A 19th-century pub high up in the Exmoor National Park, The Rest and Be Thankful Inn overlooks…
Duddings Country Cottages
“A group of beautifully maintained cottages in a National Park setting” - VisitEngland Assessor
Timberscombe, Somerset
Our Inspector's view
Duddings is set in the beautiful Avill Valley in Exmoor National Park, two miles from medieval Dunster and four from Minehead. The twelve cottages range in size from the Stables which sleeps 16 to 18 in eight bedrooms, down to the Cleeve and the Horner, both of which sleep two. Facilities include indoor swimming pool and spa bath, tennis court, and games room with table tennis, pool, and table football. There’s also a trampoline and a kids’ play area.
Facilities – at a glance
Dogs allowed
En Suite
Garden
Linen provided
Parking
Features
- Total units: 12
- Maximum occupancy: 76
- Children welcome
- Cots provided
- High chairs
- Child gates
- Onsite pool
- Onsite jacuzzi
- Onsite tennis
- Offsite riding
- Offsite cycle hire
- Offsite fishing
- Private garden
- Lawn area
- Garden furniture
- BBQ on site
- Dish washer
- Washing machine
- Tumble dryer
- Microwave
- Freezer
- Sky or freeview
- En suite
- Linens provided
- Towels provided
- Internet
- Fireplace or wood burning stove
- Low season minimum price: £276
- High season minimum price: £575
- Open all year
- Changeover day: Saturdays for cottages sleeping 2-6, Fridays for cottages sleeping 11-18. Breaks Fridays & Mondays
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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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