Honeycomb Cottage (1472)

Tropiquaria (4.0 miles)
Outside you’ll see monkeys, meerkats, wallabies and emus… inside are the scary snakes and spiders. If you really, really want to, you can touch them.

Cleeve Abbey (4.5 miles)
An idyllically-located Cistercian abbey with fabulous cloisters and a unique painted chamber.

The Lynda Cotton Gallery (4.5 miles)
Contemporary art and sculpture plus an impressive collection of period paintings.

Watchet (4.6 miles)
Just along the Somerset coast from its bigger and more famous sister resort Minehead, Watchet is a quiet little harbour town with a long maritime history. The Quantock Hills rise behind Watchet and beaches fringe the town to the east and west, providing lots of opportunity for water sports, cycling, walking and horse riding. The West Somerset Railway, which runs through Watchet, is a fun way to see the coast here – all the trains are classic steam locomotives.

Old Cleeve (5.2 miles)
A tiny Exmoor village in the north east of the National Park, Old Cleeve has changed little in generations. The whole of Exmoor stretches out from the doorstep here, with heather and gorse-tangled valleys, streams, wild ponies and total tranquillity. Visitors come at all times of year to enjoy this pristine wilderness; Exmoor has a different face for each season, from the soft green lushness of spring to the snow-sprinkled crispness of winter.

Nether Stowey (5.6 miles)
On the fringes of the Quantock Hills, Nether Stowey is a village where rural community spirit is alive and well – perhaps the fact that three busy pubs still thrive here is testament to this. The most famous former resident of Nether Stowey is the legendary poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge; his passion for walking the hills and valleys of this beautiful countryside is commemorated in the Coleridge Way, a magnificent 36 mile trail that crosses the Quantocks on its way to Exmoor.