Slipper Cottage

41 Bishopston, Montacute, Yeovil, Somerset, TA15 6UX

Telephone: 01935 823073
Fax: 01935 826868

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A friendly welcome awaits you at this charming 17thC cottage, in one of Somerset's prettiest villages, where 2 of our double bedrooms are made available for guests.
Slipper Cottage is a great base from which to explore Somerset and the surrounding area.

Savour our delicious breakfast, offering you a selection ranging from porridge to a full English breakfast, with of course fresh fruit, yoghurt, homemade bread and preserves.

Our Rates are: £55 per room/per night incl. Breakfast. Single occupancy £30 - £55

Facilities in both rooms are as follows: Vanity Basins, Shaver Points, Colour Televisions, Tea & Coffee making facilities, Central Heating, Trouser presses and Hair Driers
We do not allow Pets, and operate as a NO SMOKING house.

Unfortunately Credit/Debit Cards cannot be accepted
Slipper Cottage is open all year except Christmas &New Year

MONTACUTE is only 1 mile from the main A303 (the main trunk road from London to the South West), and is about 18 miles from the M5 motorway.

Directions

From London, Heathrow or Gatwick take the M3 to J8, then the A303 to Cartgate Roundabout (about 7 miles west of Ilchester), left onto A3088, after half a mile turn right into Montacute.

From the north or south take M5 to J25, then take the A358 towards Ilminster, left onto A303 for about 10 miles to Cartgate roundabout, right onto a3088, after half a mile turn right into Montacute. We are located on the left 100 yards before the church. It is the only house with a bay window.

MONTACUTE is now a conservation village and has a tremendous amount of character. It still has it's own Post Office, Primary School and Garage.
Most houses have been built from the wonderful mellow yellow stone from 'Ham Hill', where there is a quarry used since Roman times.

MONTACUTE has 2 'eating houses' and other wonderful Pubs and restaurants in nearby villages.

There are wonderful walks round the village, including walks over Hedgecock Hill, St. Michael's Mount and Ham Hill (an Iron Age Hill Fort). You can also walk round 'Lady's Walk' especially designed for the Ladies of Montacute House to view the House and Estate. This hillside is carpeted with wild anemones and bluebells in the spring.

The film 'Sense and Sensibility was filmed here.

A Little Ancient History of Montacute:

Montacute has been in existence since 7th Century (over 1300 years) when it was called Logworesbeorth. In the 9th Century it's name changed to Bishopston, now the road on which 'Slipper Cottage' stands.During the reign of King Cnut (Canute 1016-1035), his right hand man Tofig had a vision and found a Holy Cross on St Michael's Hill, he was then to transport it to Waltham where he had Waltham Abbey built. This cross eventually was in the possession of King Harold at the battle of Hastings - although it did not do him much good!

At the time of the Domesday Book (1086), Montacute, as it was now called, was owned by the Count Robert of Mortain, half brother of William Duke of Normandy.

In 1102 Robert of Mortain established a Cluniac Priory, which was eventually pulled down in 1539 by King Henry VIII, during his Dissolution of the Monasteries. Although, the Gatehouse still exists and is still used as a private home.

In 1340 Montacute paid the 9th highest tax in the County - this tradition seems to carry on now 700 years later!!!

In 1595 Edward Phelips, the largest landowner in town, and Speaker of the House of Commons, built the magnificent Elizabethan MONTACUTE HOUSE, which is now owned by the National Trust. This is just round the corner from SLIPPER COTTAGE.
In fact, the Montacute House Estate once owned Slipper Cottage

PLACES OF INTEREST - WITHIN 10 MILES

Barrington Court - National Trust - 16th Century Elizabethan House and superb walled gardens

Cricket St Thomas Wildlife Park - The TV Series 'To the Manor Born' was filmed here.

East Lambrook Manor Gardens - designed by Margery Fish

Ham Hill, Iron Age Fort

Haynes Motor Museum

Lower Severalls Gardens

Lytes Cary - National Trust - 14th Century Manor House

Muchelney Pottery, John Leach

Perry's Cider Mill and Museum - you can sample the cider before purchase!!!

Montacute TV & Radio Museum

Muchelney Abbey & Church with oldest working barrel organ in any UK church

Tintinhull House Gardens - National Trust

Worldwide Butterflies & Lullingstone Silk Farm

Yeovilton Fleet Air Arm Museum - with Concorde 002 prototype

There are 5 golf courses within 12 miles. - Chedington Court, Long Sutton, Sherborne, Windwhistle, Yeovil

PLACES OF INTEREST - WITHIN 20 MILES

Burton Bradstock is a pretty village on the coast - next to 'Hive Beach' with National Trust Café and Free Car Parking for National Trust members.

Clarkes Village Retail Outlet at Street

Forde Abbey - 12th Century Cistercian Abbey with wonderful gardens.

Glastonbury Abbey, 7th Century, the oldest above ground Christian Church in the world!! And King Arthur's burial place

Glastonbury Tor

Hardy's Cottage (National Trust)

Hardy's House (National Trust)

Hestercombe Gardens - designed by Sir Edward Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll

Maiden Castle - near Dorchester - Iron Age Fort

Mapperton Gardens, near Beaminster, surrounding a Jacobean Manor House

Sherborne Abbey - dates originally from Saxon times

Sherborne Castle - built by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1594

West Bay - Old fishing port

World Heritage Jurassic Coast

PLACES OF INTEREST - WITHIN 1 HOURS DRIVE

Abbotsbury Swannery

Bath

Dartmoor

Dorchester - Market Town - famous for links with Thomas Hardy and 'The Mayor of Casterbridge'
Also Tutankhamun Exhibition

Dunster Castle (National Trust)

Dunster Village with it's very old Yarn Market

Exeter

Exmoor

Honiton - famous for lace making - now a good centre for antique shops

Killerton House and Gardens (National Trust) - famous costume collections from the 1700s to todayJohn Veitch created the gardens in 1770

Knightshayes Court - (National Trust) a lovely Victorian mansion with formal and woodland gardens

Lyme Regis - olde worlde seaside town, famous for it's Cobb and Quay (where they filmed 'The French Lieutenants Woman)

Quantock Hills

Salisbury

Stourhead House and Gardens - (National Trust) built in 1740 - landscaped gardens around a lake with temples and grotto.

Wells Cathedral - over 1,000 years old

Wells cathedral Bishop's Palace - with lovely gardens

Weymouth

Wookey Hole Caves - with spectacular caves, Madame Tussaud's storerooms, anda working Victorian Paper Mill

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