Bed and Breakfast Porlock - Wednesday, 18 June 2008
Wilsham Farm is situated near to Porlock in Exmoor. Porlock is a quiet coastal village 5 miles from Minehead. The village is adjacent to a nature reserve and Hawkcombe leads for three miles towards high and open moorland. Our B and B allows you to remain close to the region around Porlock and gives you access day by day to stunning scenery for horse riding and hiking.Porlock isn't short of historic monuments. The Church of St Dubricius dates all the way back from the 13th century. Although the spire was damaged in a storm it is still beautiful to view and is a grade I listed building as accorded by English Heritage.
It is often said that the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who lived nearby at Nether Stowey (between Bridgwater and Minehead), and William Wordsworth (who lived nearby at Alfoxden) would often roam the hills and coast on late night strolls. This led to local rumours that they were spying for the French. The Government sent an agent to investigate, but found they were, "mere poets". Their walks are celebrated by the Coleridge Way which ends in Porlock.
