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If you enjoy walking, Exmoor House is a great place to
stay. It's also an excellent base for cycling on Exmoor. Not only do we offer
excellent guest accommodation and food (including dinner, bed & breakfast
packages) you'll have a fantastic choice of Exmoor walks and cycle rides. Exmoor
House is Walkers Welcome and Cyclists Welcome
accredited, which means that we have walker friendly and cyclist friendly facilities
like a drying room, bike storage, lots of local information on hand, bus timetables,
and books and maps you can use while you're here. And of course we can provide
you with a delicious picnic lunch to keep you going. 
Exmoor has it all: wild moorland, forests, secret combes
- West Country for steep, wooded valleys - and the coast, all within easy reach.
The Coleridge Way, from Nether Stowey to Porlock,
passes through Wheddon Cross village. Why not spend a few car free days at Exmoor
House?
Local walks from Wheddon Cross include to Dunkery Beacon, Exmoor's highest point (about three miles from Exmoor House), or towards the Brendon Hills and Luxborough, and woodland walks taking in Snowdrop Valley. (On our links page you'll find information on public transport providers and about other websites you can visit to get suggestions for car free itineraries on Exmoor).
Horner Woods and Webbers Post are only a few miles away, and slightly further afield there are dramatic coastal walks near Minehead, Porlock Weir, Bossington and Selworthy.
For a flatter walk, try Wimbleball Lake; you can go all the way round (about 9 miles).
There's a good selection of maps and books in the Exmoor House guest sitting room, which you're welcome to borrow during your stay.
Cyclists will find some good challenging rides on Exmoor: just right to work up an appetite for dinner. One such is the Exmoor Cycle Route, which follows 2007's Tour of Britain route through Exmoor and passes through Wheddon Cross. If you're doing a one-way rather than a circular cycle ride, you could book the Moor Rover bus to bring you and your bicycle back to Exmoor House. During the year there are a number of cycling events on Exmoor, for example the Exmoor Explorer (normally in early August) and the Exmoor Beast (late October or early November).
Exmoor is wonderful country for exploring by motorbike, and we offer biker-friendly facilities (e.g. drying room, plenty of parking, somewhere to wash your bike)
If you prefer four-legged rather than two-wheeled transport,
there are a number of riding stables in the area.
You can book your accommodation at Exmoor House online:
If
you'd prefer to contact us direct, or if you have any queries at all,
just call Rosi & Frank on 01643 841432, or email us: info@exmoorhouse.com
Exmoor House is very close to the route of the Coleridge Way, the 36-mile
long-distance trail that links Nether Stowey in the Quantocks to Porlock on Exmoor.
If you’re walking the Coleridge Way, why not save your legs for the final push
to Porlock and treat yourselves to two nights dinner, bed and breakfast at Exmoor
House so you can have a rest day? You could take in a Land Rover safari (we will
be happy to help arrange one for you) or enjoy the Exmoor open-top bus ride which
you can pick you up from virtually outside our door on most Tuesdays, Thursdays,
Saturdays and Sundays throughout the summer. We can also help guests at Exmoor
House arrange a baggage transfer to Porlock, as long as you let us know in advance.
The Coleridge Way
Of course, you could make Exmoor House your Coleridge Way accommodation
base, so you don't need to worry about baggage at all! This also means that
you'll be able to take advantage of our dinner, bed and breakfast special
break rates . We'll also make a picnic lunch for you if you like (or perhaps
just a flask of soup and one of our home-made rolls). To transfer you back here
when you've finished your day's walk, and to your start point the next morning,
there is a service called the Moor
Rover bus (this needs to be pre-booked). Alternatively you could use our
local taxi service.
Other long distance paths on Exmoor
Wheddon Cross is near the starting point
of the Exmoor Ridgeway, a long-distance walk that follows an ancient track
across the moor. There is no accommodation at the half-way point of this two-day
walk, but why not stay at Exmoor House and make use of the Moor Rover bus?
We are also within striking distance of the routes
of the Macmillan Way West, a waymarked trail which runs for 102 miles
from Castle Cary to Barnstaple, and the Samaritans Way, which links Bristol
to Lynton.
Rosi & Frank
Exmoor House •
Wheddon Cross
Exmoor National Park • Somerset TA24 7DU
tel (01643) 841432 • e-mail: info@exmoorhouse.com
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