Coleridge Cottage, located in the beautiful charming village of Nether Stowey you can stroll along the footsteps of the poet along the Coleridge Way as far as Lynmouth on Exmoor with a small diversion you can follow to visit the hilly mound which is all that remains of the Norman Stowey Castle.
Wills Neck is Somerset’s highest point, with views over Exmoor, the Mendips, the Blackdowns, and Wales across the Bristol Channel. Keep an eye out for wild ponies. Below the summit, steep wooded slopes with streams at the bottom, teeming with birdsong, and communities with manor houses and splendid churches can be found.
Coleridge lived in the 17th-century cottage for three years, starting in 1797. Coleridge’s best works, such As the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Frost at Midnight, The Nightingale, Cristabel, and This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison, were written during his time in Somerset. Both Coleridge and Wordsworth are regarded as pivotal figures in the creation of the Romantic literary movement.
Coleridge Cottage has a long and interesting history, beginning as a simple Georgian house and ending as ‘Moore’s Coleridge Cottage Inn’ during the Victorian era. You may now explore portions of the cottage never before exposed to the public, as well as fascinating cottage rooms that have been restored as if the Coleridge family had just walked out, thanks to a large redevelopment project in 2011.
Due to the small rooms and short corridors, the cottage is not ideal for wheelchairs.
