It's always wonderful to hear that we have delivered a fantastic experience for our guests and visitors and today was one of those days. Today we heard that once again we have been awarded the 'Travellers Choice Award' by TripAdvisor, an award that is given based purely on the feedback of you, our guests. In a year of extreme challenges which none of us could have foreseen, it fills us with a real...

Thomas Burkitt was born in January 1892 in Calcethorpe, a small hamlet 5 miles outside of Louth, Lincolnshire to Thomas Burkitt senior, a Farm Labourer. Young Thomas didn’t appear to want to work in the fields as his father had done and by the time of the 1911 census at the age of 19, he was working at Petwood as a Gardener alongside his brother Harry aged 25. The brothers would have been working...

In times such as these it is very easy to get despondent about the situation we all find ourselves in but, here at the Petwood we believe that there are still things we can all look forward to and enjoy. We know that we have all been asked to make sure we take part in the current social isolation guidelines and it goes without saying that we all need to do whatever we can to keep ourselves and the...

We were all absolutely thrilled to be finalists in the Lincolnshire Tourism Excellence Awards on Thursday evening but truly elated to win both Hotel of the Year and Taste of Lincolnshire awards. It is testament to the hard work and dedication of all the Petwood Team, without whom we could not do what we do. We thank all of them and of course you, our wondeful loyal guests for your unstinting...

This week is National Apprenticeship Week and we wanted to highlight some of the members of our team who have been apprentices here at the Petwood or who are working on their apprenticeships now. Today we are featuring one of our incredible Gardeners, Dan Jarvis.   Dan joined us as an apprentice five years ago and is now a permanent member of our gardening team. Dan says "Completing...