The country hotel 45 minutes from London that’s perfect for spring

THE STAY Fancy an Easter getaway without straying too far from home? Coworth Park delivers all the pleasures of a rural escape just outside London, minus passport control and Cotswolds congestion. Set across 240 acres of Berkshire parkland near Ascot, its history runs deep: the land was granted in 1066, with the mansion built in 1776. In the 1980s Galen Weston, then owner of Selfridges and Fortnum & Mason, added professional polo fields. Coworth remains the only hotel in Britain with its own polo fields. There is no Fortnum’s connection today, but Coworth still captures that same strain of English…