Gold Hill the quaint cobbled street in the Dorset town of Shaftesbury

Visit Stonehenge and Salisbury on the same day tour

Visit Salisbury Cathedral and Stonehenge on the same tour day

Visit The Roman Baths on your tour of Bath and the Southern Cotswolds

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Ten Secrets for your Best Vacation Ever

•Your very own driver guided tours just for your party of 2 to 6 guests - we guarantee you have own vehicle and driver.

•A tremendous selection of fascinating places for you to visit- including Bath, Salisbury Cathedral & Private Tours of Stonehenge.

•Enjoy touring without packing and moving on every day.

•You Choose your own start and finish dates - any length of stay from 4 to 14 days.

•Discover and tour at your own pace. You decide how much time you want to spent at each location.

•Indulge your special interests - gardens, historic houses, castles & forts, military & naval history, countryside and much more...

•You get to stay in a lovely 300 year old thatched village house.

•Enjoy delicious 3 course gourmet dinners prepared personally by us each evening from home-grown and locally produced ingredients.

•You are based in the county of Dorset, one of the best kept secrets in England, surrounded by wonderful scenery yet only 2 hours from London.

•We are experts in creating your perfect Discover England Tour - relax and let us make life easy for you.

What makes Discover England Tours unique?

Planning a trip to England? Prefer not to be rushed around in a large tour group? Then book a stay with us in our beautiful 18th century thatched home and enjoy your personalized tour of the Southern counties of England.

We will show you an England many visitors never see: stately homes, gardens, ancient monuments and castles, picturesque villages, cathedrals and coastline. All this while you travel through picturesque English countryside with your own personal tour guide and vehicle.

Whatever your interests and with a huge choice of locations in our lovely part of England, we will create a personalized England tour to suit you. Each group has their own guide and vehicle and as we only cater for up 6 guests at a time we offer an individual and personal service.

At the end of the day return to our comfortable family home with twin bedrooms and private en-suite bathrooms. In the evening enjoy delicious traditional English gourmet cooking using produce and herbs fresh from our kitchen garden.

We are a husband and wife team offering you a uniquely enjoyable vacation in the South West of England.

We would love to show you our beautiful region of England. To Discover England click here now.

Private personalized England tours for small groups. Accommodation in a historic family home with bed & breakfast and evening meal with wine. England tours the easy way - take a short break or longer stay and enjoy private personalised England tours based in a beautiful thatched family home. See the real England when you take a customised tour with us - we will take you to see many beautiful locations in our beautiful corner of England. See stately homes, gardens, picturesque villages, ancient monuments, castles or cathedrals. We offer an affordable alternative to big bus tours. Your personal driver/guide will help you decide where to visit each day as you design your own personalized private England tour. You can customize your England tours as you go along if you wish. The perfect England vacation.

Guest reviews

2008

“What a treasure I found on the Internet!

Delicious meals, great hosts including daughter Lucy. Outstanding tours of the most beautiful gardens I’ve ever seen. Susy and Paul are wonderful hosts and a most efficient team!”

Shirley Forbing & Otis McCain

California and Texas

“It was just Fabulous! No comparison at all in 70+ years. Thank you for the warm hospitality, your lovely family, the superb weather, food and tour pace and the lovely Dorset countryside.”

Eion & Grace Scott & Irene Gilmour

Oregon & Scotland

2007

“How does one thank you for our “best”vacation ever? Susy & Paul - you have certainly outdone yourselves. Gourmet meals, a wonderful tour guide and a wonderful home! Thanks, thanks, thanks - we shall return!”

Jerry and Arlene Rosen, Bill and Chicki Cobbett, Sidney and Estelle Epstein

2006

“Our best vacation ever! Fine hosts, fine food, fine day trips. We’re moving in!”

Peter & Paula Ross, CT

• Anyone looking for a most lovely and wonderful vacation will find it here in beautiful Dorset. Susy and Paul are wonderful hosts. We saw so many exceptional places; learned much new information, ate wonderful meals and still found time to relax. This was as close to a home away from home as any holiday could ever hope to be. I envy the next visitors and would return in a heartbeat.

P.S. These “wonderfuls” are not an exaggeration!

Cynthia Piotrowski, Wisconsin

"PARADISE FOUND!”

Amelia Brown, Joan McArthur, March Nichols & Mary Weatherford, Enterprise USA

“This was the best part of my European Tour! The gardens are lovely, the food is fabulous and the dogs are so nice. Climbing Hambledon Hill was great - the best bit actually! Anyway, Church House is awesome - I want to come back! “ Rachell

Tom & Carol Patterson, Wes and Rachell Knowles

Birmingham, AL, U.S.A.