather does.
Enough to cook properly and a firepit outside, with the coffee hatch a two-minute walk up the track.
Booking
Book direct with the people who live here.
The lodge goes through our own booking page and the fishing through Catch. If you want both, say so and we will work it out between us.