Rental cottages in Wiltshire ★★☆
A place to call your own—renting a cottage or villa in Wiltshire
Reid's List of Wiltshire cottages
- Vrbo.com -
VRBO stands for "Vacation Rentals By Owner," a worldwide virtual classifieds section devoted to villas, apartments, cottages, houses, and other places to lay your head fromas little as $400 per week in England. Thre are a stunning 33,761 properties available in England, 4,896 in Scotland, and 5,123 in Wales.
Though designed to allow villa and vacation home owners to rent to the public directly—ostensibly cutting out the extra costs involved in working through a middle-man rental agency—in my experience plenty of small-fry local rental agencies use it as well (not that there's anything wrong with renting through those folks; just wanted to let you know that not every property listed is truly direct from the owner).
Partner - Booking.com - A whopping 10,200 cottages, villas, and rental homes across the U.K.Partner
- Cottages.com - Premier organization (part of the Wyndham family) with more than 11,000 temporary homes on tap in England, 2,200 in Scotland, and 1,500 in Wales.
- English-country-cottages.co.uk - Premier organization with more than 3,000 temporary homes on tap in England (think: Lake District or Cotswolds), Scotland, and Wales
- Rentalo.com - Another sizeable database for one-stop shopping, with more than 2,600 properties across the U.K. They also handle everything from standard hotels to B&Bs, agriturism, and even castles.Partner
- Nationaltrust.org.uk - Some 417 properties throughout England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, almost all of them of historic or architectural import or in terribly scenic areas that the National Trust is helping preserve. This is the very highest quality stuff, folks, but you do pay for such selectivity. Still, there are some great deals.
- Living-architecture.com - A non-profit with the quriky mission of commissioning top architects to design bold new living spaces across Britain—and then renting them out. A balancing barn cantilevered over a ridge near the Suffolk Coast? Check. A houseboat moored to the roof of the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London? Also check. Just seven properties currently, but some stunners.
- Belvilla.com - 386 holiday cottages across the U.K., with the preponderence in Kent.Partner
- Scottish-country-cottages.co.uk - Sister site to the "English Country Cottages," with nearly 400 options whether you want a house on the outskirts of Edinburgh or a cottage lost in the Highlands.
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