Cothay Manor And Gardens

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Historic house and gardens Five miles West of Wellington, hidden in the high-banked lanes of Somerset, lies Cothay, built at the end of the Wars of the Roses in 1485.
Virtually unchanged in 500 years, this sleeping beauty sits on the banks of
the river Tone within its twelve acres of magical Gardens. Privately owned,
it has been painstakingly restored and re-planted over the last 20 years by
well-known plants woman Mary-Anne Robb and her husband Alastair. In the
height of summer Cothay's gardens are a delight to the eye; the terrace is
adrift with Dierama and the Unicorn Walk abuzz with bees on the Napeta.
The Gardens, laid out in the 1920s, have been re-designed and replanted
within the original structure. Many garden rooms, each a garden in itself,
are set off a 200 yard yew walk. The fabulous back-drop to the gardens is
the arboretum, where specimen trees have been planted in the last 20 years
surrounding a small lake which holds many different types of insects and
supply food and water to over 40 species of birds