Exclusive’s Lainston House is a stately country hotel set in 63 acres of gardens and grounds just outside the medieval capital, Winchester. Enjoy period rooms and brilliant 17th-century architecture, sip a gin and tonic overlooking the longest lime tree avenue in the UK, or indulge in a top-notch six-course tasting menu in the grand wood-panelled dining room. With delicious foods, decadent digs and world class fly fishing on the famous Hampshire chalk streams within a lain-stone’s-throw, this is first class fishing accommodation at its very best.
This gorgeous stately home stands on the outskirts of the cathedral city of Winchester, a 15 minute drive to the river Itchen. The market town and fly fishing capital Stockbridge is just 15 minutes in the opposite direction, where lies the famous River Test. You can reach the River Kennet in Newbury in under 40 minutes, and the Hampshire Avon near Salisbury in 35. Such is the unique position of Lainston House in central Hampshire, it is difficult to know which way to turn. There is fantastic fly fishing in every corner of the map.
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