A family-run 17th century, tile-hung coaching inn ideally positioned for visitors to the…
Apple Tree Hotel
“Countryside location and smart accommodation” - AA Inspector
BRIDGWATER, SOMERSET
Our Inspector's view
Once a farm cottage, dating back over 300 years, Apple Tree is popular hotel that provides a perfect base to explore the local area, including the unspoilt beauty of the Quantock Hills. Whether choosing to stay for business or leisure, the warmth of welcome is always the same, with the owners ensuring guests are well looked after. Bedrooms provide all expected contemporary comforts, and are split between the main building and adjacent garden rooms. Dinner is served in the conservatory restaurant, perhaps preceded by a relaxing drink in the bar or library lounge.
Facilities – at a glance
Afternoon tea
Family rooms
Outdoor parking
Wi-Fi
Features
- En-suite rooms: 16
- Family rooms: 2
- Bedrooms Ground: 6
- Free TV
- Broadband available
- WiFi available
- Children welcome
- Ironing facilities
- Cots provided
- High chairs
- Children's portions or menu
- Outdoor parking spaces: 30
- Walk-in showers
- Single room, minimum price: £80
- Double room, minimum price: £127
- Open all year
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About the area
Discover Somerset
Somerset means ‘summer pastures’ – appropriate given that so much of this county remains rural and unspoiled. Ever popular areas to visit are the limestone and red sandstone Mendip Hills rising to over 1,000 feet, and by complete contrast, to the south and southwest, the flat landscape of the Somerset Levels. Descend to the Somerset Levels, an evocative lowland landscape that was the setting for the Battle of Sedgemoor in 1685. In the depths of winter this is a desolate place and famously prone to extensive flooding. There is also a palpable sense of the distant past among these fields and scattered communities. It is claimed that Alfred the Great retreated here after his defeat by the Danes.
Away from the flat country are the Quantocks, once the haunt of poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. The Quantocks are noted for their gentle slopes, heather-covered moorland expanses and red deer. From the summit, the Bristol Channel is visible where it meets the Severn Estuary. So much of this hilly landscape has a timeless quality about it and large areas have hardly changed since Coleridge and Wordsworth’s day.
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