Tariff 2009 Low season 3 nights from £247 7 nights from £379 High Season 3 nights from £409 7 nights from £623 Bed linen, towels and electricity included Heating charged at £1 per hour.

BED & BREAKFAST AT SPILLERS FARM

Spillers Farm offers bed and breakfast in beautiful surroundings – all rooms have gorgeous views as well as flat screen digital TVs, towels, toiletries and a generous room compliments tray. As a working smallholding we offer bacon and sausages from our own rare-breed pigs in our gourmet breakfasts. Room rates start from £30 per person.

Primrose Cottage

Situated in some of East Devon's most spectacular countryside Primrose Cottage is an extremely spacious, self-contained cottage with its own garden. Safe and private, Primrose Cottage is perfect for a relaxing holiday or short break, and is ideally placed to explore the countryside and the coast, being just a few miles from the lovely resort of Lyme Regis, a fantastic base for fossil collecting and beach combing.

The single storey centrally-heated cottage is comfortably furnished and hastwo large bedrooms, one double, one with twin beds, for which bed linen is provided, a family bathroom (towels provided), separate shower room and a WC, plus a fully fitted kitchen with a fridge, microwave, electric double oven and washing machine. The large lounge is equipped with TV, DVD player, video and Freeview box. From the lounge sliding patio doors lead to the sunny, south-facing garden with its own BBQ.

The cottage is an ideal place for a family holiday as it is situated within 12 acres of fields, including one with its own lake home to our resident flock of ducks. The fields are flat and fully enclosed, so there is plenty of room for children to run and play in a safe environment. Well behaved pets are also welcome. Guests are assured the warmest of welcomes from our own Golden Retriever Merryck.

We would ask that guests refrain from smoking inside the cottage and dispose of their cigarette ends thoughtfully if smoking outside.

The Area

Set in An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Spillers Farm is near the delightful village of Musbury, one of the Axe Valley's lesser known villages, recently the new home of TV chef Hugh Fernley Whittingstall’s River Cottage HQ. Walkers might enjoy the spectacular view of the valley and River Axe estuary from the top of Musbury Hill, which is a carpet of bluebells in the spring. It is a great place to watch the sunset and buzzards can often be seen soaring below. Nearby Axmouth, a pretty village of thatched cottages, good pubs and a popular harbour is also a bird watchers' paradise. Herons, waders, kingfishers and egrets are regularly seen on the estuary. For those who prefer to fish, trout fishing lakes are less than 2 miles away.

Within a few miles drive is the charming fishing village of Beer; fresh fish and crab can still be bought on the shingle beach. Fishing trips and boat hire are available. A tour of the stunning Quarry Caves where stone was quarried for many English cathedrals is highly recommended. Next to Beer is Branscombe, reputed to be the longest village in the West Country. Full of "chocolate box" thatched cottages with hanging baskets and colourful gardens, the village also boasts one of the best pubs in the area - The Masons' Arms. The Branscombe cliffs are part of the Dorset and East Devon World Heritage Coast (Jurassic Coast) and it is possible to walk the cliffs from Seaton to Lyme Regis following the South West Coastal Path. Spillers Farm is ideally placed for walkers, with the East Devon Way accessible from a lane behind our lake leading to charming villages or the historic market town of Colyton, where it is possible to board the Colyton-Seaton Tram which passes through two nature reserves. Colyton itself has interesting shops, an antiques centre, character inns and an historic church.

Local attractions include The Donkey Sanctuary just outside the nearby regency seaside town of Sidmouth which is home to around 500 rescued donkeys. Set in unspoilt farmland and countryside, visitors return time and again to meander among the donkeys and absorb the serene and relaxed surroundings. Younger holiday makers might enjoy a trip to Countryside Park Farway, East Devon's favourite farm based tourist attraction, where you can feed the baby lambs, calves and goats and many other animals or the Pecorama at Beer featuring the Beer Heights Light Railway, considered by many to be the finest 71/4 inch gauge railway in Britain.