Hestercombe Gardens
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It's a gardeners garden. Step back in time.
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Excellent
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Went to Hestercombe today and spent a very enjoyable six hours walking around the grounds, garden and house.
Had lunch in The Stables Café. Lots of choice, good portions and good prices.
Everywhere we went the staff were excellent and café clean.
Had lunch in The Stables Café. Lots of choice, good portions and good prices.
Everywhere we went the staff were excellent and café clean.
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Absolutely five stars. Wonderful place to explore and take your dogs too. Lovely gardens and coffee cakes etc and nothing I could moan about!
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Went to Hestercombe today. Had an excellent day. Nearly six hours passed by in a flash. We first of all walked around the garden using a map that we were given with our ticket. The map was a very good guide and gives all the paths and points of interest within the garden.
We then went to the 'Stable' Cafe. Plenty of choice both hot and cold meals, soup, and drinks. The cafe was clean, inviting and the staff agentive.
After lunch we walked around the Lutyens designed formal garden.
Lovely day, lovely staff.
We then went to the 'Stable' Cafe. Plenty of choice both hot and cold meals, soup, and drinks. The cafe was clean, inviting and the staff agentive.
After lunch we walked around the Lutyens designed formal garden.
Lovely day, lovely staff.
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Plenty of car parking. We enjoy walking to the far end of the Estate, listening to the birds and taking in the panoramas. The videos are very interesting and well worth watching. The formal gardens are beautiful, especially as the roses were in full bloom. We booked to go to the Column Restaurant for Sunday lunch and thoroughly enjoyed an extremely good main meal and dessert. This is silver service which made it very special. The waitresses were delightful and efficient. Highly recommend.
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Our third year of family membership and we keep getting more out of our time at Hestercombe.
Good place to visit for all ages
Not all areas are wheelchair accessible
Good place to visit for all ages
Not all areas are wheelchair accessible
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Very enjoyable stroll through these lovely gardens once more. Good selection of my favourite namiesa scented plants too. Well worth a visit.
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we took our grandchildren here , it was a lovely day out they have a nice cafe there that does cream teas
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Best scotch eggs ever
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Called in on a cycle ride for coffee and cake,
The usual national trust cafe,
Served by young ladies , very pleasant but no go in them at all,wondering around just like they have all the time in the world.
Mocha very nice, chocolate orange cake lovely. Visit had the edge taken off of it at the till by the charmless grumpy man expecting me to pay by contactless payment without even telling me how much I owed, when I pointed this out , I was told I should have been looking at the card reassert as it was on there,
Not impressed with him at all .
Very unprofessional by someone representing Hestercombe House
The usual national trust cafe,
Served by young ladies , very pleasant but no go in them at all,wondering around just like they have all the time in the world.
Mocha very nice, chocolate orange cake lovely. Visit had the edge taken off of it at the till by the charmless grumpy man expecting me to pay by contactless payment without even telling me how much I owed, when I pointed this out , I was told I should have been looking at the card reassert as it was on there,
Not impressed with him at all .
Very unprofessional by someone representing Hestercombe House
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Visited numerous times and the gardens are pretty, the walk pleasant and the environment nice. The open cafe/lunch area is nice to sit in and eat and though the food quality can be variable it is generally very good.
The column rooms however is a terrible let down. Water damaged ceilings that have been for ages, fluorescent strip lights on the ceiling and nasty looking seating. This is combined with sadly poor and uncompromising service.
It should be a gorgeous room, but sadly it just feels totally unloved.
Remove the strip lighting, tidy it up and show it some love. Then you’d have a place people would want to come back to.
The column rooms however is a terrible let down. Water damaged ceilings that have been for ages, fluorescent strip lights on the ceiling and nasty looking seating. This is combined with sadly poor and uncompromising service.
It should be a gorgeous room, but sadly it just feels totally unloved.
Remove the strip lighting, tidy it up and show it some love. Then you’d have a place people would want to come back to.
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The gardens and cafe lovely .dont bother at all with the house
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Despite the rain a lovely garden.
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Great gardens. Beautiful flowers. Nice restaurant. Good plants on sale
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The gardens are stunning and the staff are friendly.
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Enjoyed a walk around the gardens especially the formal garden. The house was a bit of a disappointment although there was an exhibition which was interesting. We have put off going before as it is quite expensive but had vouchers which made it value for money.
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Beautiful garden.
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Stunning and dog friendly!
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Very large, beautiful, well laid out gardens. Lots of walks to enjoy and trails to explore, especially the waterfall. Interesting informative boards in the indoor mill house. Art exhibition in the house was not to my taste. Nice snack in the stables cafe.
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Great coffee and cake, shame about the ban on the cycles in the courtyard. Bike park is not visible from the cafe and bikes are not insured if stolen unless you use a gold standard lock which weighs about 2 kg which no one uses as they are too heavy and cumbersome to cycle with. Would have been 5 stars otherwise.
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To be honest, it was more like going to a country park than a garden. The formal gardens where pleasant. However, lunch in the cafe was top notch.
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Only went to the cafe, lovely food
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Nice grounds with lots of follies a bit similar to Stourhead. Disappointing house as only a few rooms open as bookshop, restaurant etc.
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Nice gardens and walks with various stopping points. Has a cafe, shop and restaurant.
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