Chettle Lodge

08/05/2025

View of The Lodge from Chettle Home Field 🌼🌱 there are lots of beautiful walks to be taken in Chettle and the surrounding area, with no shortage of stunning wildlife to be seen and heard. A guide to Chettle walks can be found in your welcome pack during your stay, or pick one up from if you’re just passing through 💚

01/05/2025

Happy May Day & Beltane Blessings🪻🧚🏻‍♀️✨ The Lodge Gardens have bloomed and burst to life seemingly overnight! 🌿🌷 we had our village May Pole celebrations last weekend when the sun crept out for us for a few hours 🌞 beautiful May pole pics by .earth 🪶

19/03/2025

The flowers are coming out…. 🌸🌼🪻❤️

17/02/2025

Throwback to when the conker tree in the garden fell into the field in Feb 2014… thank god it fell that way and not into the house! The gods were smiling down on us that day.

19/12/2024

Christmas at the Lodge ❤️🎄🎁✨we had so much fun hosting the Christmas Market and now we’re ready to host our last guests of the year in seasonal style ❤️

06/12/2024

Exciting news! The Chettle Makers Market happening this Saturday will now be taking place in Chettle Lodge! 😍

We will have 30 wonderful local makers, Artists and vendors offering responsibly made goodies, as well as delicious food and drink made from Chettle produce (and by Chettlers!) we hope you can join us. Parking available, free entry, and as well as being able to peruse all of our gorgeous goods on offer, you can take a look around the lovely Lodge 🙂 lots of seating and cosy areas to sit and have your mulled cider amongst beautiful art, wares and produce! ❤️

Don’t forget to visit our amazing shop on your way in/out though - lots of new stock in for Christmas, PLUS a special offer just for Saturday - spend £25 and get a free hot drink ☕️

03/12/2024

View of and from Chettle Lodge with the cows! Our occasional neighbours at The Lodge🐄🌿 other neighbours roaming the fields may include but not limited to: sheep, chickens, Chettle children 🤪

28/11/2024

Happy birthday Chettle Village Store, the art on our walls, Chettle's chickens need your help & next weekends Makers Market info... -

It’s been a busy Autumn in Chettle Lodge - we’ve hosted birthdays, hen-dos, family get togethers and we’ve trained another 20+ hedge planting leaders from St Ethelburgas ‘Lifelines’ project, who will then take a team of volunteers and plant thousands of new hedgerow plants across the UK. W...

27/11/2024

“Without God, castles are nothing” 🏰 this is the Castleman family motto, featured here on this beautiful restored section of stained glass ❤️

As many of you may know, Chettle Lodge used to be The Castleman hotel and restaurant. The Lodge came into the Castleman family in the mid 1800s.

The Castlemans were bankers and railways builders, building the old line from Southampton to Dorchester known as the Castleman Corkscrew. Most of this line closed in the 1960s and now forms the Castleman Trailway, a 16.5 mile walking trail 🚂

Anne Castleman was the granddaughter of infamous Dorset smuggler Isaac Gulliver 💰 who was himself married to Chettle resident Elizabeth Beale.

So much incredible history for one little village!

When The Lodge was being renovated in the 1990s before opening at The Castleman Hotel and Restaurant in 96, this piece of stained glass window was found languishing in the stables! It was taken it to the works department at who restored it beautifully. ❤️

It is now inlaid in the reception desk in the entrance hall to The Lodge, backlit and glowing for all of our guests to enjoy! You can learn more about Chettle Lodge and Chettle village’s rich history on our website.

21/11/2024

A lovely sprinkling of snow for The Lodge this morning 🤍❄️✨ do you have any snow wherever you are today? 🌨️

18/11/2024

The Stable Loft is our recently renovated cosy 2 bedroom apartment, available to rent alongside the lodge or separately 💛 set on the first floor above the original stable features, it’s the perfect place for a chilled Chettle getaway 🌿 head to our website for more info on The Stable Loft 🐴