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At Exmoor House you can...

Escape to Exmoor for a short break (or a weekend break) from everyday life. Exmoor House dinner, bed & breakfast packages are great value. The atmosphere is relaxed, smoke-free and TV-free. It's also mobile phone-free: most of them don't work up here.

Enjoy our excellent food, home-made using good local produce (accompanied by some nice wine, local beer or Somerset cider from our bar, perhaps...). Non-residents are very welcome to join us for dinner too - booking is essential.

Relax in our comfortable, thoughtfully-designed ensuite bedrooms (with big comfy beds) or in our cosy guest sitting room.

Explore - whether you're planning on walking, cycling, biking or driving, Exmoor House at Wheddon Cross makes an ideal base for exploring Exmoor, Somerset and Devon. There are some great walks and bike rides starting from our door.

Celebrate in style or have a get-together with friends with our house parties package: book exclusive use of Exmoor House for a group of up to 12 people.

Exmoor is a great place for walking, cycling and exploring. During your short break at Exmoor House there are plenty of opportunities to get out and about... and to work up an appetite for our excellent food. Of course, if you don't want to walk or cycle, Exmoor offers plenty of other activities and interesting places to visit. Or you could just relax and take it easy.

Exmoor, one of Britain’s best-kept secrets, can be summed up in one word: beautiful. Two-thirds in Somerset and one third in Devon, it is one of the smallest of our NationalView near Exmoor House Parks and has an amazing variety of scenery. Beautifully bleak moorland combines with intimate wooded valleys or ‘combes’ to offer fantastic walking country. A unique feature of Exmoor is that the moors meet the sea in several places, most famously at Lynmouth. From Exmoor's highest point, Dunkery Beacon (near Wheddon Cross, the home of Exmoor House), there are superb views of the Avill Valley running down to Dunster and the Bristol Channel on one side and wild moorland on the other.

Exmoor's dark skies make it a great place for astronomers, and for people who simply enjoy stargazing. There's very little light pollution here, so it's much easier to see the Milky Way and to view events like meteor showers and eclipses. There is currently a bid for Exmoor to be England's first international Dark Sky Reserve.

One of the most beautiful parts of Exmoor is the Holnicote Estate, owned by the National Trust, with fine heather moorland, five miles of wild and dramatic Atlantic coastline, picturesque farms and cottages and a glorious patch of ancient woodland around Horner.

You might also be lucky enough to see some of the area's great range of wildlife. For example the Exmoor pony, the nearest breed we have to the original wild horses of Europe, or red deer, England's largest wild animals, which have lived on Exmoor since prehistoric times. Buzzards often soar overhead.

Unlike some National Parks, Exmoor never gets too crowded with walkers, and in the quieter areas you could well walk all day without seeing a soul.

Whichever way you go, whether on foot, by bike, public transport or driving, there is wonderful scenery. Interesting places to visit on Exmoor (all of which you can get to very easily from Exmoor House) include Exford, Simonsbath, Tarr Steps, Withypool, Winsford, Dulverton, Porlock, Dunster... the list goes on.

But Exmoor House at Wheddon Cross is also ideally situated for exploring The Brendon Hills, which connect Exmoor proper and the Quantocks - well worth a visit.the old Mineral Line, Brendon HillsThis area of gently rolling countryside, stretching from near Bishops Lydeard in the east to Wheddon Cross in the west, falls within the Exmoor National Park boundary and, like Exmoor itself, provides great walking and touring country.