Pardlestone Farm and Groom’s Cottage (sleeps four) offer B&B and self-catering accommodation at the foot of the Quantock Hills – the West Country’s least known yet most accessible unspoilt wilderness – and within walking distance of Kilve village pub and shop and Somerset’s spectacular Jurassic coastline.
Perfect as a base for walking, horse riding and mountain biking (visitors are welcome to bring bikes, dogs (in the cottage) and even horses), it’s only a few hundred yards along our sleepy no-through lane and on to the hills – the UK’s first designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).
Here, thousands of acres of open moorland and ancient wooded valleys are criss-crossed with footpaths and bridleways, including the nationally important Coleridge Way, where you can follow in the footsteps of the romantic poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his friend, William Wordsworth, all the way to Lynmouth, or link to the Two Moors Way and the South West Coast Path.
Many of our visitors love to search for fossils on Kilve Beach, where the stratified Jurassic cliffs make for such a spectacular landscape that it’s designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and considered to be of international geological importance.
All of our visitors are welcome to relax in the gardens at Pardlestone Farm, where there’ll be little to interrupt the sound of birdsong, save the scampering hooves of a passing deer or the distant whistle of a heritage steam train.
Local sight-seeing includes a Norman castle, abundant wildlife, chocolate-box villages, teashops, gardens and even outlet shopping, all within easy reach. If you favour a leisurely pace of travel, the nearby West Somerset Steam Railway can transport you across the area, opening up new and breath-taking vistas from the Quantocks out to sea, and on towards Exmoor.
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