From Thursday, 1 May The Stables restaurant is open every day. For all enquiries please see www.thestableshospitality.com
Cat has selected very special offers for you in July Don't let this dreary weather get you down! Cheer yourself up by visiting The Lavender Rooms.
Janet Jordan presents CRAIG ASKEW 9th to 29th July Seascapes. Gorgeous new exhibition in our Lutyens Gallery. Open daily 10 to 5.30p.m. Situated in part of our Stables Restaurant which occasionally is reserved for private functions. So if you are visiting from afar, do contact us in the event that the Gallery has limited access. Otherwise, come along and enjoy this new exhibition open until 29th July. It'll make you smile!
It may look gloomy outside - as we wait summer - but Head Chef, Kevin and his creative team have lots of tasty treats on the menu freshly made every day. Pop in for lunch, tea and cake, coffee and a pud....! Fancy a coffee and a rich chocolate muffin? Finish lunch with a light a zingly lemon posset.....
Seats still available on the Hestercombe Express for 11th, 18th, 25th July. Book now! Stopping at a station near you.... Book direct with the West Somerset Railway.
The Brewhouse presents ' As you Like It' so book now!
Did you experience the sheer terror of our 2011 Hallowe'en night tours? If you did, you shared an award winning experience! The talented Outdoor Team of 1610 won EVENT OF THE YEAR award beating 19 other centres. 1610 run amazing holiday programmes and special events for youngsters including the BEST and most TERRIFYING night tours during Hallowe'en
Wedding Co-ordinator, Julie White, has created a very special offer for selected Saturday weddings THIS August! Plan your gorgeous summer garden wedding here at Hestercombe and save a massive £2000 on selected Saturdays in August this year. Wedding for 50 guests to include: Reception Drink Canapes Three course wedding breakfast Glass of wine Toast drink Evening Buffet Venue Hire Normally priced at £6708 - high season Saturdays Special Offer £4,700 SAVING £2000 - that's the honeymoon sorted!
Is accepted HERE! The Hudson's Explorer Pass is your ticket to great days out at fantastic, money-saving prices. For…
The gardens are looking gorgeous and it's fabulous to see so many children enjoying the summer activity programme.…
Every Wednesday during May to September. Book now for your day out on the railway combined with the beauty of…
These little darlings visited Hestercombe for tea today Visiting with their childminders, these dear little lambs were as good as gold sitting in the Coffee Shop at Hestercombe for morning tea.
Peter Renshaw, Director and Trustee of Viridor Credits visited Hestercombe this morning. Photographs were taken at West Combe Dam in recognition of the generosity of Viridor Credits who continue to support Hestercombe's restoration. DAM GOOD FOR BATS! Restoration work completed in Hestercombe’s secret West Combe Valley Hestercombe’s significant population of bats are benefiting from a huge new feeding ground in the form of a large lake that has just been reinstated in the little-known West Combe Valley. The lake, the centre piece of the secret 13-acre valley just off the main drive, attracts a mass of insects, acting like a giant food bowl for the colony of endangered Lesser Horseshoe Bats and the even more rare Barbastrelle bats that frequent the estate. A generousaward from Viridor Credits has enabled the tumble down ancient dam, built in the valley in 1698 to create a reservoir, to be skilfully restored and, following intensive excavation work, the lake has subsequently filled with water again. The overgrown valley has also been cleared and re-planting is underway to introduce a range of shrubs that will further attract insects to add to the bat bonanza. Ultimately, West Combe will also be open to visitors at specified times for countryside walks. “‘We continue to be enormously grateful to Viridor Credits for their on-going support at Hestercombe. The award we received towards the restoration work at West Combe has enabled us to open up this hidden gem of a valley; it’s proving a real boon to the bats and we hope to be able to open up walks here for visitors at certain times” says a delighted, Philip White, Chief Executive of the Hestercombe Gardens Trust. Photo: PETER RENSHAW, Director and Trustee of Viridor Credits and OLIVER WHITE, Operations Manager of the Hestercombe Gardens Trust on the reinstated dam wall in West Combe Valley where bats now enjoy the benefits of the restored lake. For further information please contact Rebecca Pow on 07900 685 303 rebecca@powproductions.tv or Hestercombe 01823 413923 Notes to the Media Viridor Credits actively seeks applications from not-for-profit groups, organisations and projects that would not necessarily obtain funding from other, often more complicated, grant schemes. Applications can be made for projects that fall into one of three categories, provided that the project is located within 10 miles of an active Viridor landfill site. They are: · Provision or maintenance of public amenity; · The conservation or promotion of biological diversity within the vicinity of a landfill site through o the provision, conservation, restoration or enhancement of a natural habitat, or o the maintenance or recovery of a species or its habitat on land or water · Maintenance, restoration or renovation of buildings of historical or architectural importance or those used for religious worship, provided they offer public access Viridor Credits Environmental Company is an environmental body and totally separate and independent from Viridor, the recycling solutions company.
