4/17/18
Started our day in
Bruton (South from Batheaston down A361) with breakfast at the Chapel
restaurant and boutique hotel.
After a quick walk around Bruton, we moved on to Wincanton to check out a cool bakery there
Continued
on (south to the A303) to our destination National Trust Property, Montacute
House, in Montacute. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montacute_House
This Elizabethan
manor house has been in the Phelips family since 1598 to 1927, when the manor
was acquired by the National Trust.
Edward Phelips, a
successful barrister, was the main prosecutor in the Gunpowder Plot trials.
Well tended gardens
and an Orangery were also on the property; managed by National Trust gardeners
and local volunteers
