Karen’s guidebook
Gardens with Restaurants
Beautiful National Trust House with lovely gardens and restaurant
95 locals recommend
Barrington Court
Beautiful National Trust House with lovely gardens and restaurant
Hauser & Wirth Somerset
Dropping LaneGreat garden with gallery and restaurant
Beautiful garden with plant nursery, shop and restaurant.
60 locals recommend
Forde Abbey House and Gardens
Beautiful garden with plant nursery, shop and restaurant.
Favourite pubs and restaurants
Barrington Boar
Excellent food and great service!
The Bell at Broadway
Broadway RoadGreat pub with pizza oven open all day!
The Five Dials Inn
Hanning RoadGood friendly local pub
Brilliant local produce shop with Train Carriage restaurant
26 locals recommend
The Trading Post Farm Shop
Brilliant local produce shop with Train Carriage restaurant
The Club House
Beach RoadGreat fish restaurant near the sea
Lord Poulett Arms
High StreetLovely old building loads of character and great food
Lovely pub on the road to Lyme Regis, perfect stop for early supper on your way back from the sea!
29 locals recommend
The Tytherleigh Arms
Lovely pub on the road to Lyme Regis, perfect stop for early supper on your way back from the sea!
Brilliant restaurant not far from the sea on a working farm. The food is country style Italian with a wood fired oven serving delicious pizza and grilled meats.
15 locals recommend
The Parlour
Brilliant restaurant not far from the sea on a working farm. The food is country style Italian with a wood fired oven serving delicious pizza and grilled meats.
Great food in a modern setting! Local produce prepared in a contemporary style.
12 locals recommend
HOLM Somerset
28 Saint James's StreetGreat food in a modern setting! Local produce prepared in a contemporary style.
Neighbourhoods
Lovely seaside town plenty of shops and restaurants sandy beach and coastal walks
326 locals recommend
Lyme Regis
Lovely seaside town plenty of shops and restaurants sandy beach and coastal walks
Traditional Seaside town with a shingle beach, lots of coastal walks. Busy harbour with Fish and Chip shops
167 locals recommend
West Bay
Traditional Seaside town with a shingle beach, lots of coastal walks. Busy harbour with Fish and Chip shops
West Bexington
Long shingle beach with a restaurant close to the beach
Burton Bradstock
Lovely Beach with The Hive restaurant next to the beach
Charmouth
Good beach sandy/pebbles with a fossil shop
Pretty hamstone village with a pub The New Inn and Perry's Cider Mill has a restaurant, a great place to walk to from The Loft!
Dowlish Wake
Pretty hamstone village with a pub The New Inn and Perry's Cider Mill has a restaurant, a great place to walk to from The Loft!
Ilminster is our local town, with many shops, a post office, two supermarkets, bakers, butchers, chemists, whole food shop, pubs and restaurants.
29 locals recommend
Ilminster
Ilminster is our local town, with many shops, a post office, two supermarkets, bakers, butchers, chemists, whole food shop, pubs and restaurants.
Alice Temperley fashion designer clothes shop selling new and sample clothes there is also a bakery/coffee shop and a cocktail bar only open Thursday to Saturday
7 locals recommend
Temperley Somerset
Alice Temperley fashion designer clothes shop selling new and sample clothes there is also a bakery/coffee shop and a cocktail bar only open Thursday to Saturday
Food scene
Local Cider Mill with a cider museum, shop selling food cider and gifts and a restaurant
16 locals recommend
Perry's Cider Mills
Local Cider Mill with a cider museum, shop selling food cider and gifts and a restaurant
Millers Farm Shop
Gammons HillGreat farm shop near Axminster
The Kitchen on Silver Street
14 Silver StreetWellness and Yoga
Jordans Courtyard has a wellness centre shop and yoga classes.
There is also a cafe/restaurant there
Jordans Courtyard
Jordans Courtyard has a wellness centre shop and yoga classes.
There is also a cafe/restaurant there