Leigh Holt is a one floor cottage, on a working beef farm near Shepton Mallet. It has its own…
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Steam through the rolling Mendip countryside on a day out at The East Somerset Railway. Take a ride on one of the steam trains and travel back in time. There are plenty of events throughout the year from Easter to October, Santa Specials and Enthusiast Gala Weekends, as well as Sunday lunch and cream tea services on the Luxury Mendip Belle.
Facilities – at a glance
Assist dogs allowed
Fully accessible
Refreshments
Suitable for all child ages
Features
- Suitable for children of all ages
- Parking onsite
- Cafe
- Fully accessible
- Facilities: Ramp from road to platform & train
- Accessible toilets
- Opening Times: Open Mar-Oct, wknds & BHs 10-4.30; plus Wed-Thu/Fri during summer hols. Dec for Santa Specials
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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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