A 19th-century pub high up in the Exmoor National Park, The Rest and Be Thankful Inn overlooks…
Exmoor Character Cottages
“Three pretty cottages within easy reach of Exmoor and sandy beaches.” - VisitEngland Assessor
Minehead, Somerset
Our Inspector's view
Vicarage Road is the historic location for Exmoor Character Cottages' three superb luxury holiday properties, each with a luxurious hot tub and pretty gardens. The Old Sweet Shop and Pilgrim Corner both sleep 8, while Stone Barn sleeps 6. Outside are pretty cottage gardens with furniture and a hot tub. All are child friendly and well-behaved dogs are welcome.
Facilities – at a glance
Dogs allowed
En Suite
Garden
Linen provided
TV
Features
- Total units: 3
- Maximum occupancy: 8
- Children welcome
- Cots provided
- High chairs
- Child gates
- Onsite jacuzzi
- Offsite cycle hire
- Private garden
- Lawn area
- Garden furniture
- Dish washer
- Washing machine
- Tumble dryer
- Microwave
- Freezer
- Sky or freeview
- En suite
- Linens provided
- Towels provided
- Internet
- Fireplace or wood burning stove
- Open all year
- Changeover day: Changeover days are Friday for Exmoor Character Cottages in Minehead
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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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