It's Jeremy Clarkson vs the Cotswolds Posh Set: As the former Top Gear presenter plans to convert a Cotswolds pub into an upmarket destination, CHARLOTTE GRIFFITHS says he will have his work cut out competing with the area's A-list rivals...

Following nan occurrence of his farming endeavor Diddly Squat, Jeremy Clarkson has bought a Cotswolds colony pub, The Windmill successful Asthall, for £1 million. 

The erstwhile Top Gear prima plans to person it into an upmarket destination – charting his attempts to go a pub landlord successful a caller TV series. 

But nan TV presenter will person his activity trim retired competing pinch nan area’s A-list rivals... 

Bull, Burford: Zen Zaniness... and a poker array from Idris Elba  

Described arsenic ‘50 shades of cosmopolitan luxury pinch Zen, zip and zaniness’.

Owner: Matthew Freud, multi-millionaire PR guru, whose ex-wife was Rupert Murdoch’s daughter. Is said to person led a libidinous life, pinch 5 children by 3 different women.

Location: Chi-chi municipality of Burford, Oxfordshire, ‘Gateway to nan Cotswolds’.

Vibe: Freud’s belief that ‘human relationship is nan astir powerful of narcotics – nan antidote to truthful much’.

Rooms/Food: 18 bedrooms and 4 restaurants, including nan Hiro edifice pinch its 14-course tasting menu. It follows nan Japanese Okamase accuracy that diners respectfully let nan cook to determine what’s best. (Only successful nan Cotswolds tin sushi count arsenic state pub fare.) Also has a £90-a-head outdoor barbecue. Thirty-seat eating room, wherever nan nutrient arrives successful nan middle, and group thief themselves.

Price: £210 a nighttime to enactment successful The Drunk Tank suite pinch a ace king bed, rainfall ablution and ‘wonky’ floor.

Flash toys: Poker array donated by Luther character Idris Elba. A refurbished and monogrammed Land Rover Defender. A agleam bluish padel tribunal for lovers of nan mini-tennis game, and a techno DJ successful nan plot connected Sundays. Works by celebrated artists adorn nan walls, including Andy Warhol, Banksy, Salvador Dali, Damien Hirst and Francis Bacon.

The Highway, Burford: 'Welcome To 'Freud On The World' 

In lawsuit we needed much impervious nan Cotswolds is nan caller Notting Hill, Matthew Freud, right, has coiled down his London nine Laylow, and opens his caller Cotswolds task adjacent week.

Owner: Freud is conscious of section gripes that he risks turning Burford into ‘Freud-on-the Wold’. His different venue, Bull, is 2 doors down. His boy George, who will tally this one, has worked difficult to triumph complete nan locals, priced retired of Bull. ‘When you get to a definite level of wealthiness you suffer nan worth of money,’ George quips.

Location: Burford, Oxfordshire.

Vibe: Aiming for authentic Cotswolds, and ‘stripped-back luxury’, Matthew promises it will beryllium ‘truthful to nan hardware of nan building’. But nan tapas served successful its Toro edifice whitethorn beryllium little so...

Rooms/food: 11 bedrooms complete 3 floors.

Prices: Freud plans to triumph nan ‘Cotswolds staycation wars’ by offering nan cheapest luxury edifice successful nan area pinch rooms astatine a ‘mere’ £220 per night.

Flash toys: Unlike Bull, very deliberately none. Not moreover TVs successful nan bedrooms.

Soho Farmhouse, Great Tew: A 'Posh Butlins' for Meghan 

First of London’s backstage members’ clubs to seek nan state life.

Founder: Nick Jones (husband of BBC presenter Kirsty Young) who sold 80 per cent of nan nine to tycoon Richard Caring.

Location: Great Tew, Oxfordshire, now nan ‘Beverly Hills’ of nan Cotswolds. Built connected nan tract of a derelict workplace and quiet cattle shed, it proved truthful celebrated that erstwhile it opened nan Beckhams moved adjacent door.

Vibe: ‘Country retreat for group who would ne'er different spell nan country,’ says Conde Nast Traveller. Originally dubbed ‘Posh Butlins’ for its corrugated tin buildings, it’s now THE venue to beryllium seen successful westbound of W1. Meghan Markle surely thought truthful erstwhile she held a two-night hen statement present up of her wedding to Prince Harry.

Rooms/food: 114 bedrooms, including 20 Farm Huts. Five restaurants, including nan Pen Yen that specialises successful Japanese izakaya-style dishes seared connected a robata grill, alongside buns and sashimi.

Prices: A night’s enactment successful a Piglet room is £295 – rather a batch for a flimsy woody camping abstraction shaped for illustration a pig pen.

Flash toys: Vintage electrical beverage floats carrier guests astir nan 100-acre site. Outdoor excavation (heated to 35C each year) is group wrong a lake.

Estelle Manor: £750 to slumber successful nan stables 

Rural outpost of personage hotspot Maison Estelle successful London’s Mayfair.

Owner: Sharan Pasricha, left, nan 43-year-old Indian-born CEO of hospitality marque Ennismore whose first foray into business was trading his mum’s sandwiches astatine superior school. The original woman of nan manor was creator and hostess Lady Evelyn Mason, who established a soldiers’ infirmary successful Mayfair during nan First World War.

Location: Eynsham, Oxfordshire.

Rooms/food: The Georgian Grade II-listed manor location successful nan 85-acre property costs tens of millions to refurbish. A favourite of London-based oligarchs, Tatler mag says: ‘Its opulence makes Soho Farmhouse look for illustration a Wetherspoons.’ The Brasserie serves seasonal favourites from Oxford cheddar soufflé and Alaskan king crab, to roasted heirloom cauliflower and beef Wellington. Bread and food is £5. The Billiards Room offers Chinese dishes and a play dim sum brunch.

Treatments: Chei nei tsang, an ancient Chinese tummy massage, will thief cure your ‘poor affectional digestion’, while an Ananda facial (meaning ‘pure bliss’ successful Sanskrit) promises a glowing complexion. There’s a immense Roman-inspired spa, too.

Price: A nighttime successful nan woodland cottage is £2,500 aliases you tin slumber successful nan stables for a ‘bargain’ £750 per night.

Flash toys: Four pastel-colour Land Rover Defenders and 4 mini Defenders (‘Little Landies’) for children aged 2 to five. Archery, axe-throwing, and clay pigeon shooting.

Wild Rabbit, Kingham: The Doyenne of Daylesford's pad 

Popular bolthole for DFLs (Down From London-ers).

Owner: Lady Bamford, woman of JCB tycoon Lord Bamford, and doyenne of nan Daylesford integrated nutrient scene.

Location: Oxfordshire colony of Kingham, choked pinch sandstone cottages and foodie day-trippers.

Vibe: Cotswolds to a T, incorporating woody beams, exposed chromatic walls and ivory upholstery.

Rooms/food: Suites named aft bunnies, owls and hedgehogs proceed nan cutesy countryside vibe. The room ‘celebrates accepted British cooking’ specified arsenic nan £18 rabbit limb starter pinch pea, mint and Melba toast, aliases £90 tasting menu.

Treatments: The Club by Bamford, a gym analyzable wherever King Charles’s nutritionist Rosemary Ferguson offers proposal specified arsenic beating a hangover pinch beverage thistle. Guests are encouraged to spell connected walks, thrust pastel-coloured bicycles astir nan countryside, and location are Land Rover Defenders connected site. Wellness guru Chloe Hodgson holds classes connected walks called ‘embracing nan outdoors’.

Price: A nighttime successful nan Farmhouse pantry, now a cosy retreat for two, is northbound of £500. Cottages are £800.

Flash toys: Outdoor gym, truthful guests tin link pinch nature.