Cornwell Manor is a privately owned country house and estate in the Cotswolds, near Chipping Norton on the Oxfordshire–Gloucestershire border, best known today as an exclusive wedding and events venue. It combines a multi-period manor house, a model hamlet and extensive landscaped grounds within about 2,000 acres of countryside designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
The Manor sits in a small valley between Chipping Norton and Stow‑on‑the‑Wold, surrounded by farmland, woodland, lakes and spring‑fed streams. At its centre is the tiny hamlet of Cornwell, mentioned in the Domesday Book, with a Norman-origin church of St Peter tucked among the trees.
Indeed the house is often described as one of the most admired Classical country houses in the Cotswolds.
It may be a wedding venue today but it has a romantic past. During the Second World War, the manor served as an ATS billet for women collecting wounded soldiers. The gazebo by the bottom lake bears carved initials and graffiti from lovers who met during that time - beautiful
 
Interesting facts...
A Jacobean youth’s portrait (likely Sir Thomas Penystone, the first baronet) is fixed into the panelling above the dining hearth; legend holds it cannot be moved or the boy will scream!