CAMPSITE RULES
Here at Splatt Farm, we don't want to create unnecessary and restrictive rules. However, in order to ensure the happiness of all of our guests and neighbours, we ask that all guests follow the following:
1. Once unpacked and set up, please park your cars at the top end of the field near the entrance. No cars may be parked on or near camping pitches.
2. All fires, BBQs and stoves must be within the fire pit area on your pitch. Wood can be purchased on-site and must NEVER be taken from hedgerows or woodpiles that are created by our team for animal habitat.
3. No amplified music is allowed on site and every effort must be made to ensure a peaceful and enjoyable stay for all guests. Any guests creating a disturbance may be asked to leave without any recourse to refund.
4. This is an eco-friendly site. All recyclable rubbish must be separated and placed in the appropriate bin and all non-recyclable waste must be taken off-site with you.
5. Check-in is from 2pm and check-out is by 12pm (10am for bell tents.)
7. Your camping pitch must be left as you found it.
8. Day visitors must be pre-arranged with the owners. Day visitor’s charges are £4 per adult, £2 per child for up-to 6 hours. Any visitors staying after 8pm will be charged full rate.
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MEDITATION GARDEN
In the centre of the field, we have a newly created seating area, pond and aromatherapy bench for quiet reflection and meditation.
You are welcome to visit and enjoy this area during your stay.
PERMACULTURE
MOUNTAIN BIKING,
WALKING AND HORSE RIDING
The Quantock Hills in Somerset are wonderful for walking, biking and horse riding; and their captivating views of the Bristol Channel, Wales, the Mendip and Blackdown Hills, Exmoor and the Somerset Levels inspired one of our greatest poets.
Outstanding beauty
We care for parts of the Quantock Common, which is a mosaic of heathland hill tops and valley woodlands. Long Stone Hill lies at the north-east end of the Quantock Hills. It's an area of outstanding natural beauty, rising from the village of Holford. Take in fantastic views across the hills and look out for red deer on the adjacent hill tops, and the ancient oak pollards in Willoughby Cleeve.
Broomfield Hill is a gently sloping, open, round-topped hill at the southern end of the Quantocks, and very near to Fyne Court. You can sometimes see Highland cattle and their teddy bear-like calves grazing here.
Wonderful for walks
Beacon Hill and Bicknoller Hill are both fantastic walking spots in the north-west corner of the Quantocks, above the village of West Quantoxhead.
Look out for Trendle Ring, an Iron Age hill-fort on Bicknoller Hill. Both hills are also great places to hear the nightjar, a nocturnal bird, on a balmy summer evening.
Woodlands Hill and Shervage Wood, adjacent to the A39 on the west of the hills, are full of myth and mystery. Legend has it, the woods were once home to Gurt Wurm, a large dragon. He would come out of hiding to eat sheep and sometimes even people.
A fascinating history
Heading south off the main common are Great and Marrow Hills. A large hill-top Bronze Age burial cairn looks over the vale towards Exmoor and the Brendon Hills.
Running alongside is the Drove Road, a fabulous beech-lined avenue. It was originally used as a traders' route, leading along the ridge of the Quantocks to the port at Watchet. The route was especially useful in the winter when the Somerset Levels were impassable.
A place to inspire
Samuel Taylor Coleridge lived in the Quantocks for some time. He took inspiration from their beauty for some of his finest poems. He wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Kahn while living here. You can learn more about Coleridge at his former home, Coleridge Cottage and follow in his footsteps along the Coleridge Way, which passes through the Quantock hills.