This Small Town in Virginia Is a U.S. Dupe for the English Countryside

You have to pass the passion of Jane Austain to dream of English rural areas in 2025. This year is 250th anniversary pride and Prejudice The birth of the author and the idea of ​​a delightful, rose-skeptical, ever very hot English rural areas seem to fantasies, buckets and social media feeds worldwide. While we all cannot travel to the country of Austain in this summer, we Be able to do Go close to the house somewhere – especially if your house is on the east coast.

At a distance of about an hour from Midilberg, Virginia, Washington, DC, the state-party north of the craving of a cottage is north, and has never been a better time to go.

Known for its huge horse fields, rolling wineyards, historic Country Ins, and independently owned boutiques, there are types of roads and scenes in Middleberg that are directly drawn from one of the Austain’s books. Nevertheless, the city has managed to fly under the radar for years, despite being located in the wealthiest county in the United States (Loudown County) and being a favorite destination of many political and Hollywood icons.

Elizabeth Taylor called Middleberg Home during his wedding to Senator John Warner, and Kennedes had a 166 -acre field owned here, which he used to use as a weekend house during his time at the White House. And although JFK disliked her weekend here, Jackie remained a local stability in the city even after her husband’s assassination and a regular in Red Fox in and Tavern.

“Virginia Pidmont’s unusual lifestyle,” Red Fox and whose family have been in Middleberg for seven generations for seven generations, is what is Jackie. This is the “charm of the old world” of Middleberg, along with Lifestyle-Forest hunting, horse racing, and polo-playing tony.

In the old world, the osten-esk attraction post-shaped downtown, antique stores and independently owned boutiques such as Krem de la Crams, which sells a high curate selection of European homes. After running a similar business in Holland, owners Tara and Ben Vegdam opened the shop 25 years ago. Middleberg proved to be a natural place to open its business after leaving Europe. Tara Vegdam is in a hurry to tell that it is the “European attraction Meat Everyday Living” of Middleberg that has made the shop such successful. He currently has a customer membership base of over 100,000 people and runs several other places of his shop in Virginia and Maryland, although the Middleberg Spot remains the biggest travelable draw.

Many shops run on the footsteps of Crame de la cram and thrive in the city, which have a population of only 700. Middleberg’s books, which were opened in 2023 by a local librarian, who credits her success with those traveling here. The owner Mary Beth Morel says, “We have found that about 75 percent of our customers are out of the city.” “This is a pleasure to see our attractive small jewel-box of a book shop as a destination in itself.”

Other small shops, such as high-highlife clothiers, who sell elegant countries, federal and black colored, offering household items and gifts, and kneading, which sells homemade pizza, virginia peanut cookies, and Somelier-fed wine, all dedicated to fancies.

Middleberg’s winery has also helped establish the area as a destination. And while the alcohol produced here cannot be really an old world, it is a matter of beauty on its own. Virginia’s liquor industry has increased to a great extent in recent years, and local producers, including greenhills, boxwood and canna, are the right places to take all this.

Outside the city, visitors will get two Country Ins: Salamander and Goodstone. Both hotels have been tucked away from the city and on a sufficient parcel of the land, and it is easy to imagine any Jane Austain heroine wandering in her ground.