Box Hedge Farm Bed & Breakfast - Coalpit Heath, South West

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Box Hedge Farm

Owner: Address: Coalpit Heath, Bristol Coalpit Heath, South West , BS36 2UW Phone: 1454250786 Fax: 01454 250786		Email Innkeeper: Contact B&B Direct link to the web site: http://www.bed-breakfast-bristol.com Review B&B: Review and Vote this Inn

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We also offer self catering accommodation for weekend breaks. Close to Bristol, Bath, Yate, Chipping Sodbury, Westerleigh, Pucklechurch, Winterbourne, Emersons Green and Frampton Cotterell.

We offer a range of single, double, twin and family rooms, standard and en-suite for bed and breakfast accommodation in the main farmhouse and adjacent converted barns and stables. A friendly family atmosphere is assured.
A full English breakfast is included in the tariff. Lighter appetites and vegetarian diets can be catered for on request. The bedrooms in the main farmhouse are large and spacious with colour TV and tea and coffee making facilities available in all rooms. The converted barns have their own kitchen and lounge areas where tea and coffee making facilities are available. All bedrooms have their own colour TV and central heating. A pay phone is available on site and there is good parking for all. Pets are welcome by arrangement. We have a no smoking policy within all buildings. Please note that we do not cater for "Stag" or "Hen" parties.

The Stables can sleep up to four people, The Gables up to four people, The Forge up to seven people, The Barn up to eight people and The Lodge up to eleven people. All rooms have central heating.

Area Activities

Less than half an hour from Box Hedge Farm is Bath, known since the Roman times for its medicinal waters. It reached its peak of prosperity about the end of the eighteenth century when it was the country's most popular watering place. It is the best preserved Georgian city in Britain, attracting students of architecture from all over the world to see notably the King's Circus and the glorious Royal Crescent. There are many more interesting sites to see as well as superb shopping and numerous antiques dealers.

Roman Baths - The Roman Baths is one of the best preserved Roman sites north of the Alps. Adjacent to the hot springs that feed the Baths there was a major temple dedicated to the goddess Sulis Minerva. In Roman times people came to worship and pray to the goddess when seeking a cure for their ailments, before immersing themselves in the sacred waters that flowed through the suite of baths. On the terrace overlooking the Great Bath are carved statues of Roman emperors and governors of Roman Britain. When the weather is fine the terrace overlooking the largest of the Roman Baths is open and gives you a bird's eye view of the bath below. From this vantage point you can also appreciate how much the site extends underground beyond the limits of the present day buildings on the surface. The Bath in the picture on the left is less than quarter of the site, which visitors can see from three different levels. The sacred spring (on the right) is a special place where 1,170,000 litres of hot mineral water rise each day at a temperature of 46 degrees centigrade. In Roman times a phenomenon such as this was beyond human understanding and so was clearly the work of the Gods. Water from the sacred spring fed through a narrow channel to the Roman Baths and entered the Great Bath beneath a diving stone. Water was drawn from the top of the spring, which the Romans had enclosed to make a reservoir. This ensured that water entering the baths was free of sediment churned up by the great volume of rising water.
Surplus hot water, not needed for the Roman Baths, flows out into a Roman drain that takes it to the River Avon a few hundred metres away. The arch and the drain are perfectly preserved and still function nearly 2,000 years after they were built. No visit to the Roman Baths is complete without a taste of the famous hot spa water. It can only be sampled at the spa fountain in the Grand Pump Room which looks out over the Sacred Spring and Roman Baths.

Bath Abbey - Discover the history of the Abbey site, used continuously by Christians since Saxon times and opened to view by recent archaeology. The Vaults house a fascinating collection of items including Saxon and Norman stonework, a reconstruction of the great Norman cathedral and a vivid presentation of the dream of Bishop Oliver King who restored the decayed church in the fifteenth century.

Pulteney Bridge - Pulteney Bridge is one of the most admired buildings in Bath. It is one of only three bridge

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