Luxury Hotels In Middleburg

Explore Washington Street From A Country Base

Salamander Middleburg gives the destination a country-resort reference within Virginia's equestrian and wine-country landscape.

Washington Street's historic facades give the town a clear architectural focus. Porches, storefronts and changing window patterns sit within a village scale of buildings generally one to three stories high. Tree-lined streets and brick and stone sidewalks add to the character of a town walk.

At the central crossroads, the Red Fox Inn occupies a site used for a tavern since the eighteenth century. Much of the present stone building dates from 1830, with later additions and remodelling. Its frontage is a useful stop for an architectural walk, showing how the town's hospitality buildings developed over successive periods.

See Sporting Culture In Different Materials

The National Sporting Library & Museum's permanent collection includes Sir Alfred Munnings's A Winner at Epsom, an oil painting from around 1948. Joan Danziger's Black Star, made in 2016, uses metal and glass. These works give an art visit specific contrasting forms: the painted sporting scene and a sculptural interpretation of the horse.

Add An Industrial-History Outing At Aldie

Aldie Mill Historic Park introduces the agricultural working past of the wider countryside. The merchant mill and storehouse were built between 1807 and 1809; a granary and smaller country mill followed. The four-storey brick mill's twin metal waterwheels make it a distinctive engineering landmark.

French flint burrstones ground wheat into superfine flour for commercial export. The complex shows how the rural economy depended on processing crops and moving goods, alongside the farms and inns of the surrounding landscape.

Our Virginia destination guide places Middleburg's town and countryside within a wider state journey.