The Grosvenor is a truly beautiful hotel of majestic grandeur, complete with pillared porte-cochère, overlooking the handsome Georgian high street of buzzing fly fishing town, Stockbridge. If you are casting around for a stylish getaway within a stone’s throw of the evening rise, the Grosvenor’s chic rooms and extravagant menus are delightful and indulgent in every measure. Stockbridge is quite literally interwoven with gin-clear, trout-filled chalk streams, so you can trawl a whole host of boutiques, artisans, coffee houses, eateries and art galleries, plus two fantastic fly fishing tackle shops, en route along your hop, skip and a jump to the banks of the famous river Test.
Welcome to the home of the Houghton Club! Founded all the way back in 1822, they are the oldest fly fishing club in the world, and with exclusive access to many private miles of the River Test, it is the dream of every devoted fly fisher to fall in with the fold. For most of us, the Grosvenor is as close as we will ever come. Thankfully this quintessential country hotel leans into their fly fishing roots, proudly proclaiming that “fly fishing is their passion and at the very core of their sporting heritage,” so fellow fly fishers are made to feel very welcome indeed. Stockbridge is a charming market town, built along a historic drover’s road which crosses the river Test and its carrier streams in five places or more, so you do not need to walk far before finding a feeding trout. The Grosvenor stands at the midship of it all and there are some sublime beats on the main river and its many tributaries within a 10 minute drive of the hotel.  If you need to restock the fly boxes before you go, Orvis and Robjents, just 100 yards up the road, are both jam packed with all the essentials for fly fishing on the chalk streams. It is for all these reasons, and many more, that the Grosvenor Hotel has become synonymous with traditional English chalk stream fly fishing, and the dream destination for every travelling fly fisher.
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