Crofts Annexe, Market Place, Abbots Bromley, Yoxall, Staffordshire, WS15 3BS

Abbots Bromley is a charming and prize-winningly well-kept village (famous also for the Abbots Bromley Horn Dancers, whose horns are on display in the local church). The property is located very centrally in the village overlooking the Butter Cross (medieval hexagonal pagoda) and the nearby Goats Head and Crown public houses.

Access to the first floor flat is through a shared front door and up a relatively steep flight of steps.

The accommodation comprises a sitting area with TV and wifi, a kitchen/diner and a fairly cosy double bedroom with ensuite shower room.

The flat was clean and well provided for, including oven, stove, microwave, dishwasher (but not a washing machine) and sufficient cooking utensils and tableware for 2. Ventilation in the shower room could have been improved by the ability to open the velux window in the roof (but this is too high to do without a stick on a hook) but it was adequate to keep down condensation if we opened the bedroom and kitchen windows for blow-through. The water was impressively (scaldingly!) hot throughout our stay.

One thing could have improved our stay: a folder or leaflet of information about local businesses, services and recreational opportunities. A guest book would also have been nice, to find out about what other people found interesting during their stay.

We spent several days visiting the lovely local National Trust properties, having purchased membership, and several more days walking various routes in the Peak District (although to get to some of these places we had to drive for more than an hour to the start). Abbots Bromley is more accurately adjacent to the Peak District and Dales than in it!