A well designed modern environment for appreciating art and the historic material. It has a café with outside seating and is within the beautiful grounds of the castle itself
Super gardens to visit..nice mix of formal and informal.
A lovely well kept garden, split into different sections and eras. Helpful friend staff. Lovely coffee and cake selection.
One of the most beautiful gardens I've ever been to. Different styles coexisting together, almost no people, great for a good walk.
Hestercombe is a lovely place, well worth a visit. The gardens are stunning and the house has lots of history too!
Friendly and professional service at all times. Excellent knowledge of the market. Booked 2 cruises and all paperwork was comprehensively checked. Highly recommend for hassle free travel.
Excellent place to visit. Beautiful gardens and very interesting house.
Interest from prehistoric to modern times in Somerset. Well laid out,accessible, very interesting and informative. Well worth 2-3 hour visit. Suits all ages.
It's well laid out with lots of interesting pieces
As many of the reviews here have already said, it's a beautiful place to visit. Lovely gardens with many interesting features. All the more so because it was almost lost …
Visited today. The house grounds and gardens are spellbindingly beautiful. We had coffee and a cake in the café and both were very good indeed. The house has gone through …
HESTERCOMBE HOUSE AND GARDENS Situated just outside my home town of Taunton, this is well worth a visit. The original gardens were later influenced by Gertrude Jekyll, who laid out …
I've known about Hestercombe since restoration started but this was my first visit. Despite it currently being in administration, there was no sign of neglect at all. Volunteers and staff …
From reading reviews I wasn't sure what to expect but was very pleasantly surprised. On arriving we were made to feel very welcome and given a great explanation of the …
My wife and I have booked with Dave Criddle Travel for many years. Jo and Joel are both helpful and friendly. Sometimes the standard package is not ideal and with …
The staff are friendly and welcoming and very informative and helpful. The admission fee is reasonable. We spent a couple of hours wandering round the well kept tranquil gardens and …
Things have definitely improved at Hestercombe. We walk regularly in the lovely gardens and always enjoy a coffee and cake in the restaurant/cafe. The service in the cafe is much …
Joel booked us a RIVIERA trip down the Rhone and extra days in Avignon in an excellent hotel not far from the rail station. All help was laid on at …
Visited on Saturday and really enjoyed it. The museum is free, interesting, and well worth a visit. The exhibits are engaging and informative, and I'd happily recommend it to others. …
Very interesting Staff were informative and helpful Free entry but had to pay for exhibition but it was a very nice experience
Very popular with kids and their guardians. Someone must have spent ages and ages cutting out bits of paper for making Gruffalo masks. Well done to them. Nice cafe adjacent
Great place to explore with children. Still well worth a visit, and the cafe has seriously upped their game!
Lovely gardens as always, havent been for years so was very to happy to see everything looking so lush and healthy!
We really liked it here. The way it is set up is very good. From Roman right through to the making of somerset. Lots of historic detail about the courts …
We've been with Dave Criddle for almost 40 years. We've never had a problem. The staff always go out of their way to help. Thank you very much.
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