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Again this year, the West Withy Farm telescopes will be with Seb Jay at Dunster by Candlelight. In 2014, the moon dominated the night sky for Candlelight, illuminating Dunster Castle and thrilling over 500 Candlelight visitors who took the opportunity to look at the moon through the two telescopes set up in Dunster Village Garden. For 2015, Seb […]
Read MoreExmoor self catering cottages’ hidden view re-emerges. This view of Haddon Hill, Exmoor from West Withy Farms’ self catering cottages had been increasingly hidden in recent years. But last week, tall pine trees in the distance were felled and all was revealed again. Haddon Hill sits at the southern end of Wimbleball Lake and offers West Withy Farm guests fishing, […]
Read MoreAt last, we have installed the bridge over the cascade between our two lakes in the grounds of the Exmoor self catering cottages at West Withy Farm. The four stone bases to carry the feet of the bridge were installed in autumn 2014. During the spring, we have painted the bridge an eye catching shade of red. This […]
Read MoreCaptured at last!! – a kingfisher photographed at West Withy Farm lake. It has been a bit of a ‘cat and mouse’ game to see and photograph the kingfisher sat on a branch with a fish in its mouth. It is not a great photograph – the skills (and also the equipment) of a sports […]
Read MoreSeb Jay of Dark Sky Telescope Hire and author of Exmoor Dark Skies gave a stargazing skytour for guests staying in the self-catering, holiday cottages at West Withy Farm on Exmoor last night. Guests began at 10pm. by viewing the moon though Seb’s telescope. This was followed by a tour of Saturn in the southwest sky using the telescope’s […]
Read MoreLorena decided, Sunday on a deep clean for the Upton Cottage oven – ‘there is just too short a time to do a deep oven clean on a Saturday changeover day’. Two hours later, the inside of the oven was looking – well, ‘sparkling’. With a smile of satisfaction at a job well done, Lorena […]
Read MoreThe West Withy Farm swallows have been very late arriving back from over-wintering in Africa this year. In 2014, our swallows returned in mid April. We had 15 breeding pairs return to West Withy Farm before our daffodils had come into flower – a very strange sight. This year, our swallow have returned much later […]
Read MoreWelcome to our new website which will go live towards the end of May 2015. A new booking section with online payment option will be introduced for this website shortly. Please bear with us while we finalise the new booking / payment section and sort out all the teething problems there are bound to be […]
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