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From Somerset to Xanadu He only lived in Nether Stowey for three years, but Samuel Taylor Coleridge found inspiration for two of his greatest poems in and around this village at the foot of the Quantock Hills.

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 19990814
Author:Donald Hiscock

We arrived in the Quantocks with an eclectic assortment of literature to while away anticipated rainy evenings huddled inside our tent. My younger son was halfway through an Enid Blyton Famous Five novel, his older brother had brought a large tome on UFOs and I had packed a slim volume of Coleridge's poetry.

Our destination was the Somerset village of Nether Stowey and the cottage that Coleridge lived in for three years from 1796. The cottage is now run by the National Trust and a leisurely amble through the four small rooms that are open to the public shows that many changes have been made ...

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