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Exmoor House is the ideal place to stay if you're visiting Snowdrop Valley: check out our dinner, bed & breakfast packages. If you're just in Wheddon Cross for the day, the tearoom (or tea room if you prefer) at Exmoor House is open most days during Snowdrop Valley time - you can enjoy a delicious lunch or a light snack. Exmoor House is also open to non-residents for dinner; advance booking is essential. See our food page for more information, or contact us.

You'll find details of short breaks and dinner, bed & breakfast packages on our tariff page.

The Snowdrop Valley park & ride scheme starts from the Wheddon Cross village car park next to the pub, just a few yards from Exmoor House.

Snowdrop Valley 2012 dates:
The Park and Ride will run from Saturday 4th February to Sunday 26th February.
Drapers Way will stay closed to traffic for a further week, until Sunday 4th March, to allow walkers to continue to enjoy the snowdrops.

For more information about Snowdrop Valley, visit http://www.wheddoncross.org.uk
and the Snowdrop Valley blog at http://snowdropvalleyupdate.blogspot.com/

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 at their best, 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.

New for 2012, the West Somerset Railway is running a combined train and coach Snowdrops & Steam service right to Wheddon Cross. It runs on February 14 - 16:
http://www.west-somerset-railway.co.uk

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 • Wheddon Cross •
Exmoor National Park • Somerset TA24 7DU
tel (01643) 841432 • e-mail: info@exmoorhouse.com