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Valley: check out our dinner, bed & breakfast
packages. If you're just in Wheddon Cross for the day, you can enjoy a delicious
lunch in our tearoom (or tea room if you prefer!) which is
open most days during Snowdrop Valley time - please contact us for details.
(The rest of the year we can do lunches or teas for small groups of people by
special arrangement, and we are also open to non-residents for dinner; advance
booking is essential. See our food page for more information).
To make a booking for accommodation or meals at Exmoor
House, just call Rosi & Frank on 01643 841432, or email us: info@exmoorhouse.com
See our tariff page for details
of short breaks and dinner, bed & breakfast packages.
For more information about Snowdrop Valley see http://www.wheddoncross.org.uk
The Snowdrop Valley park & ride normally operates from late January or early February, for three weeks. It starts from the Wheddon Cross village card park, just a few yards from Exmoor House.
From its source near Dunkery Beacon, the river Avill follows
a twisting course down to the Bristol
Channel
near Dunster. Very picturesque in its own right, the Avill Valley really comes
into its own in the spring, when the riverbanks are carpeted in snowdrops.
Each spring people come from miles around to visit Snowdrop Valley.
In fact it's become so popular that during Snowdrop Valley time a park-and-ride
scheme, making use of special pint-sized buses, operates from Wheddon
Cross.
The walk down to the valley is very pretty, but it's steep and the path can
be muddy and slippery. So if you don’t fancy walking the whole way (about a
mile) you can just nip across the road to the park-and-ride bus stop.
Though the computer screen can’t really do the colours justice, the pictures here hopefully give some idea of why Snowdrop Valley has them packing on those buses.
It’s impossible, of course, to say exactly when the snowdrops
will be on show, but if you come to Exmoor House in February or early March
you may strike it lucky. If you don’t, you’ll just have to make do with fantastic
views from Dunkery, Exmoor ponies grazing on Winsford Hill, the chance of seeing
wild deer - you know, just the usual stuff.
Exmoor House • Wheddon Cross •
Exmoor National Park • Somerset TA24 7DU
tel (01643) 841432 • e-mail: info@exmoorhouse.com
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