The Barn at Lower Farm, Shepton Montague
Bed +/- Breakfast
The freedom of self-catering with the comfort of B&B
Stay for 2 nights or a week - with or without breakfast provided
Home-produced, local, and organic food
Crisp, cotton sheets and downy duvets
The view from the refectory table is of rural tranquillity: hens scratching in the orchard, and Charles Dowding's inspiring vegetable garden.
The village of Shepton Montague lies down meandering Somerset lanes that almost
defy sat-nav, and where the only street lighting is the moon. The population
has been slowly dwindling since the Black Death.
"Turning over a new leaf" - Matthew Fort on a pioneering salad grower in Somerset, The Guardian, Saturday 2 June 2007
"There was something of The Good Life about all this. So good, in fact, that I was tempted to book into the B&B so I could indulge in a breakfast of eggs, apple juice, crunchy cereal, yogurt and home-baked bread smeared with unpasteurised butter and decorated with home-made jam. But no, I had to get back to write this column. The sacrifices I make." Read the full article...
Lower Farm is also featured in Alastair Sawday’s
British Bed & Breakfast, for garden lovers “The Good Life in the depths of Somerset” and
Go Slow England (Alastair Sawday).
Susie Dowding, Lower Farm, Shepton Montague, Wincanton, Somerset, BA9 8JG
Email: enquiries@lowerfarm.org.uk
Tel: 01749 812253