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BED & BREAKFAST

The house, restored in 1861 as a working farm, once again offers rest and comfort to the traveller. At the farm house your hosts, The Bishop family, offer a warm welcome and provide bed and breakfast for the traveller or tourist. The tastefully decorated bedrooms are scattered between the main farm house and two other lovingly restored barn conversions.  Combine this with a traditional English breakfast and you will soon understand why many guests return time after time. There is a laundry room available for guests complete with washing machine, tumble dryer and ironing facilities. All are powered through a coin operated meter. THE HISTORY OF THE HOUSE quoted from the Bath Evening Time of 1920! At Tog Hill, near Bath, there is a farmhouse occupied by Mr. Nelson Walker which, centuries ago, was a resting house for pilgrims journeying from Malmesbury to Glastanbury Abbey. Mr. Walker told me that before it became a farmhouse it was a public house. It is possible that Joseph of Arimathaea stopped here with his band of missionaries. The house has been rebuilt, but part of the old building remains, including the old monks' kitchen and brew-house. In the yard is a well, dug by the monks through 90 feet of solid rock. At various stages down the workmen have cut names into walls. If it were possible to turn the shaft horizontally one could drive a wagon and horses through it. Tog Hill is still a picturesque spot. It stands on the brow of a hill from where, on a clear day, it is possible to see the Welsh Mountains plainly. Mr Watson says that if he can see the lighthouse in the Bristol Channel he knows that bad weather is brewing. Alongside the farmhouse runs the old coaching road from Bristol to London, now overgrown with grass and weeds. Tales are told of the highwaymen who used it frequent it. Mr Watson told me that the hill nearby was a terror to the horses in winter. On one occasion six horses had to be slaughtered there.