Set within the beautiful Exmoor National Park, this inviting village inn was re-built around…
Old Rectory Coach House
“Bright, spacious apartments with a pool in a quitessentially English village” - VisitEngland Assessor
Sampford Brett, Somerset
Our Inspector's view
The Old Rectory Coach House is in the middle of Sampford Brett, a quintessential English village between Exmoor National Park, the Quantock Hills and Somerset's Jurassic coast. It comprises three apartments – Farm View, The Elms and The Stables. All sleep four people (or six if you use the sofa beds) and provide bright, spacious accommodation. There is central heating throughout that keeps the properties snug and warm even in the depths of winter. Outside, there are spacious grounds with a swimming pool, trampoline and climbing frame.
Facilities – at a glance
Dogs allowed
Garden
Linen provided
Parking
TV
Features
- Total units: 3
- Maximum occupancy: 4
- Children welcome
- Cots provided
- High chairs
- Onsite pool
- Offsite riding
- Offsite cycle hire
- Offsite fishing
- Offsite gym
- Private garden
- Lawn area
- Garden furniture
- BBQ on site
- Dish washer
- Washing machine
- Tumble dryer
- Microwave
- Freezer
- Sky or freeview
- Linens provided
- Towels provided
- Internet
- Low season minimum price: £351
- High season minimum price: £801
- Open all year
- Changeover day: Any.
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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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