It's not just the beach that entertains visitors to the coastal town of Minehead.
Food festival
Eat: Minehead is held a couple of times a year in Minehead, down The Avenue. It is one of the many successful eat festivals that are now held across the region and celebrates local products and producers. Organisers bring the very best West Country food and drink producers and artisans together to markets in town centres across Somerset, Devon, Dorset, South Gloucestershire and Bristol.
Blenheim Gardens
Blenheim Gardens (maintained and run by Somerset West and Taunton council) is ideally situated in the centre of Minehead and covers nearly 2.5 hectares of parkland. Created in the 1920s it is now a mature, attractive and sheltered haven, popular with residents and visitors. The park provides spring and summer bedding displays, a wide range of trees, shrubs and perennials which thrive in the mild seaside climate.
Choo choo
Hop on a train at West Somerset Railway’s Minehead station and explore the area by steam.
The historic steam locomotives, coaches and wagons are linked by a 20 mile scenic journey and are run by volunteers with a love for train travel.
Tee off
Minehead and West Somerset Golf Club was founded in 1882 and is said to be Somerset's oldest golf club, still playing on the original course, and one of the oldest golf clubs in the South West and England. It is open all year round.
The Avenue
The Avenue is the place to go for tea and cake or retail therapy. Try Apple Tree Tea Rooms for delicious homemade cakes, cheese topped crumpets or local whortleberry jam.
And a visit to the recently opened branch of Flapjakery is a must. These award-winning flapjacks are to die for, with flavours such as millionaire’s flapjack and cherry Bakewell flapjack amongst the moreish options.
