Four-star Three MICHELIN Keys Bruton, just under an hour by car, Bath
The Newt in Somerset
A Georgian house of local limestone in Somerset farmland, with 30 acres of gardens, a working cyder cellar, a reconstructed Roman villa and a farmyard turned into rooms.
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- MICHELIN
- Three Keys
- Estate
- About 2,000 acres, with 30 acres of gardens
- Opened
- 2019
- From the airport
- About an hour from Bristol, our estimate
The hotel
Hadspen House and the Hobhouses.
William Player bought a farmhouse at Hadspen in 1687 and spent about a decade enlarging it. In 1785 Henry Hobhouse bought the house with 717 acres, and his family kept it for more than two centuries. In the 1960s Penelope Hobhouse remade its curved walled kitchen garden, the Parabola, and opened it to visitors in 1970. The house, of local limestone, is now listed Grade II*.
In 2013 the South African couple Koos Bekker and Karen Roos bought the estate. They opened The Newt in 2019, with rooms in the house and in the old farmyard of cyder mills, barns and grain stores. The estate is a working farm again, around 2,000 acres in all, and the apples go into the estate's own cyder. A reconstruction of a Roman villa stands on the estate too.
- The gardens Thirty acres of formal and productive gardens around the house, with the Parabola, orchards and lakes beyond.
- The spa An indoor and outdoor pool, sauna, steam room, hammam and salt chamber, with treatments using plants from the physic garden.
- Cyder and bees A working cyder cellar and mill, and Beezantium, the estate's honeybee colony.
Dining
From the gardens to the table.
Restaurants as listed by the estate. Shown for information.
- The Botanical Rooms Modern British, seasonal The hotel's dining room, listed in the MICHELIN Guide
- Farmyard Kitchen Dishes to share Produce from the estate gardens
- The Garden Café Lunch Over the kitchen garden and the Parabola
Recognition
Awards and listings.
- Three MICHELIN Keys Since the first selection
- Condé Nast Traveller Readers' Choice Awards No. 1 UK hotel outside London
Good to know
Before you go.
- Arrival Check-in from 3 pm, check-out by 11 am. Two or three nights are recommended.
- Children Welcome, with cots, roll-out beds, adjoining rooms and babysitting. Ask the hotel which rooms suit your family.
- Pets Not accepted, except assistance dogs, because deer and fowl roam the grounds.
- Getting about Bikes and buggies carry guests between Hadspen House and the Farmyard.
Getting there
Flying to Bath.
Bristol Airport, for scheduled flights and business jets, is about an hour away by car, our estimate. Heathrow, for long-haul flights, is roughly two and a half hours by road by our estimate. Bath itself is just under an hour away.
- Dublin 45 min
- Paris 55 min
- Edinburgh 1 h 00
- Geneva 1 h 30
- New York 7 h 25 long-range jet
Questions
What guests ask first.
- How many MICHELIN Keys does The Newt in Somerset have?
- Three, the highest level, held since the MICHELIN Guide's first Key selection.
- Can I bring my dog to The Newt?
- No. Only assistance dogs are accepted, because deer and fowl live freely on the estate.
- How far is The Newt from Bath?
- Just under an hour by car. The estate lies at Hadspen, beside the town of Bruton in Somerset.
- Can SkyCourtage arrange the flight to Bath?
- Yes. We arrange Business and First Class seats on scheduled airlines and private jet charter to Bath, with one final price, our margin included. The hotel is booked with the hotel or through our booking partner.
Also in Bath
Other hotels worth the trip.
- Lucknam Park A country house in some 500 acres of park, with a spa, riding and Hywel Jones's starred restaurant; three MICHELIN Keys.
- The Royal Crescent Hotel & Spa Two MICHELIN Keys and 45 rooms on the Crescent, with an acre of secluded garden behind and a spa in a Georgian bath house.
- Whatley Manor Hotel and Spa Two MICHELIN Keys, and home to The Dining Room with its MICHELIN star.
- The Gainsborough Bath Spa The only hotel in Bath drawing on the thermal spring, which fills the pools of its Spa Village; one MICHELIN Key.
- The Bath Priory Two joined Georgian houses with 33 bedrooms, formal gardens, an outdoor pool and a L'Occitane spa; one MICHELIN Key.
- The Queensberry Hotel Four Georgian townhouses with the starred Olive Tree in the basement; one MICHELIN Key.
- Homewood A Georgian country house with an indoor-outdoor spa and the restaurant Olio; one MICHELIN Key.
- The Yard, Bath An eighteenth-century coaching inn dressed in fabrics by local designers; one MICHELIN Key.
Staying at The Newt in Somerset?
Book the room, then the flight.
Rates and availability come from the hotel itself. For the journey to Bath, a Business or First Class seat or an aircraft of your own: tell us the date and we come back with one final price, our margin included.
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