Warning to those visiting Bridgwater: Close it and lock it! Advice from. guesthouse manager in Bridgwater. Also, don’t approach the Hinckley Point nuclear power station or the commandos from the nearby RAF base won’t bother landing their helicopter, they will rappel down onto you. Manager was a good talker: UK annual spend per primary student £3000, spend in private schools £10,000. Result predictable (he was primary school governor for two years).
Anyway – Poltimor Inn in North Molton – great place, excellent staff and attitude, park bikes under cover near the empty kegs, big English breakfast included.
Poltimor downside – its at the bottom of a 400m climb onto Exmoor.
Exmoor not wild at all, hedgerows and cropping to the top. Be a miserable cold, wet and windy place in winter which would be six months of the year.
Lovely coffee cake at Simonsbath then another 400 m climb to the road out again. Saw Euroforestry finishing a harvest of (?) white pine on top of moor.
Christine had to stop at Bishops Lydeard Manor and the 14th century church nearby (see photo).
A last 100m hill and we were in Bridgwater.
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